10 free bux

Which bank will give you a daily interest of 5.5% on funds deposited in your account? DeFiHold will do just that and better yet, they give you $10 USD for free on signup to get you started. At this low level the interest is 1.1% daily which even that is way better than any bank.

Join DeFiHold today, it’s free

Now that you have joined you can choose to not deposit, you still have your 10 bux earning interest, or you can deposit more to earn more. Just remember, never invest money you can’t afford to loose. There are no guarantees with these online sites that they stay online indefinitely, to be on the safe side also withdraw your principal as soon as it’s possible.

Frozen

Now it’s definitely winter, woke up this morning to a totally frozen world…

Rudolphian

Christmas is less than a month away, but Rudolph and his cronies aren’t in any rush just yet…

Non-mover

Slightly delayed here is lasts week stats update. The main blog has been a non-mover the last two weeks, more or less, which is not a bad thing actually as there has been very few new posts made. To read about the ranking and such I refer you to the previous stats update Stability and move on to other matters. The reason for the few posts is simply the need to make a substantial effort building alternative income streams as not only my economy but the economy of the world in general is going down the drain due to the Chinese affliction.

The last week or so I have been concentrating primarily on building two new crypto currencies and I invite you to join me building a future income you too. We all may have missed out on the Bitcoin revolution, 1 BTC is today worth close $20,000 USD, but let’s make sure we don’t miss out on new crypto currencies.

First it’s Facebook’s very own crypto called Libra (LBR) which is in pre-launch at the moment. With UPLibra you get your own LBR for free, you get 3 LBR on signup and then there is a faucet where you can claim more. After making 50 claims you’ll get a bonus of another 3 LBR, then another 50 claims. For every new person you bring in there you also get 1 LBR. In just over a week I have gathered 27 LBR. At the pre-sale site the cost of 1 LBR is $2.06 USD at the moment and this is going up steadily day by day.

UPLibra

Second it’s a crypto called Big Byte Block (BBB) where you get 1 free node block on signup and then, if you wish, can purchase additional nodes. If not, let the one you get for free mature and re-invest those earnings in additional nodes. These will earn a 400% return on investment so for every node you have secured you can secure another 4 and each blocked node reaching maturity will also give you a BBB coin which you can exchange at the Waves Exchange for other crypto currencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum for instance.

Big Byte Block

Shortly I will be adding advertising opportunities at the blog. With between 7 and 8 thousand unique visitors each week and close to 30,000 hits/week banner advertising on the blog is a most viable option. Of course it will be a low cost advertising opportunity.

Savings account

I don’t know about your country, but on savings accounts at banks in my country of residence there is no interest to speak of. There is an alternative though, online services such as TellerBack, where you earn an interest daily on the money in your savings account. Best of all, they give you the opportunity to get a few bucks for free to earn interest from. Myself I gathered $7 USD right after joining through their Bonus program and more can be earned for doing activities such as posting on forums. And you also get $1 USD straight into your saving account for each referral.

http://tellerback0.ru/ref163522

As far as I can see there is no requirement to make your own deposit, so why not get the account and get all the free money you can, then just let it sit and tick away?

Facebook Crypto

Funny thing happened. Facebook is behind the new crypto currency Libra which is being launched right now, but I’m not allowed to post a link to a Libra website. Apparently their own crypto violates the community rules.

Although I’m not really liking the way Libra is set up, only a handful people have access to the core and it’s anything but decentralized, it may be a good idea to get in early and reap the benefits as they come.

https://uplibra.io?refer=1229158

Don’t miss out on Big.Byte.Block, read more in the Questionnaire post.

I really hope you’re joining me securing your own early bird crypto, the quest for future wealth is very much on!

Questionnaire

Sometimes you want to earn a little more a whole lot faster like I did this weekend. I needed to get an additional 15 bucks to use for an investment so I took a few surveys, some of the faucets and PTC sites have offerwalls with extra ways of earning money like taking surveys. It took a little work to get the funds, but it was quite doable. Surveys pay a whole lot more than tapping the faucet or clicking ads.

