Between the two stock photography websites that I run (MicroStock Forum for photographers and ImageTrail for designers) I receive a lot of emails about new agencies. They are always nice, but in all honestly they mostly look the same. Many of them were created with the famous kTools PhotoStore (which is a pretty nice product really, but has a certain "look").

The once the stands out to me is LuckyOliver. It is a relatively new agency (popped up on my radar about 5 months ago. The whole site is themed around a carnival. This sounds strange, but it has a certain appeal to it. Everybody is nice and interactive, their database is still small, but quickly growing.

The other interesting thing is that I have continual reports of actual sales. Setting up a stock photography agency with 5K-10K images isn't easy, but selling even 10 images is even harder. So they must be doing some good promotional work. Maybe they will tell me their secret.

Now don't expect Dreamstime or Shutterstock type earnings tomorrow, but if you are looking to diversify, I would recommend Lucky Oliver as a survivor (and yes, there have been many casualities).

 

As the number of people actively using ImageTrail is inceasing I like to put popular searches in here.

Popular Searches for December
*Valentine Images
*Easter Photos

It amazes me how early people are looking for "spring" type images. Well, I hope they found what they were looking for!

The robot just indexed a great set of sword stock images. Take a look.