Saturday 31 July 2010

Continental Drift - August, 2010

Welcome to the August edition of Continental Drift.

We will be shutting down our studio for three weeks from the end of August. Every couple of years or so Alan Skyrme gives up the safe and cosy confines of his studio to become Amazon Al ... adventurer and tour leader.

He will be taking the 2010 Real Amazon Experience tour to three eco-systems in the Amazon region followed by a tour into the Pantanal swamps of Brazil. Images will be posted to his sites and libraries at the end of September and a book about the tour will be published at the end of the year.

Since the last newsletter.....

Alan Skyrme Gallery

No significant changes this month.

Shoot Acai

No changes.

Shoot Froot

We have loaded images to both our stock libraries and to the Shoot Froot site:


Library sites

We have uploaded a few new images to our portfolios at Alamy and Photographers Direct and have initiated an experimental (re)launch of miniStok through Flickr/ClusterShot. Only a few test images so far as there is a limitation on the files size that is available for sale.


Alan Skyrme Photography

Sunday 11 July 2010

Continental Drift - July, 2010

Welcome to the July edition of Continental Drift.

While we have been "busy" this month we have not been as productive as we would have liked. It is a fact of life here in the Northeast of Brazil that things rarely get accomplished at the first attempt (unless everything is under ones personal control!).

We continue to focus on our tropical fruit collection this month but have been obliged to cancel plans to expand our stock of Acai images.

Since the last newsletter.....

Alan Skyrme Gallery

A selection of new and old images have been added to the "Recent Additions" section, and more images will uploaded by mid-July.

Shoot Acai

No changes.

Shoot Froot

We have loaded images to both our stock libraries and to the Shoot Froot site:
Guajiru
Breadfruit
Caja
Orange
Lemon
Date
Grape
Pomegranate
Grapefruit
Passionfruit
Apple
Mango
Coffee
Lime
Jenipapo
Persimmon
Guabiraba
Bacaba
Bacuri
Acai


Library sites

Now that our technical issues are out of the way we have resumed the development of our library site portfolios at Alamy and Photographers Direct and hope to accelerate the process this month.

London Photographic Association

We have been a member of this association (among others) for several years. We now plan to develop a portfolio for promotion on the LPA site - have been unable to do so in June.


Alternative sales outlets

We are closing down a couple of our sites (Shoot Candids, Shoot the Best, and Shoot Images Gallery). At the same time, we are considering the re-establishment of our miniStok site ( www.ministok.com ) with the intention of loading / selling macro stock images that do not fit our existing library profiles.



Alan Skyrme Photography