The two sites/programs I used for this purpose and withdrew the funds to FaucetPay at https://faucetpay.io/?r=674056 were:

Cointiply at http://cointiply.com/r/yyjAo and CoinPayU at https://www.coinpayu.com/?r=MetalPhoto

Now, for what investment did I need those 15 bucks? Well, we’re back to Big.Byte.Block (BBB) where it will buy me 5 more node blocks and when they reach maturity two things will happen, I will have turned $15 into $60 and also have 5 BBB coins ready at Waves Exchange. A quarter of those $60 I will withdraw, you should always get your principal back at the earliest possible time, and the rest I will re-invest.

With a 400% return on investment (ROI) $45 will become $180 which I also will put back into new node blocks which then will return $720 which will return $2,880 at which point it’s time to start withdrawing some profit, half will find it’s way into my wallet and half will be re-invested. That’s $1,440 that will become $5,760. You get the picture.

Big.Byte.Block https://bigbyteblock.com/index/cHAy24lU2

All this will of course take some time, but I’m in no rush. The original $15 I will invest in another opportunity, which one remains to be seen. You can’t put all your eggs in one basket, you need to diversify and spread the risk.

Now, all those BBB coins this wall generate may be a good idea to let sit in the wallet at Waves Exchange until they have more value than today. Just imagine if you had the forsight to do this back in 2009 when Bitcoin (BTC) arrived on the scene, a BTC is today worth approximately $16,000 USD.

Stability

The past week I’ve been a little busy with matters unrelated to both photography and the blog, more about that further down in this post. It appears though as the main blog have reached some sort of stability even without loads of posts being made and have remained more or less in the same ranking spot over the week with just minor fluctuations, it has remained between postion number 26 and 28 at Bloggportalen and is still in the Top 30. At Blogtoplist it has dropped slightly, it’s at the moment in position 12, but they measure a little differently. Bloggportalen is the ranking service that matters though as it has more blogs registered and measured.

Over the week I’ve been hard at work building a foundation for a retirement fund using crypto and some of the investments have begun paying off while others still need a little more time to reach that point. There will be loads of posts coming on this, if you want to join me on the journey to financial security without investing any money out of pocket please keep an eye on the category Crypto at http://metalphoto.blog/category/categories/comm/crypto/ for tips on where to go, what to do and what not to do. By all means, feel free to join the sites linked and start building your own crypto future as well.

New week begins tomorrow, let’s see how far the blog can go then. Next goal is to reach Top 20 at Bloggportalen. Thank you all for visiting, you are all part of the success.

Hair of the doge

Bitcoin is at it’s strongest ever, worth more than $15,000 USD, and it may be tempting to invest in Bitcoin (BTC). However this is the absolutely wrong time to begin investing in BTC, you should aim your focus at some other crypto currency that is not as strong and build a solid foundation with this one instead. Later when BTC has dropped, and it will in time, you can use the funds from the other currency to invest and await the next rise.

One crypto currency that has caught my attention lately is Dogecoin (DOGE), 1 DOGE equals $0.002 USD and is easily obtained. Since you should never invest money you can’t afford to lose and as I am in the process of finding ways for those who are without funds to get going with crypto I have located some sites where you can earn free DOGE rather quickly.

First though, you will need a wallet or two to hold your funds and also to have them withdrawn to so you can use them to invest. Most free earning sites give you the possibility to withdraw to micro wallets, most of them either FaucetPay and ExpressCrypto or even both, so these kind of wallets are needed. Then you will need an actual wallet as well, myself I’m using StakeCube.

FaucetPay
https://faucetpay.io/?r=674056

ExpressCrypto
https://expresscrypto.io/signup?referral=143008

StakeCube
https://stakecube.net/?team=MetalPhoto

Now for the actual earning sites, these are the ones I have been using. The first one gives you the possibility to choose between 20 different currencies for withdrawal and DOGE is one of them. All except the last two also have a very low minimum for withdrawal.

