The power of Pattaya Days

Had a mail last week from a “creative agency” in New York, enquiring about the acquisition of one my polo shots for some sort of promotion in Argentina. I advised them that I would be happy to sell them the photo provided they provided me with a reference of some sort, because I have more than 30,000 photos in my polo collection on the web; and one horsey shot looks very like another to me (I didn’t actually tell them that).

They responded with a link to a page on Pattaya Days, the middle shot on this post, taken more than four years ago. Not much of a shot, a player missing the ball. Maybe the promotion is for spectacles.

Nice of them to ask though, most people just steal my photos; and we agreed a price and we both went away happy. I think this is the first time I have ever made any money out of Pattaya Days. Now I am hoping Teddy Bear Monthly will contact me with a request to use a shot from yesterday’s post.

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2013-10-28 | Andrew says

I believe it was Adam Ant who said that Argentina is the myopia capital of the world… btw there are a number of Teddy Museums in Japan….it could change the whole focus of your upcoming trip…could you be tempted???: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9SrTwkNjh0

The Japanese Teddys even defy gravity….( and greet you at the door to take your same as Japanese people admission fee…)…

2013-10-28 | BlogDaz says

Spike, have you never thought of using a site like shutterstock to sell your photos ?.

2013-10-29 | Spike says

That’s the autumn colour shooting out the window then; just teddy shots for me.

2013-10-29 | Spike says

I stuck some on iStock and Alamy with limited results; unlike my wife who has done rather well. You really have to go out with the intention of shooting for stock; and now everyone is doing it and prices/income are dropping.

2013-10-30 | Andrew says

From what I have seen of “stock” photography most of it is what I could most generously describe as “mundane” ( which might explain why SWMBO’s work is better selling -she is looking at things just like the people who actually buy it..) I would think to have a successful career as a stock photographer anyone who is actually interested in photography would have to have a serious session of hitting themselves on the head with a hammer so that they might view the world as Mike Tyson just out of another title fight….“yep…looks good to me…where’s my feets?..ok…truckin’” …the blandness of advertising is the Mecca of stock….do we really want to dumb down that much ?(insert yes for how many $$$ here -no if not enough )…the beauty of a shot well taken ( whether happenstance or planned - or the best ones- a surprise) makes all the rest just fade away….the rest seems to be so much… I guess the word I’m looking for is banal…(and God knows I have spent hours looking at supposed “great work” online only to come to the conclusion that after those monkeys stopped writing Shakespeare they could just as well have grabbed that Canon Powershot and taken those photos…)

2013-10-30 | Spike says

If you are going to shoot for stock, you have to go out with the intention of shooting for stock.

She who must be obeyed’s big earner has been a photo of a pair of shoes: 2012_06_champagne-for-everyone-2

Still selling well.