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Portfolio Update: Traditional American Thanksgiving Dinner

Time for another iStockphoto portfolio update!  It’s been a few years since I created a stock photo series revolving around my favorite meal of the year, so I figured the time was ripe for new Thanksgiving images!

Quick BTS of Halloween Shoot

I mentioned the other day that I would post some behind the scenes images from my recent Halloween Trick or Treating royalty free stock photo shoot.  You can see some of the images below. 

Portfolio Update: Tailgating Party 2011

Ok, I know yesterday I said I was going to show some behind the scenes shots of my recent Trick or Treating stock photo shoot, but I’m too excited about this new series to let another day go by without showing it off a bit.  Welcome to “Tailgating Party 2011″ – a fun royalty free stock photo series of a mixed race group of 20-30 somethings celebrating football season outside a stadium.

Portfolio: New Halloween Trick or Treat Images

I normally plan ahead when it comes to seasonal content, uploading fresh royalty free stock months before a certain time of year.  Actually, that’s what I was doing when I did a recent shoot of kids trick or treating for Halloween.  I was going to save these for next summer to upload, and in fact, I am going to hang on to a bunch so they are fresh, but I liked them so much, I wanted to get a few up this year to give the buyers a chance to have some new imagery for their last minute ads.

New Greasemonkey Lightbox Script

Buyers, there’s a new Greasemonkey script in town, and this one is right up your alley when it comes to ease of use of iStockphoto’s lightbox functionality.

How Fotolia Missed An Opportunity

An interesting microstock development happened earlier this week, concerning an iStockphoto competitor.

Don’t Forget the “Seasonal Search”

Sometimes the iStockphoto search can seem a little bit daunting.  However, with the holiday season coming up, have no fear.  There are a set of pre-made searches that you can utilize to speed up your search tasks, or even just to brainstorm with.  The Seasonal Search page.

Holiday 2011 Images

Merry Christmas!  Really, already?  Sure, if you’re in the advertising or marketing world, things happen months ahead of time.  That’s why I’ve added more than a hundred new holiday/Christmas images for 2011 to my iStockphoto.com portfolio. 

Where Are Those Display Options?

Sometime last week at iStockphoto, there was some sort of site outage, causing a bunch of strange things to occur here and there at the site.  One issue that has still not yet been fixed is the search return display options.  So, every time you get a search return, you have to reset it to show 200 images instead of 50, or turn back on image titles, etc.  In case you don’t recall how to set these options, here’s a reminder.