Faucet Crypto
https://www.faucetcrypto.com/ref/473206

Coinles
https://coinles.com/?r=3539

DogeToMe
https://dogeto.me/?r=18323

DogeBitsFree
https://doge-bitsfree.net/?ref=72347

CoinPayU
https://www.coinpayu.com/?r=MetalPhoto

When you have all those DOGE in your wallet it’s time to begin investing and I have chosen to so in mining operations as they are low maintenance, they just sit there and tick away, they are long term investments and you can even join for free and start earning before depositing funds to purchase additional hash power. With some miners your investment runs over a set time period and with others it is lifetime, you will need to check each one thouroughly to know if and when to reinvest.

DefMine
https://defmine.com/Welcome/Partner/14607

Cryptofarmine
https://cryptofarmine.com/r/11630

Dogecoinminer
https://dogecoinminer.space/r/941751

Make a note to yourself to always withdraw your principal as soon as possible from the earnings, there is no guarantees that these sites will remain indefinitely. With withdrawn profits you can either reinvest to boost your earnings in these programs or invest in other programs to spread the risk and also get multiple income streams. In time you will have a substantial monetary foundation for the future.

Morning mist

When you’re up at the crack of dawn you do get to enjoy some really nice views. Just the other day in the wee hours of morning there was an enchanting mist engulfing the landscape around the mansion where my fiancé resides.

 

Shopping spree

For me online earnings is so much more than just crypto investments, it’s actually all about my brand merchandise. This takes a lot of time and effort getting done with images that not only have to be chosen but also adapted and edited for all the various items they’ll be going on.

With the way things have been going this year there haven’t been many high value photos shot, it’s after all the editorial shots from concerts that gives the most revenue, it would really help if you wouldd please consider at least to do some of your gift shopping, Christmas is around the corner, from the outlets carrying my merchandise. Every little bit helps, you know.

Spreadshirt
https://shop.spreadshirt.se/metalphoto/

Fine Art America (Pixels)
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/torbjorn-hvornum/shop

Redbubble
https://www.redbubble.com/people/MetalPhoto/shop

Printler
https://printler.com/sv/print-shop/7433

You can also help me improve the assortment by commenting if there is some motif you would like to be able to purchase items with. I will be adding a lot of new motives in the near future and would like to be able to give you what you want when doing so.

Ground floor

This is a ground floor opportunity not to be missed. Or you can miss and then kick yourself just like you have been doing for not getting in with Bitcoin early, those who did are quite weakthy today.

https://bigbyteblock.com/index/cHAy24lU2

All you have to do really is sign up and get your free node blocked for you and then re-invest in more nodes as the first one matures, there will be enough to get another 4 with those earnings and as they mature you can get another 16 and so on.

Or you can use some of the earnings from these free sites to invest.

http://metalphoto.blog/wallets/

Each new node is $2.96 USD and matures into $11.85 USD.

Doghouse

Back to putting the free money to work. At FaucetPay I had since the last withdrawal amassed just over 16,000 satoshis when I decided to take advantage of Bitcoin being as strong as it is, 1 bitcoin is worth almost $13,400 USD, and swap for a slightly weaker currency. Since I was doing Dogecoin already I went with this one and landed me 820 Doge in the swap.

These 820 I divided between 2 mining operations. I put 500 Doge into the same as the one before, DefMine, and 300 Doge went into Cryptofarmine which isn’t really a miner but rather a HYIP where these 300 Doge will earn 2.4% daily. This isn’t much really, but it’s a lot better than a savings account in a bank and I will re-invest the earnings continually to increase my capital.

