Alamy.com has gone from 0 to 10 million images in just 8 years, that’s 1.25 million images a year (it took me a few seconds to work that out!) which is impressive.

In an already highly competitive market, with new stock photography web sites springing up all the time, for Alamy to have reached 10 million images, that is quite a milestone and puts them head and shoulders, in terms of quantity, above most other stock image suppliers. Digital photography has gone a long way to make stock photography a more viable option to the amateur photographer wanting to take the next step and perhaps earn a bit of money. The range of digital cameras that are available now that give you the image size and quality to submit your work for stock is also making it a lot easier to enter into the world of stock photography.

So, if you are a stock photographer, have you found it harder to make a living, or a reasonable income, from stock over the last few years, or are you thinking about giving stock a go? Let me know your thoughts.

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