Afterword
I am not the most successful microstock photographer in the world, not if you go by sales, in any case. But I would like to think that shooting and selling photos online has made me a successful person in many other ways. I was lucky enough to get in at the very birth of microstock. I signed up with iStockphoto in 2000, when there were fewer than 10,000 images in the collection. Today there are millions.
It was through microstock that I discovered my love of photography. I was working as a Web designer/developer, but in 2001 I bought my first point-and-shoot digital camera, and soon after, I left IT and went back to school to study photography full time. My interest was fueled not only by the pocket money I was making from sales, ...
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