Stock Photography - I'm considering it... does anyone have any advice?

Sebastian

Sunday we had a great time with a photo shoot.  I have been playing around with the idea submitting a few photos to a stock photography company.  There are so many out there.  Does anyone have any experience in this field?  I do know that one should be at six months ( or more?) ahead of any season... these spring photos would be too late for any magazine to use.  And of course, my own critical monster in my head makes me hesitate.  I just have so much to still learn about photography.  I look back at some of my earlier attempts and cringe.  Will I look back at these and say... "yuck"?  ;)

I have become much more detail oriented in composition and lighting... I almost never use a flash now, just available light, and I have narrowed my field of interest down to a few specific things, which is supposedly a good thing if one wants to be a stock photographer...

So, any information would be appreciated as I really know nothing about it.

Oberon

IGWRT's Sunday Challenge "The Declaration"

Photo Courtesy of Laura Hedgfield

The Declaration

A pink promise he placed
in the palm of her hand

declared,

"Beauty fades
but my love for you
never will".

"Eeyou!" she wailed

and crushed it
under her Sketchers.

Ten years later
she asked him to prom
placed pink lipstick
upon his cheek

implored,

"Please don't say eeyou."

The thought never crossed his mind.

by Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, April 2, 2012

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This is for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads "The Sunday Challenge".  Todays highlighted photographer is Laura Hedgfield of "Shine the Divine - Creativity IS a Spiritual Practice".