Macro images can impress. This close-up by cascoly of a wisteria leaf has beautiful colours and a fascinating, almost fractal, pattern.

Jan

This is a classical good stock photo the way we like it. The models are smiling, the colours are bright and you get a good feeling inside when looking at it. The usage for the image is versatile. Check out linus‘ small but high quality portfolio.

Jan

A natural follow-up of Linda’s environmentally aware image in the last blog post, is emjaysmith’s shot of fields with windmills. I’ve heard people complain about an unappealing aestethics of these mills. Personally I think they can be quite beautiful and majestic.

Jan

The city parks in Norway are always full of people barbecuing with disposable BBQs, and you often see stacks of used BBQs. Luckily, because of the growing environmental awareness more and more people are using small, portable BBQs instead.  What do people do where you live?

The photo is by (the norwegian) photographer leaf.

A stack of tinfoil disposable barbecues

Linda

This beautiful dandelion shot is from photographer Leafy.

Linda:)

A great illustration by photo_guru.

One of many great images from gemphotography.

I Want Candy

Linda

It’s sunny in Oslo again after weeks of rain. So let’s enjoy a happy beach image!

The photographer is galcka.

Summer morning at the beach

Linda

Every time we get images from the Antarctica I can’t help smiling. When we started YAY we were told by other people in the photo industry that “microstock would never have images from Antarctica, or images of a tree frog“. As all of our fellow microstockers and our customers know, they were wrong.

These adorable penguins and blue ice cave from photographer GentooMultimedia.

Emperor penguins on the sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Small ice cave on Antarctica

You’ll even get more variety in a microstock agency than in a traditional stock agency, in addition to user friendly sites and lower prices.

Linda

As a reader of The New York Times “Recipes for Health” I’ve always admired the beautiful photos for each recipe. This week their focus is on tomatoes, and it reminded me of some new tomato images we got at YAY a couple of days ago. The photographer is IndigoFish.

Tomatoes

My own tomatoes are still green due to all the rain this summer, but hopefully I’ll get some red, ripe tomatoes soon

Linda