DefMine however is a proper miner and here I now have 64 GH/s hash power instead of the 10 GH/s you get for free on signup. As soon as I have earned my principal back (515 Doge) I will retrieve it and let the account fill up on it's own while the retrieved funds will be put to use in yet another program. The same naturally goes for Cryptoframine, you should always get your principal out as soon as possible so it won't be lost if the investment site goes belly up.

DefMine https://defmine.com/Welcome/Partner/14607

Cryptofarmine https://cryptofarmine.com/r/11630

FaucetPay https://faucetpay.io/?r=674056

Just think about it, less than a month ago I started doing this crypto adventure with no money out of pocket and am now investing the earned funds from sites like the ones in the post Wallets (& Paying Sites). I’m deterrmined to prove that you can earn crypto without funds to invest off your own to give less fortunate people some direction on how to build their own financial future.

The other day when I went out to enjoy the sun and do some street photography I did find some lovely fall colors as well.

Minecraft

No, I’m not playing the crappiest game with the worst graphics I have seen since the seventies. Actually even then the graphics were better. It’s all about crypto mining.

Bitcoin is not the only crypto currency around, there are a lot more. I’m guessing there are around 3.000 or so different crypto currencies around and more are arriving continously. One of the more established are Dogecoin and of course I have been tapping faucets and paid-to-click (PTC) sites for those too. I have signed up with a few miners as well for this currency and have just made my first purchase in one of those with free Dogecoins gathered, see further down for sources.

Most mining operations require that you make a purchase of additional hash power, an upgrade if you will, to be able to withdraw earnings even though many of them give you a basic mining contract when you join. The first Doge one to get upgraded is DefMine where I in two weeks only have earned 34 Doge. The minimum amount for withdrawal here is 300 Doge and with added hash power the mining will be much faster.

DefMine https://defmine.com/Welcome/Partner/14607

Earning Doge is just as easy as Bitcoin and I have been using primarily DogeBitsFree and Faucet Crypto for this. There were one more set of sites that I had planned to use for this as well, but the microwallet serving them turned out to be a scam and a fraud so for those programs I am pulling all support. Keep an eye open for a separate post on the scam site CoinPot.

DogeBitsFree is a standard faucet and PTC. From the faucet you can claim every 2 minutes, it’s moving fast and it is quite possible to reach the minimum 20 Doge withdrawal amount in 2 or 3 days. In fact I am closing in on another withdrawal there and will be doing another investment in either a mining operation or a HYIP.

DogeBitsFree https://doge-bitsfree.net/?ref=72347

Faucet Crypto is also a faucet and PTC with a couple of added perks such a bonus level system allowing you to over time earn a growing percentage of the claims added to the money you earn with each click and claim. This site will allow you to withdraw your earnings in as many as 20 different crypto currencies among which Dogecoin is one. They have a low minimum for withdrawal, myself I gather until I have the equivalent to 500+ satoshis before I withdraw which takes 2 or 3 days depending on how many PTC ads they have at the moment.

Faucet Crypto https://www.faucetcrypto.com/ref/473206

Both these sites will allow withdrawal to FaucetPay where you also can swap the supported currencies, ie if you have Bitcoin but want Dogecoin this can be done instantly.

FaucetPay https://faucetpay.io/?r=674056

Remember, never invest money you can’t afford to lose.

Investing

After a couple of weeks clicking away in all kinds of faucets and paid-to-click (PTC) programs I have managed to gather little over $20 USD in Bitcoin in my wallet and am ready to make the initial investments. Remember, never invest money you can’t afford to lose. This is why I have gone this way, claiming free bits, to show people without funds to invest that it can be done starting with nothing. It just takes a little longer and it’s a lot of work, but it can be done.

For investing I have chosen to use a combination of high yield investment programs (HYIP) and mining operations to begin with, I will diversify more in time. HYIP’s are always risky, you can make one hell of a profit but you can also lose your investments.

