Oh no... I stopped sending photos to SS maybe a couple of years ago!... I don't have anything recent to add... But at the time it was a real pain for me!... And I barely made a portfolio of 700 photos if I remember correctly!... But I started to stop sending when the image rejection rate got too high and image sales started to drop... It certainly seems to me that In a world with so many images without copyright available, it is difficult for this type of business to sustain itself... Although I have a couple of professional photographer friends (those who have their studio and all that stuff hahaha) who do still have largue portfolios of stock photos not only in SS, also in others too... And this still seems to be working for him to some extent... :)
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I see, very similar to my experience. Ironically, my biggest sales were during the first months after the registration back in 2017, even though I only had just a couple of (average or below average quality) pictures in my portfolio back then :D It was not unusual to make 50 bucks per month back then. Now, with almost 1500 photos in my portfolio, I often make just 5 bucks per month :D Ridiculous. Btw did you keep your portfolio or you deleted it? If you still have it there, do you still get some sales? I think the SS algo actually favors active contributors who still submit new shots so I wonder if those who haven´t uploaded anything new in years still get some sales too...