CJM Grafx

With the many photos being uploaded from the recent Mini Lypse, my iStockphoto portfolio has reached the 150 photo mark.

I'll admit, I am a bit behind on the number I wanted to have uploaded for the end of the year, but I am uploading at a more consistant pace these days.

The wonderful inspectors over at iStockphoto are moving at lightning speed and my City Beautiful Lypse model photos are being inspected now.

Here is the first from the Lypse to be inspected and it was accepted:

We are back from the City Beautiful Lypse, things have calmed down and we are back to life as usual... with 5 and 8 year old daughters, I can assure you, usual not normal is the correct term.

The first batch of processed photos from the mini lypse are now hitting the inspectors and three were accepted this morning. These are the non-model photos I uploaded while waiting on the model releases for the event to come back.

Here is the first image:

This morning I hit the century mark on downloaded photos at iStockphoto. With currently only 127 photos in my portfolio, I'm happy to hit download #100. Now just 150 more to go before I can become exclusive!

And here is lucky #100 - Role Play Dice

With everything around here as hectic as it has been, I am a couple days behind on posting this, but I have finally had my 100th photo accepted into my iStockphoto portfolio.

Number 100 is this photo taken of my lovely daughter in her cap and gown from graduating her Tiny Tots program. Providing for her and her older sister are the whole reason I am working so hard these days.

In fact, as I post this, I just had four new photos accepted and I am currently sitting at 105 photos in my portfolio.

Indeed it has finally happened, I have hit my 50th download on iStockphoto. I couldn't be happier about this image being my 50th, as it was taken as an experiment with the Alien Bees Ring flash to simulate a television that the two young girls were watching.

Thank you Zoe and Savannah for being such wonderful sports all weekend for our shoot together.

When shooting photography for iStockphoto and seeing your images sell, you often wonder where you photos are being used.

I had yet to find out where any of mine were being used, mainly because my portfolio on iStockphoto is still very small (82 photos with 40 downloads) in comparison to those that have been shooting stock longer or on a more full-time basis.

I found my first photograph in use this weekend, thanks to an e-mail from iStockphoto Administration. I had to read it twice to make sure I read it correctly.

My photo of a Bald Eagle sitting on a stump, shown here, was used in a cover design that is being submitted as one of iStock's Designer Spotlight Entries.

Needless to say, I am walking on cloud nine over this at the moment!