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Stock photography is a numbers game.  And in the digital age those numbers are growing at an alarming rate, a rate that is far too fast for any one photographer to keep up with.  It seems to me that most stock photographers are going to have to accept diminishing returns as the number of photographers submitting images to agencies and the number of images increace.  Add to that the falling value of stock imagery and the future look a little bleak. 

Ah well, the best I can do is try and keep up.  In the week that Alamy surpassed 12 million images I breached the 5000 mark, which is roughly 0.042% of Alamy’s total image count! A “small fish in a big pond” comes to mind.

Calendar companies are busy putting together, and some finalising, their 2009 ranges now.  One new business quick off the mark is The Wee Calendar Company, who is producing a range of small desk calendars featuring photographs of Scotland. The range covers most areas of Scotland and I am pleased to say that my images appear in several of them. The Stirling and the Trossachs, Edinburgh and Perthshire calendars contain my images exclusively. They measure just 10cm x 9cm and cost £2.99. Available from February 2008.

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