Our Stock Works
2 years, 5 months ago 
It’s a month since my last post, and I’ve been very busy. Most of my time has been spent working on a new project, Our Stock Works. Remember about a month ago I asked for any photographers reading the blog to contact me…?
Now is the time to unveil what it was all about. Our Stock Works is a stock photography website, offering a huge catalog of images at really good prices. It’s due to launch in a few months time, so we are now scouting for any photographers who may be interested in contributing. We are offering a 50% commission rate, which means it’s a real method to earn money from your photography - images you may just have sitting on your hard drive.
If you’re interested, simply visit the site and enter your email address into the ‘Photographers’ box. We will be in touch with more information about how to get started. Feel free to pass the word on and post about it on your blog. We may be inviting a select few people to help test the site before it launches - probably people who have shown an interest already (Mint referrer feeds are great for that!).
It uses AJAX and RSS extensively, and has been a fantastic project to work on so far. It’s great to be able to apply the latest technologies to a website. To get your taste buds tingling, here are a few exclusive shots of the site and contributor area in action:
Check back for updates - I’ll be keeping track of progress here.
Ourstockworks, Stock, Photography, Images, Photos, Webdesign
March 12th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
That looks fantastic! I’ve added my email and cannot wait!
Fantastic stuff, looks amazing!
March 13th, 2006 at 1:17 am
I knew there had to be a legitimate reason for not posting. The new projects sounds and looks great. Looking forward to it!
March 13th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Yep, it’s been a very busy couple of months. I’m really hoping to get the word out there now, so if any of you know any photographers or people who might be interested - pass the link on
March 14th, 2006 at 3:02 am
This is going to be great. I’m going to take the time and write on my blog about this and advertise for it. The more the competition, the better it is for the consumer.
I was reading this on Newsvine and caught your website from there.
It was said that … “Until now, however, there hasn’t been a real middle ground for people who are looking for images at a price somewhere in between hundreds of dollars, and a few cents.” Do you have any idea about how much the average photo would cost? Would it be a credit-based system?
Hope this goes far!
March 14th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Thanks Mark - Drop me a comment when you’ve made a post and I’ll link back to it.
Pricing will probably range from ¬£15 to ¬£30 for an image (depending on quality, resolution etc). We’re not planning a credit system at first - it will be a straightforward checkout cart service. What are your thoughts on that?
March 14th, 2006 at 8:49 am
well it looks like we’re commenting on each others blogs
15 - 30 quid? That’s rather cheap. Companies are willing to pay a lot more…‚Ǩ 100 - 250, just not ‚Ǩ 500+ like Getty is asking.
Remember, the incentive for the photographer is rather low too, with prices like 15 quid.
Credit card sounds good.
I hold my fingers crossed and hope that you guys will be a great alternative for monopolist-wannabes like Getty.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Credit card system sounds nice. I wrote a post on my blog and made a few banners to help spread the word. They’re not the best, but I thought I’d help out a little.
March 15th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Thanks Mark, that’s fantastic. I’ll mention it in the next Our Stock article.
March 16th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Since when was ?âire part of the UK?
March 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Maybe that should be altered to Great Britian. Thanks for pointing it out.
March 16th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Not part of Great Britain either! You should remove the flag from the map and change the title to UK & Ireland. Nice design though.
March 18th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I’m signed up!
Is this only for people in the UK?
March 18th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
It’s an international project, for photographers and designers across the world. Thanks for showing your interest.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:06 am
Hey Dave,
Just browsing your blog and wanted to say best of luck with this project. Sounds really interesting and has the potential to be really successful.
Good luck with the launch!
PS: We’re long overdue a game of squash, so next time I’m in the Fax we’re going head to head!
May 6th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
looks like an awesome project to be working on. how did it come about?