On March 30 we joined ImageKind and have been uploading images ever since. The first sale came during the third week. Yesterday we received the following email from ImageKind:
“Congratulations! You have been selected as a Featured Artist of the Week at Imagekind!
We have selected an image from your gallery to be placed on the homepage of Imagekind.com, along with a short artist’s bio, which links to your Imagekind profile. This will stay in place for at least a week and sometimes, dependent on its popularity, may continue in place for another week. This cycle usually takes place on each Wednesday. You don’t need to do anything, you’re already on the homepage! However, this is a great time to update your galleries with any new work and to ensure that all your relevant details are in place.
It is our privilege to showcase your work as being outstanding amidst a field of so many other great artists and photographers. Our success is entirely about you, our creative community. Please tell your colleagues, friends and family about the #1 place on the web to discover and purchase original art.
Have a great day and we wish you continued success!
Cheers,
Travis Young”
Currently we have Animals, Birds, Butterflies, Flowers, Tropical Fish, Washington DC, San Diego, San Francisco, New Orleans picture galleries.
What is your favorite flower? We have had roses, orchids, daylilies, and pansy for years. Last spring a customer asked for daisy. We had the pictures of several dasies from botanical gardens, but, never put them on Cafe Press.
Take a look at dasies on a women’s pink t-shirt. Visit the shop Daisy Flower Power and choose the daisy on all our other products.
Leave a comment and tell us your favorite flower. 
Want a change from your basic black tee? How about trying our new cardinal t-shirt? All kinds of designs are available on the soft beautiful dark red t-shirt.
Flowers at Daylily Flower Power, tropical fish at Fish Lover Gifts, Florida themes at Florida Gifts, and Irish names at Irish T-Shirts & Gifts .
Several hundred images are made on slide film and digital camera flash cards during every photo trip. Today we worked reviewing and organizing the images made in Atlanta, Georgia.
A side benefit is reliving the experience represented in each photograph. But, we have a magazine photobuyer waiting for the images. In this case, it means scanning the slides and burning a CD.
Below are 2 pictures made in the digital camera. The beautiful flowers are growing at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The lionfish is swimming at the Georgia Aquarium. 
Today we worked in the Atlanta Botanical Garden while enjoying the sculpture display “Niki in the Garden” featuring Niki de Saint Phalle’s outdoor sculpture. The display ends October 31st.
The unique glass sculpture of Dale Chihuly can also be seen in the garden. A green Chihuly has been donated and will be here permanently. A blue and white Chihuly installed over a fountain will be permanent if enough money is contributed for purchase. Both are fascinating.
It’s been three years since our last working visit and the gardens have all been redesigned. But, the Japanese garden is still here. So is Frog Baby bronze sculpture; young child holding a frog in each hand.
This is our first trip here without camera bags full of lenses and without tripods. We are now working on travel images more than documentary botany images. So, everything doesn’t have to be photographed at f22.
Now, just a brief word about food. We’ve had 3 dinners at Ted’s Montana Grill on Spring Street and highly recommend it! Ted Turner is the owner and bison from his western ranch is used in some recipies. We tried it in meatloaf, good to the last bite! The buffalo head below was mounted in the restaurant above the bar. A Nikon D200 digital camera with built-in flash was used to make the picture.
Life as a freelance stock photographer can be exciting, demanding, frustrating, but, never boring! If you’re an experienced photographer, acquiring the image (stock photograph) to sell is not the biggest challenge. Finding the right photobuyer is.
We have been in the stock photogaphy business for 11 years, now. Started with a speciality in botanical images: plants, flowers, gardens. We’ve photographed 20+ botanical gardens, in Europe and all over U.S. We’ve been published in all the major gardening magazines published in the U.S. (never submitted to those in Europe).
To be a contributing photographer for those magazines required having an index of plants photographed totalling at least 1,500 species. It took about 12 months to photograph that many species.
A querrie package was sent to each magazine publisher with copy of the index (each plant must have English name and Botanical Name), a page of slide photos, and copies of published photos. It was also necessary to follow-up with a phone call. We were put on the contributing photographers list and received notice of plants to be used in the next magazine.
We expanded our inventory dramatically. Now we have extensive travel pictures, animal pictures, and bird pictures. For an idea of our work, take a look at www.cafepress.com/framed_print.
