I've just returned from a memorable 10-day trip to Cape Town, South Africa and its surroundings. In the same spirit as my Spanish stock-gathering trip from April-2023 and late-2023 transatlantic cruise I'll go through my main costs and ask myself the usual question - whether I'll eventually be able to recover (some of) my costs from the trip? Let's get started ..read more

Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa and welcome to the March 2024 Brutally Honest Report, where as usual I'll be discussing my earnings as well as my first impressions piloting the super-light weight DJI Mini 3 Pro. Let's get started ..read more

During the past two years or so I've been watching how Shutterstock's competition is catching up and in my case has already overtaken Shutterstock in terms of overall earnings, especially Adobe Stock. In this blog post I'll try to make sense of how Shutterstock has fallen from grace with three theories as to why ..read more

As AI technology continues to advance, it's understandable for us stock photographers and videographers to feel concerned about its potential disruptions to our revenue streams. We can just keep doing the same old and hope that it just "blows over" (which it won't) or we may adopt strategies to protect our livelihoods. Here are five such strategies that you may wish to start adopting right away - let's get started ..read more

I'm pleased to welcome Super Microstocker, Andrea Piacquadio, for an exclusive interview here at the Brutally Honest Stock Blog to continue our extensive Stock Wizards interview series. Andrea licenses an average of 750,000 images a year and will discuss some of his secrets, the new AI emergence and his new stock agency with a unique ethos, Tiltsnap. Let's get started ..read more

Welcome to the February 2024 Brutally Honest Report, where as usual I'll be discussing my earnings and industry news including news on Artificial Intelligence. I've been traveling for three months so it's nice to be "home" in Portugal catching up on work. Let's get started ..read more

Over four years on from 7 tips to creating book cover success article I figure it's time to update that post with valuable lessons I've learned since then. I'm also going to discuss my book-cover journey from the mid-1990s to the present. Let's get started ..read more

Greetings from Rio where I'm currently escaping the "harsh" Portuguese winter. Welcome to the January 2024 Brutally Honest Report, where as usual I'll be discussing my earnings and industry news including a new monthly segment on Artificial Intelligence. Let's get started ..read more

In this article I will tell you EXACTLY much I was paid for having my image featured in FIVE leading publications (in no particular order), including their circulation numbers. I'll also discuss ..read more

In December 2023, the European institutions reached a provisional political agreement on the world's first comprehensive law on Artificial Intelligence: the new AI Act. The Act is a quite technical wide-ranging piece of legislation and although I'll provide a brief overview the goal of this post is to discuss how it will apply to the licensing of AI-generated stock content for the coming years, especially if you live in Europe. Let's get started ..read more