I sell stock images for use in publications, web sites, etc. through several agencies around the world. Mainly 3D images but some photographs too. Shutterstock is one of those agencies and a very large one too. One of my stock images has reached number 10 of the 50 most popular images on Shutterstock this week: http://tinyurl.com/yjuauub. A feat not easily attained. No one is more surprised than me either. This image has taken OFF completely the last 3 weeks. It’s always sold well but sales have gone crazy lately. This time of year seems to be good for stock sales anyway.
I’m quite happy about it though. So I guess I have make more of these…
I went into this contest knowing that I probably wouldn’t win but confident that if I did things right that I could. Well I didn’t do things right. I tried too hard. That along with some complications with a pinched nerve in my right elbow (known as cubital tunnel), making it hard to hold on the pick, I lost in the store finals. I won 1st place in the preliminary round but that doesn’t mean a lot. I’ll try again next year and bring my blues “A” game. I lost the blues completely in the store finals. I didn’t deserve to win it really.
Here is the first round video:
And now I have the second round up:
Blues Jam [4:50m]: This started out as an open track with nothing but drums and bass. It was a great groove so I jammed some guitar over it. Its yet another jam but I like the feel it had. I intend to make something more of it in the future, maybe adding vocals to it.
On The Recording Project forums a gentleman named Moon posted a track in which he wanted several guitarists to post their take on jamming over it. His intention was to take them and mix them into a full song. I was lucky enough to get 2 of my takes chosen for this and I think its a fun song. I did the acoustic guitar track (on a really badly setup guitar that buzzed a lot) and the solo electric guitar which follows it and appears again at the end. I need to fix some of the notes one of these days but for a one-take-fun-jam its all good. The track ended up being titled FALLING.
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Video is now on YouTube from the preliminary round: http://bit.ly/3UDTlc
Well I went in and won 1st place at the King of the Blues preliminary round 1 at Guitar Center. Next is the store finals on Sept. 10th.
Getting ready for the King of the Blues at Guitar Center (Denver) next week. I’ll be at the Colo. Blvd. store on the 20th between 7-9 PM.
Heavy workload today. Continuing progress on a new client web site. Yet I’m still thinking about new songs for my upcoming blues CD.