I haven’t written anything for a bit, sorry about that. Got plans for various things but other commitments have kept me from this. Plans to write more hi-fi reviews, plans to create new free Photoshop and Illustrator brushes. Also my plans to write 100 random facts about Smoking Drum appear to have dried up at about 29.

Anyway, recently I’ve been boosting my stock image folio and the images above are just a few of the images. I specifically took stock images recently on holiday in Cornwall and it seemed to work well! Out of just over 200 images, 63 were good to submit and only a handful were rejected.

Also, shooting for stock has enabled me to find some photo mojo which I’d lost for well over a year, so that is reason enough. So what if I’m not shooting arty images?

In a couple of weeks we’ll be off to both of the UK ATP festivals where I go out shooting images in the morning whilst everyone else is asleep, so maybe I’ll get some more then!

Seeing as I’ve mentioned my spare-time stock image creation, I thought you might be interested to see examples of my latest uploads to iStockphoto.

My “sketched earth” globes (top left) have been really popular with their flat paper-like people and objects on the surface of a hand sketched globe with painted sea.

Recently I’ve been really developing my ideas of 3D objects with illustrated graphical elements, as you can see with the microphone, computer network and stethoscope. I think these work well and allow me to really show a concept (like healthy heart) but I want to really push this a lot harder and play with the graphics flowing over the objects.