The gallery contains some of our close-up and macro shots.

Some of the images are available for purchase with different Microstock providers. Please contact us if you would like to purchase an A3+ print of an image you like.

We have an Epson Stylus Pro 4880 that makes professional prints (in sizes up to A2).

Most photographers do not succeed in becoming a contributor of photos at Shutterstock in their first attempt. Neither did we… The ten photos above are our successful submission of May 2010. All photos except 2 – the first (Greece) and last (Beijing) photos in the upper row – were accepted. The 2 latter photos were turned down due to: “Limited commercial value due to framing, cropping, and/or composition.”

You have to submit 10 photos for the initial review, of which at least 7 must be accepted. If you fail – and most photographers do – you will have to wait at least 30 days before you can make another try (with different and better photographs).

To get accepted the each photo must be technically perfect and of “commercial value”, i.e., usable for editors, designers and webmasters in their work with magazines, books, commercial ads and websites. To be technically perfect, the interesting parts of the photo must be sharp (with little or no sharpening used in the post-production), the lightning must be good without blown-out parts or too dark shadows (snapshots with the camera’s built-in flash will usually be rejected), no lens flares or color fringes, no noise, pixel/color distortion or compression artifacts or over-filtering in the post-production (in Photoshop or other editing program).

The Norwegian Constitution Day is the National Day of Norway and is an official national holiday observed on May 17 each year. The Constitution of Norway was signed at Eidsvoll on May 17 in the year 1814. The constitution declared Norway to be an independent nation. Read more about The Norwegian Constitution Day…

The image is available at Fotolia

You may view our portfolio at Shutterstock here…

We have redesigned the site and removed all the “old” stuff.

From now on we will focus more on our work for microstock companies.

We have started uploading some of our photos that are available for sale through one or more of these sites.