What is better than tasty wine, super fast cars and stays at five-star hotels?

well, free tasty wine, super fast cars and stays at five-star hotels!
Taking this truth to heart we decided to start giving out premium-quality stock photos for free. All you need to do is register on this site, log in and download high-res image for absolutely free.

We will cycle the image every second week and sometimes ones a week. To be sure to get all free images follow my twittery-tweets: mememelinus is the name.
To register just click the green and white button to the left (the one with a white +). You will get a confirmation mail and that's it. Log in and notice the "Free image" tab above the "Can stock" tab.

Please note that only registered users may use the images found in the free section of this site. In other words, You may not download and send this image to someone else to work with - the download is personal and you may not transfer/sell or give it away. Thanks for understanding.

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Some say "stay clear from the saturated market" I say: Jump on it!

There's no good reason for you not to be shooting similar images to the ones you see as top sellers on stocksites. Not one. So go do it. I sure did and I am very exited about how it turned out. And I'm even more exited about how it is going to sell. I did my business shot with a small twist - instead of a mix of male an female and a senior and mostly male (as many of the microstock images are) my shoot was women only. Not saying that is going to sell better, just that it was my little twist.

Go take a look at the shoot:

The shoot so far at Shutterstock:

Working more and more with stock, I came up with an interesting dilemma.
I've always been a sucker for contrast, be it color, tone or even conceptual.

So the other day when shooting some "celebration" pictures I also tried it the other way round, take a look:

To promote what we can do for you we'll keep on posting pretty graphics with things we have done and sometimes the circumstances around the project:

The dollar is high and the krona is low -

let the money flow!

what if someone asked you to design logotypes for everything and nothing?

That is exactly what happened to mememe a while back. What the costumer wanted was logotypes that were formated in Photoshop using fonts they already had (and free fonts if necessary). There were about 30 categories to fill. And mememe did.
There is a mix of example-titles and category-text. Click to get slide show.

Surf posters for a while and you will see some similarities and trends that previously escaped you. One that I noticed is the "Damsel in distress" poster, fragile closeup on scared hottie.

here are the nominees:

The power-Damsel:


The cute-Damsel:


The ooo-Damsel:


The What-the-Damsel:

How about that, mememe - a copycat!

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