$7 USD invested at Wildo Profit https://wildoprofit.com/?ref=MetalPhoto at a daily return of 12% indefinitely and referral commissions in 4 levels (25% – 15% – 10% – 5%), $7 USD invested at Oil Super Gold https://oilsupergold.com/?ref=MetalPhoto for a total of 300% return in 30 hours and referral commissions in 4 levels (25% – 15% – 10% – 5%) and finally $4 USD at CLDMine at https://cldmine.ltd/ref/MetalPhoto to give an additional 400 GH/s hash power, they give you 100 GH/s on signup and extra hash power from referrals (2 GH/s on their signup and 9% GH/s for every level 1 referrals deposits and 6% for level 2).

Feel free to join me in my endeavours, just remember to never invest money you can’t afford to lose. I can’t give you any guarantees these sites will remain, but if they do disappear I will lose my investments too.

Wildo Profit
https://wildoprofit.com/?ref=MetalPhoto

Oil Super Gold
https://oilsupergold.com/?ref=MetalPhoto

CLDMine
https://cldmine.ltd/ref/MetalPhoto

Sudden jump

Sunday and I’m here for the weekly update on the stats. In the beginning of the week the main blog reached a smashing rank of 32, that’s quite a jump from last weeks position which was 43. This means that I have gotten myself into the Top 40 at Bloggportalen (with approximately a third of all blogs in Sweden registered and thereby the largest ranking service).

At Blogtoplist (with 34.000+ blogs listed) the blog is now ranked as number 1 in the category Image Blogs and in all categories combined it is now ranked as number 22. This means that here I’m in the Top 30 already.

New week begins tomorrow, let’s see how far the blog can go then. Next goal is to reach Top 30 at Bloggportalen and Top 20 at Blogtoplist. It may take an extra week to do so though as for part of this last week the tracking haven’t been working properly due to a scripting error at the blog so the current ranking isn’t quite correct, an error which now has been dealt with.

Thank you all for visiting, you are all part of the success.

Happy Halloween!

 

Proposition

There is no end to the variation in tasks and assignments as a photographer. Most of the afternoon today has been devoted to choosing and editing images for the city budget proposition for next year from the local chapter of an opposition party. Of course the little model got to be included.

Nothing new

Street photography isn’t really anything new to me, I just haven’t gone out in the streets to purposly do this before. Occasional photos of this kind have been shot whenever I have seen anything interesting while doing other kinds of shoots.

10 O’Clock Postman

 The Post(wo)man Cometh…

Exhibitions

A permanent exhibition is available at The Federation of Swedish Photographers where just a few images, 30 to be exact, from my extensive and continously growing archive can be viewed. It wasn’t an easy task choosing just 30 out of 2,000,000 without even having a theme to base the choice on.

Permanent exhibition

This year my work was supposed to have been featured in several physical exhibitions, but due to that Chinese affliction those exhibitions were cancelled. Better luck next year I guess.

Wallets & Paying Faucets

When earning all this little bits you need a wallet or two to get your earnings paid out. Many faucets and paid-to-click (PTC) have the option of withdrawing your funds to a micro wallet called FaucetPay, usually there is a smaller minimum for this than withdrawing to your regular wallet and also no transfer fee. This enables you to pool al those little payments and make a larger withdrawal later to your actual wallet.

FaucetPay https://faucetpay.io/?r=674056

There are a lot of wallets available, myself I’m using primarily StakeCube at https://stakecube.net/?team=MetalPhoto for my crypto needs.

Here are some nice paying faucets and PTC’s using FaucetPay, please feel free to join in on the fun. I have used these among others to build a starting capital and will soon get on with more lucrative crypto investments and ventures.

Faucet Crypto
https://www.faucetcrypto.com/ref/473206

DogeBitsFree
https://doge-bitsfree.net/?ref=72347

adBTC
https://r.adbtc.top/1896370

GraBTC
https://grab.tc/?ref=106865

Coinles
https://coinles.com/?r=3539

RushBitcoin
https://rushbitcoin.com/?ref=64017

Bitsfree
https://bitsfree.net/?ref=110189

BTC Faucet
https://btcfaucet.best/?r=41530

This one isn’t using FaucetPay, but it is paying and you can withdraw directly to your crypto wallet.

