Welcome to tommroch

Hello and welcome to tommroch.

The image shows a collage of Lava Lamp images created with photoshop. The full images are available to buy for a very small amount at a variety of microstock photography sites the links are at the right hand side.

Whilst not a photographer or designer in the strict sense of the "years of study and years of employed experience" sense, it is what I now do for a living. My images sell at a variety of microstock, midstock and macrostock agencies. I literally fell into doing this. - O.K. more like stumbled across a Microstock website which aroused my curiosity, and haven't looked back since.

Making money on microstock is really, really easy!!!

Right, I better rephrase that!

After you have got yourself a LOT (i.e. quantity) of really good images suitable for stock (i.e. quality), and then keyworded these images (that is the boring bit), you upload them to the stock agencies of your choice and sit back and wait for the money to come in. Now don't get too excited yet, this isn't going to make you a millionaire overnight - consider the following.

The music industry has its share of David Bowies and The Beatles. The music industry also has the groups that "get-by" doing weddings and corporate gigs. Many of the groups "getting by" are probably as good as The Beatles and The 'Stones, but were never discovered, or didn't put themselves about enough. Then there are the guys who have been happy to plod away in a pub rehearsal room, to their wives and kids for years promising themselves they will be good enough to gig someday.

The fooball world has its Henrik Larssons and Gordon Strachans. The famous guys of yesteryear never got rich. The famous footballers of today are stupidly rich. The football world also has its guys who played for their school, works team, then the over forties five-a-sides. Some might have got a short career with Accrinton Stanley.

And this has absolutely nothing to do with stock photography - except perhaps to illustrate that, like music and football, you are only going to get out of stock photography what you put into it, you are going to have to be somewhere between reasonably good to excellent in the quality of image you produce and you are going to have to get noticed - oh and graft a little.

Thanks for your visit to my first blog post. Tomm.


Unwatermarked versions of these images are offered at the following sites, for use in a variety of situations from simple website illustration to top-end advertising campaigns.
Alternatively rather than buy images, you might like to sell your photographs and artwork.

The following links are agencies where you can buy and sell photos and artwork.
Most of the photos you see on this blog are images I sell regularly through these agencies. If you can take a better picture than those I have on this blog, you will easily make money. Good Luck.

istockphoto

Fotolia

Dreamstime

Bigstockphoto

Yaymicro

Mostphotos

Featurepics