It's not as if we didn't know this already, but Paul Melcher sums it up well over on Thoughts of a Bohemian. Stock photography as a career option for photographers is over. Dead. Done. Not that this is a big surprise to me, but it feels particularly definitive now. I'll still get my Getty Images royalty every month, but the amounts will continue to get smaller every month. I haven't bothered to submit new work that way for over a year.
Over on PhotoShelter's blog is an aptly titled entry, "Stock photography is like the gold rush. And that didn't end well." Who needs professional content when every photo you'd ever want is on iStock and Flickr already?
Yep, no more checks in the mail ;-(
Posted by: Dixon Hamby | October 26, 2009 at 01:57 PM