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Stock photography report: Germany

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I do my best to keep on top of all of my stock photography sales, but every agency reports a little differently. I recently received a quarterly report from one agency covering the period of November 2014 through January 2015. As I entered the images into my tracking report, I noticed a larger number than usual were shot in Germany. That same day, I spotted two sales of Germany images on my Alamy account — which I can check online daily.

You never know how much to read into these reports, but I do like to look for trends of which country’s images seem to be most in demand at any given time. These past few months have been the best for my Germany images by far. I look forward to seeing if the trend continues.

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The images I’m featuring here are not necessarily the ones that were on this report, but it seemed like a good excuse to dig back into my files from Germany and share a few favorites. Above are two from Leipzig, and here are some teacups on display in the Grassi Museum — also in Leipzig:

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And a couple from beautiful Dresden:

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Change

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Think of that bus as the new year screaming past. The first week of 2008 is nearly behind us and there are only 51 more to go. Time truly does fly.

It looks like the theme of my 2008 will be change. I know, everyone is talking about change these days — especially politicians — but I have other changes in mind. Plenty of them. Among the first is this blog and my new website. I’m changing the way I’ll be marketing myself as a photographer this year and the new online presence is just part of that effort. More on those plans in the coming months. I also find myself doing more teaching this year. I’ve taught Photoshop at University level before but I’m now beginning to do more workshop-style classes.

But this is just the beginning of the changes in store for me in 2008.

There will be other changes as well. One big change is that we plan on moving this year. We’ve been in our current house for over 20 years and we’ve wedged ourselves in quite well. It will be no easy task to extricate ourselves and relocate but it’s an exciting time and I’m looking forward to it.

There are other changes in store but I can’t talk about them all at this point. Lots of things that are still in the research and thinking stage but you can be sure I’ll share details with you all when I can.

Suffice it to say, it’s going to be a busy year.