November brought a slight drop in my earnings from microstock photography. I was quite busy last month adding 67 pictures to my portfolio – 1823 pictures in total with the largest selection online with Shutterstock – 1565.

iStock, Shutterstock and Dreamstime provided 81% of my microstock earnings. My RPI (return per image taking into account the entire microstock portfolio) was down to $0.79 in comparison to $0.84 in October and $0.73 in September.

I added a profit line (earnings minus expenses) to a graph below. What it is included in expenses I explained in two previous posts Am I Really Making Money from Microstock Photography ?

I just completed 2 years in microstock photography. November was my 2nd month with a profit above $1000 (well, slightly above).

iStock. BME, 44% of my microstock income. 43 new pictures added. $0.92/download – same as in October.

Shutterstock. 26% of my earnings. 65 new pictures added. $0.45/download (1 EL and 11% from “on demand downloads”) – lower than in October.

DreamsTime. 11% of earnings. 54 new pictures added, $1.13/download. A pretty slow month, but my earnings were saved by an extended license in last hours of November. Abandoned farm house on Colorado prairie is one of my favorite HDR pictures.

StockXpert is going down, but there were still sales from Jupiterimages (30%), Subscriptions from Photos.com are gone.

Fotolia is going down since BME in September.

CanStockPhoto. One big sale from PhotoSearch and a few smaller one.

Veer. $35 from 31 sales and I am ready for the first payment.

123rf. Much slower than October.

Big Stock Photo. Same as October.

Featurepics. I reached the payout level in October after 2 years, got my payment in November. One sale worth $2 last month indicate that the next payment will be in the end of 2011 …

Some other bloggers are reporting monthly earnings from microstock:
Microstock Diaries … Microstock Experiment … NiltoMil … MeLastMohican’s Blog … Microstocking or Ministocking

Related posts:

• 13 Months of Microstock Photography Earnings: October | November | December | 2009 January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October
• My Favorite Camera and Lens for Microstock Photography
• My Microstock Pie – Earnings Split by Agency
• A Reverse Look at Microstock Sales from My iStock and Shutterstock Portfolios
• My microstock referral links for photographers:
  Dreamstime, ShutterStock, BigStockPhoto, 123RF, FeaturePics, Panthermedia, CanStockPhoto.

My latest stock photos on Dreamstime