Stock photography of extremely boring things
Contracts, meetings, hard hats, spreadsheets. Boring photos sell every month, forever.
How it works
Editorial and marketing teams need pictures of ordinary business life that don't look like clichés. A 2000-image library on Getty and Adobe Stock trickles income indefinitely.
Step by step
- 1Shoot one boring theme per weekend (invoices, warehouses, etc.).
- 2Upload 30 images/week for a year.
- 3Keyword aggressively and honestly.
- 4Reinvest first year's earnings into better lighting.
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