United Independent Photographers from around
world unite to form an affordable Royalty Free and Rights Managed Stock Photography Library. At last, a stock photos library offering
highest quality stock photography royalty free stock photos, rights managed stock photos at one flat rate, low price and
actual artist receiving all
payment... No agency commission!
Beginning with a royalty free stock photography photo library called www.Flower-Photos.co.uk back in 2002, you may guess correctly that it was focussed (no pun intended, honest!) on flowers, plants and tree with some really high quality close-ups that made me feel as though I was entering another world.
As
art director, graphic designer and website designer of a garden centre, garden center to our American cousins, which was
flag ship of our group and our group belonging to
UK's largest chain of independent garden centres, I was in
perfect location to photograph flowers, plants, shrubs and trees at
drop of a hat.
The website really took off, paying for its self,
film and processing including scans from Fuji Labs UK and then began making a profit. Not a huge profit but enough to plough back in and expand
library.
I was contacted from a number of horticultural photographers over
first few years but declined their portfolios as I simply didn't have
time to manage a team of photographers and their work.
Over
years however, I couldn't ignore some of
quality of work being submitted and it wasn't just flower photography, it was every theme imagineable.
In 2004, with many of my own photographs, all
photos from www.Flower-Photos.co.uk and
sister site www.My-Flower-images.com I launched an all subject royalty free and rights managed stock photography website and image library called: www.Photo-Image-Stock.com or www.BuyRoyaltyFreeStockPhotography.com with 6 other photographers from around
world contributing a wide spectrum of themes from food photos and cuisine to motorbikes to landscapes and seascapes... it grew and grew and now in June 2005, there are 20,000 photos up on
site and that's only a small percentage of what I still have waiting to be sent up with more being submitted every week!