FreeBitco.in
https://freebitco.in/?r=7622496

Steady pace

The incline has slowed down a bit, at these levels you don’t rise to glory just as quickly as you do at the lower ranks, but it has gone forward at a steady pace. The main blog has gone from ranking as number 46 to now being ranked as number 43 at Bloggportalen. At Blogtoplist it has also climbed a bit and alternate between the number 1 and 2 position in the category Image Blogs, but in all categories combined there it is now ranked as number 27.

Still aiming for the next goal to rank in the Top 40 at the larger ranking service, Bloggportalen, while at Blogtoplist it’s now in the Top 30. A new week begins tomorrow, let’s see how far the blog can go then. Thank you all for visiting, you are all part of the success.

One of a kind

How would you like to be the owner of a real collectors item? A one of a kind 30×40 cm print, signed and with a certificate of autenthicity, never to be available as a large scale print ever again and never to be sold as a digital image either. This will be your only chance ever to obtain this unique print, I won’t even make one for myself to make sure it’s the only large print around.

Coming soon might be an online auction for a print that is not supposed to exist, a print called “Drought” with The Pink Panther. It was originally made for a gallery exhibition that due to the restrictions caused by the pandemic never was. The image itself is part of the ongoing series Childhood’s End, but the copyright owners Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) will not grant me a property release.

My intention all along have been to make Childhood’s End images available as prints, apparel and other novelty items. Images with that pink kitten we all love should have been included, but to do so I need licensing or at the very least a property release from the copyright owners. Since the beginning of November 2019 I have been trying to obtain this from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) without even getting a response. I even looked up their chief legal officer at LinkedIn and contacted her regarding this matter just to be totally ignored and blocked.

How much would it be worth to you, how much would you pay for this truly unique collectors item?

Please feel free to comment with how much you would want to pay. To be personally invited send an e-mail with the subject “Pinkie” to info@metalphoto.se and you will recieve a message when the auction is about to go live. This is the only message you will recieve from submitting your e-mail to this promotion and your address will not be sold to any third party.

Also, please feel free to share this blog post with your own networks to give as many as possible the chance to get in.

Shadow Game

Sometimes it’s best to just let the models do their own thing like my child model playing with shadows earlier this year…

Drive-by

A generational drive-by…

Starting Point

You should never invest money you can't afford to lose and many of us don't have a lot of extra funds laying around these days. This why I partly go about this crypto thing from their position and try out some free earners where they can build a base to use for investing to make more money.

One such free earner that is paying is Faucet Crypto. You don't earn much, but in little over a week I have been able to withdraw 2 bucks, just enough for a small investment in a high yield investment program (HYIP). You can speed up your earnings by referring more people to the site, you will then earn 20% in commissions on their earnings.

Faucet Crypto

At Faucet Crypto you get a faucet where you can claim free crypto every 40 minutes, paid-to-click ads to earn from and also shortlinks, those are a bit of a nuisance so myself I'm staying clear of them. The cherry on the top is that you raise experience points elevating your level and adding a bonus on every earning that grows in time.

On the subject of the investment I will get back to you when I have tried it out and further guide you in this crypto jungle.

25% off on prints

Right now and until November 1st you can get 25% off of the retail price on MetalPhoto prints at Printler using the campaign code HALLOWEEN7433, just copy and paste into the checkout page. Time to go shopping for Christmas gifts!

Shop at Printler

On the fence

All our lives have been rather limited this year due to the Chinese affliction, most of us have been sitting on the fence waiting for things to back to normal and we still do. Myself I have had to change my focus quite a bit when it comes to photography and doing a lot more nature and street photography just to mention a few more or less areas of photography for me.

What about you, how has things changed for you because of that pesky bug?

