I'm often surprised at where my stock photos show up. A few years ago when my daughter was young, she wanted to attend the Show Biz Expo in Manhattan. I had just started experimenting with stock photography and had heard about Shutterstock's On the Red Carpet program, where they help you get a press pass to events in return for the exclusive right to license the images you take for two years.Although I license many more commercial photos on shutterstock than editorial photos, I've done pretty well with editorial there - and have licensed photos from that shoot a total of 42 times. Two of the photos have ended up in books.
One, this photo of a line of actors queuing up for auditions, which I've licensed 29 times and which still sells regularly, ended up in a book on acting. No surprise there.
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Roxanne Martinez of Kaiser Back Institute performs ashiatsu massage. |
So why am I writing about this in a travel blog? Does the Walt Disney Castle give you a hint? I discovered last night that another one, a photo of ashiatsu (foot) massage, is in the new 2012 Fodor's Guide to Walt Disney World (on page 121).
It was an interesting sight at the Show Biz Expo so of course I took a picture. You never know how those unusual photos will be used - so they are worth taking.
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Here are the two books:
