04 December 2015
My 3000th sale and 6210th $US here on DT:
12 February 2013
Some months ago I wrote a blog on MISTY MORNINGS where I presentred some shoots taken by me last Summer at the Seliger Lake in Russia and accepted by DT. There were 8 images of starry nights and mi...
29 November 2012
Yesterday 3 years passed since my registration on DT. I have got some stats that could be of interest for others, so let me share some of my figures with you.
06 September 2012
This summer I spent two wonderful weeks at the Seliger Lake (Russia, 400 km to the NW from Moscow). Some nights I made a shots of starry sky and each morning I checked if it's a mist over the lake.
02 September 2012
I passed three important milestones for last 2 weeks:1) 2000th $ in my pocket coming from DT (August 22nd).2) 1000th day with DT (August 24th).3) 1000th sale (2nd Sept, right away).
27 July 2012
I have just started the people photography. It's still an 'undiscovered' area for me.
16 July 2012
Yesterday I read Brett's blog on his picture that he had found on a book cover googling with the search string 'BCritchley Dreamstime'.
11 July 2012
Recently I have started to shoot models (surely, all of them are isolated against white background :-) ). The first session has been just accepted by DT. And here are some of these images:
01 June 2012
My collection 'The First Sale on DT' have been existing for 15 months. At the moment there are about 180 images collected but it grows very slowly.
26 April 2012
Two weeks ago I enjoyed shooting skyscrapers in the Eastern part of Moscow. Majority of images have been just accepted by DT. They represent the concept of modern architecture and they are colored ...
10 February 2012
A month ago I installed new plug-ins to my PS CS4. Namely, StarSpikes Pro 2 Filter(from ProDigital Software), Knoll Light Factory(from Red Giant Software), and set of filtersfrom Flaming Pear (of w...
24 January 2012
In my portfolio there are 40 or 50 images that represent clip art on astronomy themes.
21 January 2012
I was quite happy to find two my images (of the same series) used in two calendars issued in Czechia and in Russia: first one andsecond one
19 January 2012
I have read stories on downloads that had been happened in a couple of hours after approval. Nothing of the kind happened to me, so far. My record is 6 days between approval and first sale.
06 December 2011
Six months ago HERE IN MY BLOG I told you on total lunar eclipse that happened on June 15, 2011.
30 November 2011
Today my second year with DT is over. It is a good time to have a look back to see what has been done for this second year.So, I have 431 images online +42 which I disabled or donated to free section.
22 June 2011
More than 1 year ago, in April 2010 I took a series of rising moon images just out of my window (near the center of Moscow) with 200mm lens.
08 June 2011
I would like to put your attention, colleagues, to very interesting astronomical up-coming event: the total moon eclipse that will take place in a week, on June 15 2011.
25 May 2011
I was lucky enough to find another my image in action just performing GOOGLE search with the line 'igor sokalski photo'. Here it is: http://www.globaltravelerusa.com/showarticle.php?
11 May 2011
Funny thing happened to me yesterday. I visited an exhibition on telecommunications in Moscow (it was needed for my regular job). It was a large exhibition which occupied 3 enormous halls.
07 April 2011
I told you some time ago that being inspired by Alek Kringstad (Kringstad) who wrote an excellent blog on handmade cheap lightbox (you can read it here), I made my own one.
22 March 2011
So, finally I have made cardboard lightbox with walls and "ceiling" of tracing paper. Also I bought 3 cheep lamps and 3 x 6450K bulbs. Toytal price for all the equipment is $30.
11 March 2011
I always dremt to take photograpy of a firework. And finally I managed to do this. Unfortunately, fireworks are very short events and it is not possible to change spot adjusting for the best view.
09 March 2011
Noctilucent (mesospheric) clouds represent especial kind of athmospheric phenomena. In contrast to 'normal' clouds they are located in upper atmosphere (mesosphere) at altitudes about 80 kilometers...
06 March 2011
It happens to me from time to time. I take shots and put images to my hard disk to process later, but then I have no time for a week or so.
04 March 2011
I still do not know if it is a good idea or not, but anyway I got it a week ago and now 2 images are on-line:How much downloaded these images will be? I have no idea... Place your bets, colleagues!!!
03 March 2011
We all are human beings. We all can be tired. We all are not able to be always right. But we all can speak to each other politely and constructively trying to explain what we think and what we want.
28 February 2011
I have new record today: 16 sales per day. 12 of them are Zodiac images which I worked on a month ago:
22 February 2011
My 300th image has been just approved.
17 February 2011
I would like to introduce my collection which is dedicated to very first downloads on DT for each of us.HERE IT ISI suggest to use this collection to share our first sales.