By the shore

This time of year small boats are taken ashore to rest out of the water for the winter, waiting for another summer next year.

Trash

A man picking up trash in the street to keep his neighborhood clean.

Five Moons

I like challenges when photographing, such a challenge is getting nice shots of the moon. Lately I have been viewing another kind of moons though, the kind that earns me money.

One way of obtaining free crypto such as Bitcoin and Dash is using so called “faucets” where you can claim free crypto with different intervals, some are available for claiming every 5 minutes and others once an hour. Then there are the awesome Moon faucets where you decide when to claim, just leave them open to see the amount available to claim grows and when you fell like hit that Claim button.

Moon Bitcoin Core

Moon Bitcoin Cash

Moon Dash

Moon Dogecoin

Moon Litecoin

One great thing about these are that you recieve 25-50% commission on all your referrals faucet claims, when they earn you earn. All claimed funds goes directly to your CoinPot account where you can let your funds grow and when you have sufficient funds withdraw to your crypto wallet. If you want to be able to with draw a little sooner CoinPot gives you the ability to convert between crypto currencies, then you can get them all in one slot and make just one withdrawal sooner instead of five withdrawals later.

Slugs

For her second session ever with a real camera my student went out on her own in the woods and among other shots came back with these two slugs surrounding their coming offspring. She’s doing quite well, I might even employ her as my assistant in the future.

Colors

After a couple of days with minimum work effort, needed spend some time with the missus, I’m back to pester you with loads of great images. Fall is upon us and with it some really nice colors.

Startup

 

Don’t you wish you had been part of it all when Bitcoin first launched and gotten yourself a bunch of coins when they were cheap? After all, one Bitcoin today is worth some $11,400 USD.

Well, how about getting in on a new crypto currency and build yourself a possible fortune? Even if you don’t have money laying around to invest you can actually get a piece of the pie for free. RX Coin is in startup and they are giving you a $20 signup bonus right now which you can invest for a 1% daily return for 50 days, then you can re-invest and slowly grow your account.

Here’s the real kicker, they also give you 80 RX Coins (worth some $50) and a mining tool to increase the RX amount on automatic for free. Their own crypto exchange is due to go live in December so you have plenty of time to let the miner tick away to fill up your account.

Get going with RX Coins today

Through the roof

It’s been an odd week for me with a lot of work offline and with other things online than blogging, not so much photography done either I’m afraid. Still the stats are pretty nice though, the ranking at Bloggportalen have gone from 59 to 46 and is currently balancing a little between 46 and 47. Yep, I’m in the Top 50 now, next goal is to get into the Top 40.

At Blogtoplist the blog is ranked as number 2 in the category Image Blogs for the second week running and in all categories combined it is now ranked as number 35. In this ranking list I’m already in the Top 40. Yep, I’m going through the roof.

Bloggportalen is more interesting though as more than a third of blogs in Sweden is registered here, 160,000+ compared to 34,000 at Blogtoplist. New week begins tomorrow, let’s see how far the blog can go then. Thank you all for visiting, you are all part of the success.

Why?

A lot of people around have wondered why I’ve been spending time shooting and editing street photography for stock image agencies, how can they be accepted without model releases? Well, they can be submitted as editorial photos for which releases aren’t needed. Editorial photos are used by newspapers and magazines, but my not be used for commercial purposes such as advertising. Concert shots are all submitted as editorial photos which pay between $2,000 and $5,000 USD depending on the license so this kind of photos are quite valuable.

The other day when I was doing some Bitcoin house cleaning I mentioned that the paid-to-click (PTC) programs were sent to the trash, but that is not entirely true as I have kept two of them and for very good reasons. One has a 1 satoshi minimum withdrawal which means that it’s possible to move the earnings to a wallet daily, the other one doesn’t have a minimum amount although you have to have made 100 clicks before being able withdraw which takes 4 or 5 days to achieve and in those days you’ll have approximately 25,000 satoshis earned. I can really recommend these two:

BitcoinPTC

BitcoinClix

Another faucet that is working beautifully is Moon Cash where you decide when to claim, just let it stay open in a tab to fill up and when you think it has enough value claim just to let it fill up again.

