Summer flower

When I saw Mike Rinnan’s website I knew that I wanted to ask him some questions about stock and travel photography. He talks about Alamy and new kid on the block PhotoShelter and comes up with some great insights into the state of the modern stock photography market. He gives excellent advice for anyone seeking to understand or work in the business.

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Lilymist

Hannah Summers is a photographer and artist living and working in Tuscany, Italy. She specialises in macro photos of flowers. It sounds like an idyllic lifestyle. Be sure to check out her Imagekind Galleries.

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I came across Dan’s website when he left an interesting comment on an article I wrote for PhotoPreneur:

I started doing this at the beginning of this year simply because of all the turmoil in the stock business. Since then, I’ve had tremendous success with clients placing orders for imagery directly off my site. And because my work is fairly versatile, I’ve picked up new corporate clients based on the strengths of my travel stock so, I definitely think clients are running from the mess that is the stock industry as fast as many pros are.

Case in point, Alamy now boasts over 10 million images! Do photo eds actually have the kind of time it takes to browse through thousands of images online for an image that is suitable?

I wanted to find out more about Dan’s business, and his take on the stock photography industry today.

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