My pictures are indexed. There is a book for each agency. When a license is made, that is recorded with the agency that licensed it and the revenue generated from the license (some call that a royalty; the IRS sure does!). Never-the-less, sometimes, images are listed with more than one agency, When that happens, that license is recorded in the book with the agency, even though, there may be one listed in another agency book. I suppose that is why they call it indexing. I call it landmark recording! ☺♫ ♫.
Up until today, I had one image that has just set the universe (my universe) on fire. This morning when I checked my e-mail, Instead of opening the e-mail, I just went directly to the agency listing. When I recorded the license, it hit me that this image was pretty much being licensed as much as my best one to date with another agency. When I investigated more closely, sure enough---that image had surpassed the number one licensed image by seven more than the other. Then, when I looked at the financials----the number one licensed image was still a winner because it's revenue was more than double the one that just surpassed it by seven licenses. So-- yep! it's a winner in numbers and the other is winner in dollars! I had to call it a tie!! At least it wasn't heading toward a black hole yet.
Overall, my images are being used more now each year. That is why my workload has been rather heavy of late. It's the old adage: you create the beast, you have to feed it. That is what I have been doing. Overall, it has been fun and as long as it continues to be fun, the schedule can be adjusted around daily activities of shopping and banking and grocery trips and medicine trips and doctors! To be grateful and thankful that I have pretty good health (although there are some problems to deal with) would be an understatement. There are a couple of setbacks coming up and as I work through those I'll be back behind the eight ball again, no doubt. Speaking of the eight ball,,,I just picked that thing up form the 8-ball repair store, too.
We've had three days of 90s. June is looking like it's going to be right on target. The humidity has been better of late, and the wind...it's been gusting more than normal.I'm hoping that this summer just does not see much of that triple digit stuff. You know that when you add the outside air temp and the dewpoint together and it is under 130 it's a pretty good day. If when you add the two together and it's over 130, that means you can stand still and have sweat form. That's the days when I turn around and come on back inside. In Texas, that 130 number usually pops around 10 or 10:30 in the morning. So with that in mind, I start out much earlier and by 10:30 when those numbers come together to wring out the sweat , I'm in the car with the AC on, heading back to the barn.
Something else that I noticed today with all the new transplants moving in. That 10:30 thing is when those people start to turn mean! Today, I saw plates from the following states: Montana, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Idaho, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, The usual that are the result of Toyota workers starting Monday at the new Corporate Headquarters here are ton's of California plates. And it's only gonna get worse as the numbers increase as they fill up the campus.
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| Tempers! |
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| Tempers again! |
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| Now he thinks that he's gonna peck a hole in that cement! Crazy woodpecker---but he was so funny. |
