Brian,
I think you confuse micro with something else that I mean. I don't care about micros at all. I just merely have been suspectful of that business model and now, according to many sources, there are too many people fighting over ever smaller pie. It's crowd sourcing gone haywire for the contributors.
I don't really care at all what other people do - that is not part of my business. However, I like to make observations, not only about stock industy but about the world and life in general. So I don't wish for anything - I merely observe and take things as they come. I have nothing to gain from what anyone does or doesn't do - all I have to do is just take care of my own business. Hopefully you are in the same position yourself.
As to the laziness of people - that has nothing again do with micro at all. Micro has always been just mainly hobbyists selling themselves short and a few (like about 10) serious people making a good profit. I have, over the past 40 years, realised that most people are full of plans that are never fulfilled. This again is not meant to mean any group of people in particular (this group, microshooters, macroshooters, people who make their living going through garbage - take your pick), but this is just how things are. I cannot do anything about it. Again, I do my own work as well as I can and I work at it so much that I also dream about it at night.
Peter Forsberg
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Yarvin" <brian@...> wrote:
>
> > It was noted on a forum as a sign of micro malaise that arcurs had not updated
> > his microdiaries or whatever since march. This fact led me to some
> > investigations. I also figured that most supplying istock in a professional
> > manner have seen their sales go way down. I just wanted to see what anyone had to
> > say here. I guess nothing. We'll see how the future shapes.
>
> Peter:
>
> It may well be that the "malaise" is nothing more than wishful thinking. My experience is that
> the flow of new people entering the business is huge and unstoppable. I have never seen a
> circumstance that has any effect at all. Indeed, I've mentioned before that earning less is
> viewed by many as a positive and I haven't seen a trace of evidence that this has chanced.
>
> > I have seen so many people disappear and all but stop supplying many free for all portals that it's amazing.
>
> This too is par for the course. I remember so many who come and gone. It has nothing to do
> with micro at all. It's more about fantasy vs reality. Still though, the influx of newcomers easily
> compensates for whomever may walk away.
>
>
> > There are ways to make it in stock and there are always people who go further
> > than others. Most people are lazy, they play the lottery, they get nowhere. They
> > are full of plans, good thoughts, but then they sit in front of the tv and forget
> > it all. This applies to those who would like to be active at a gym, or shoot and
> > edit photographs for portals, agencies, pennyplaces.
>
> I hope you're not suggesting that the newcomers reading this board are lazy. Or do you just
> wish it? You'd be amazed how motivated the people I talk to are.
>
> This business of laziness and micro somehow going away seem to be recurring topics in your
> posts and I suspect it's all wishful thinking. While all things stock photography come and go,
> the two consistent features of the business are the constant influx of new contributors and the
> endless pronouncements of doom.
>
>
> Brian Yarvin
> Author, Educator, Photographer
> http://www.brianyarvin.com
>
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