June was a quite busy month for me with a lot of new pictures added to all microstock portfolios.

iStock and Shutterstock earnings showed some growth providing 73% of the total income. However, the return-per-image is still declining: 0.33, 0.29, 0.26 from IS in April, May, June, and 0.28, 0.21, 0.20 from SS, correspondingly.

There were some movements in my low earners with Dreamstime and Big Stock Photo earnings showing visible increase. No extended licenses last month.

A few milestones was reached in June:

• 250 downloads (bronze canister) from iStock
• first payment from BSP ($30.50)
• first payment from Fotolia ($50.00)

Some other bloggers are reporting monthly earnings from microstock:

• Microstock Diaries
• Microstock Experiment
• NiltoMil
• jrtb
• Driftless Ramblings
• bankizdjec.pl
• Photographing the Earth, one millimeter at a time ...

Related posts:

• Reaching the First Fotolia Payment with the Idylwidle Dam Picture
• Reaching 250 Downloads from iStock with the Devil's Backbone Picture
• Microstock Photography Earnings for
  May 2008, April 2008, March 2008, February 2008 and January 2008
• What Sells in Microstock? My List of Picture Bestsellers
• How to Get Accepted by ShutterStock? Don't Give Up!

The $30 earnings line was crossed by this horse abstract picture. It is one of very few pictures in my microstock portfolio which was not shoot by DSLR camera. It was taken with my waterproof point-and-shoot paddling camera, Pentax Optio W10. It was rejected by iStock due to artifacts, its commercial values was too low for Shutterstock, but it was sold already twice at BSP.

Related posts:

• Reaching the First Fotolia Payment with the Idylwidle Dam Picture
• Reaching 250 Downloads from iStock with the Devil's Backbone Picture
• Microstock Photography Earnings for
  May 2008, April 2008, March 2008, February 2008 and January 2008
• What Sells in Microstock? My List of Picture Bestsellers
• How to Get Accepted by ShutterStock? Don't Give Up!

Some numbers about my Fotolia portfolio after 6+ months and 250 downloads:

• 392 pictures submitted, 223 accepted
• acceptance ratio 57%, most of rejections due to the type of photograph
• 62 downloads including one EL in March
• 38 pictures downloaded, "sell-through-rate": 31%
• best selling picture: tablespoon of sesame seeds followed by tablespoon of olive oil

The $50 earnings line was crossed by the picture of Idylwilde Dam Spillway shot in a deep and dark canyon of the Big Thompson River above Loveland, Colorado.

I am shooting a lot of water related pictures including dams, spillways, irrigation ditches, sewage pipes, etc. They are usually promptly rejected by Fotolia. This is perhaps the only one from that series accepted for some unknown reason. The picture was rejected by iStock due to artifacts, it was not colorful enough for Dreamstime, but it is selling very well on Shutterstock.

Related posts:

• Reaching 250 Downloads from iStock with the Devil's Backbone Picture
• Microstock Photography Earnings for
  May 2008, April 2008, March 2008, February 2008 and January 2008
• Organizing My iStock Pictures into Lightboxes
• What Sells in Microstock? My List of Picture Bestsellers
• How to Get Accepted by ShutterStock? Don't Give Up!