December 29, 2015
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on End of 2015 summary
I haven’t written a lot about the progress of my stock image portfolios in 2015. Many things just turned into being part of my regular daily life, it didn’t feel worth writing about. But since I had written a look back … Continue reading
August 15, 2014
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on I’m not dead yet
I haven’t been actively posting for quite a few weeks. We had a very nice summer in Berlin so far, I have been busy taking and processing images, there were quite a few other opportunities and tasks that came up. … Continue reading
March 11, 2014
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on Why Shutterstock is not our friend (either)
I haven’t spared iStockphoto a lot of criticism in the last year. I still believe that since Getty started to take over control of the business it is run by investment bankers and they will never be good in making … Continue reading
March 5, 2014
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on How did the iStock collection develop in 2013?
Based on a forum thread, I started to investigate the growth of the iStockphoto collection of files in recent years myself. As iStock has removed any reference to library size, queue length or anything else (by itself already a sign … Continue reading
July 26, 2013
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on Yuri Arcurs explains his step to go exclusive with iStockphoto & Getty
A few months after the announcement of Yuri going exclusive with iStock/Getty, he published a new blog post with some of his thoughts on this step. The whole post seems a bit written by his oversized ego but there are … Continue reading