{"id":352,"date":"2009-09-11T00:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/336-perplexing-stock-photography\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:20:24","slug":"336-perplexing-stock-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/336-perplexing-stock-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"#336 Perplexing stock photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/336-perplexing-stock-photography\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just got a sales summary from one of my agencies.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes scratch my head. Why? Well, some mediocre photos seem to do very well while some far better photos, erm&#8230; don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstlight.com\/fl-harry-nowell-dock-with-two-muskoka-650.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.firstlight.com%2Ffl-harry-nowell-dock-with-two-muskoka-650.html','Stock+Photography')\" title=\"Stock Photography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This photo<\/a> has sold quite well over many years. I shot this many, many years ago. It&#8217;s far from my best work.<\/p>\n<p>Why does it continue to sell? It is a generic dock scene with quirk &#8211; fancy painted chairs. There&#8217;s plenty of room for text. It has lots of possible applications &#8211; this month on packaging of a CD.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the photo below &#8211; much more fun according to me &#8211; has sold MUCH less.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Less generic. Fewer applications. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/swing.jpg\" alt=\"Stock Photography\" height=\"280\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I just got a sales summary from one of my agencies. I sometimes scratch my head. Why? Well, some mediocre photos seem to do very well while some far better photos, erm&#8230; don\u2019t. This photo has sold quite well <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/336-perplexing-stock-photography\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2F11%2F336-perplexing-stock-photography%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}