Devil Works

One of my old business ideas that never got past the idea phase was to set up a digital stock photography site. I had grand plans of setting off around the world taking amazing photos and selling them via subscription to fund my travels to interesting places.

As has happened many times in the past I said kept saying “one day” and missed my window of opportunity and now the internet is full of cheap stock photography.

But I haven’t completely given up on the idea. I do take good photo’s if I do say so myself, actually others have said it too, and the evidence is hanging on their walls, and no it’s not just at my mothers house !

I’m thinking that the only way to decently profit from the venture in this age of everyone owning a digital camera is to brand myself as a photographer and sell limited edition prints.

I’m still firming up my ideas around this concept, but one thing I know I need to do is upgrade my camera. Currently I’m using a Fujifilm FinePix A500, it doesn’t take a bad photo but as a compact camera with only 5 mega pixels it’s limited in what I can do with it.

I’ve still got my film based SLR camera but I’m thinking of upgrading it to something like the Nikon D3. I’d have to go out and buy a heap of new lenses but if I’m after premium prices then I need to take premium pictures.

This plan is definately long term, I know I can take good photos, just need to prove to myself I can sell them.

I’ve been doing the paid review gigs for a few weeks now and I must say that the following review that I accepted through Reviewme.com is the strangest yet.

I’ve been asked to review the CSV files page at CSVreader.com. Normally I could talk my way out of paper bag underwater but I’ve been staring at the page for an hour thinking of what people would find interesting about this page.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad page and it’s loaded with information about CSV files.

If you’ve read this far and you haven’t done any programming or dealt with financial data then your probably wondering what CSV files are. CSV stands for Comma Separated Values and according to the CSV files page:

files are commonly used to transport large amounts of tabular data between either companies or applications that are not directly connected. The files are easily editable using common spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel.

To be honest the main reason I have any familiarity with CSV files is that Adsense allows me to download my stat’s in CSV format. It’s a handy function which let’s me feed it into a spreadsheet and sort it in any way I can think of.

So if you are dealing with CSV files and want more information on how the file format works and what it’s limitations are then the CSV files page is well worth a look. It’s clean and uncluttered and doesn’t even have any advertising.

For those that haven’t picked it up yet this has been a sponsored post for Reviewme.com