Continental Drift - April, 2010

Welcome to the April edition of Continental Drift.

This month's newsletter has been written under a blue Mediterranean sky, overlooking the sea, in the village of Peyeia, Cyprus. Here until mid April, Alan Skyrme then flies to Sicily, with a couple of days en route spent in London, before returning to his studio in Natal at the end of April.

Since the last newsletter.....

Alan Skyrme Gallery

Few changes since the last newsletter. We have removed a few more images from the "Recent" section and will plan to start work on re-organising the site - to separate our Fine Art images from our Commercial images while maintaining a single stop for both types of image - when we return to Natal.


Shoot Acai

We have developed a storyboard about acai, and are building a second one (incomplete but visible on the site), to support the sale of acai articles to health food magazines. Acai images continue to sell both directly and via our Alamy collection.

Shoot Froot

We continue to build stock of tropical and general fruit images. Our trip to Cyprus has resulted in numerous fruit images (bananas, olives, figs, pomegranates, various citrus fruits, and carob) that will soon be loaded to both our stock libraries and to the Shoot Froot site. Just before leaving Brazil we added a number of tropical fruit images to our stock, but will not add these to the site or libraries until we return at the end of this month.


Library sites

Images continue to be added to our library sites at Alamy and Photographers Direct. We are now considering illustrations as part of our stock, though preference will continue to be on photographic images. While recent months have been quiet sales-wise, the coming of Spring has seen renewed interest in our stock images.


The Image Market

There has been regular debate about the damaging effect that the developing Micro Stock image market has been having on the image market in general. Principally the effect that it has had on the price of photos in general, and thus on the earnings of traditional (macro) stock photographers.

The debate will continue.

However, while the quality and price of micro stock is acceptable to many buyers' budgets, it is clear that there are some downsides to consider:

Have a look at this recently published article!

Some photographers, Alan Skyrme Photography included, do not plan on producing images for the micro stock market. Our preference is in supplying high quality editorial standard images that suits the needs of the discerning buyer.



Alan Skyrme Photography