Can one make a living from selling stock images?
Generally yes, but to answer for myself, not at the moment. Stock photography paid most of my equipment, but my portfolio is still by far to small to make a living out of it. I live in the German outback and just have a 28k modem connection. When every single picture upload takes 20 minutes and you have a full-time job it is difficult. But, yes, generally it is possible, even though you have to find your niche AND to upload a considerable amount of pictures! For me it is my look on Antarctica (though with a too small portfolio), for others it is another topic and unique style. Many newcomers will not succeed. I suppose just a few percent of all microstock submitters can make a living out of it. These people tell it loud, but there is a vast but silent majority of the others. What photographic codes guide you? Bring the nature to the people if the people don’t go into nature! I made some photographic exhibitions and told a lot about climate change and the melting ice shelves of Antarcti