You will need two micro wallets to withdraw your earnings to:

FaucetPay

CoinPot

More opportunities are available in the left sidebar of the blog.

Faucets

In between editing loads of street photography shots to ready them for stock photo agencies I have also been hard at work (or was it hardly working) cleaning house, kind of, in the Bitcoin (BTC) section of my online existance. Especially I have been closing my accounts with most of the PTC (paid to click) sites as they are paying way to poorly for me to wanting to waste time with them. It takes an eternity to earn enough for payout, there are better ways to use my time.

It’s better then to use so called faucets where you can go and claim free Bitcoins or rather Satoshis (the equivalent to cents, pennies, centime or at least the closest BTC comes to those) with intervals, some only every two minutes and others once an hour. They pay better and you don’t have put all that effort into it, you visit them every now and then and click the button to claim another one. The amount they pay varies as well, the best one I have gave a smashing 950 Satoshis on one click just this morning, it’s the first one below.

Please feel free to sign up you too to get free Satoshis:

Bonus Bitcoin
Faucet Crypto
FreeBitco.in

I will return to the subject of Bitcoin in the future and will also in time open up a store where you can purchase prints using this currency. Of course I will also tip you about more nice ways of earning them.

Elderly

Elderly people with mobility walkers in discussion in Katrineholm, Sweden.

Benched

Two black men on park benches at the city market square in Katrineholm, Sweden.

Holy Crap

Right now all I can say is a resounding “Holy Crap!”, it has been quite an interesting week. Last week, with all Bloggportalen categories combined the main blog ranked numer 105 of 160,000+ blogs and at that point I would have been content if it had entered the Top 100 during the week that has passed. Now I sit here totally flabbergasted, it has been climbing steadily day by day and is now ranked as a whopping number 59. Just 9 positions to go and it will be in the Top 50 which places it in the front page list giving it a whole lot more visibility.

In the category Photo & Art which is the main category for the blog it entered the week as number 7 and has since then taken the position of number 4. It amuses me that the blog of Bingo Rimér, Swedens probably most well known photographer, got pushed down to number 7. Imagine, I have 8 times as many readers/visitors as that Lotto person (or whatever the hell his name is) and he is the most famous camera jockey in the country.

Bloggportalen is not the only ranking service used, another one is Blogtoplist with 34,000 registered blogs. The difference with this one is that it is reset every Sunday at midnight so everyone starts from scratch, at Bloggportalen the tracking is continously the last 7 days and it’s updated every hour upon the hour. In their category Image Blogs this blog ranks as number 2 and in all categories combined it is ranked as number 73.

Bloggportalen is more interesting though as more than a third of blogs in Sweden is registered here. New week begins tomorrow, let’s see how far the blog can go then. Thank you all for visiting, you are all part of the success.

Never work with…

Someone said once that you should never work with kids and animals when making movies, I guess the same goes for still photography. The other day when I was shooting the pooch with the Pierrot/Pajazzo doll I actually had to shoot 30 frames or so before I got one with them both in the right positions.

Studio mode

Fall has arrived and with it cold and damp weather which is not playing nice with my back. It was busted some years ago by an abusive ex who turned stalker and troll, this weather is murder on my back so I’m forced to slow down a bit this time of year and also do most of the work indoors which means it’ll be a lower pace with new pics as well. It’s time to be going into studio mode. There may still be some fresh outdoor imagery though, on days with better weather I’ll still be going out with my trusted Alpha.

One for the birds

This year I have been “forced” to extend my photography into areas that are way out of my safe zone, event photography, and among other areas I have ventured into nature photography. Birds are all around us so I have done my very best to capture them in their activities like fornicating in public on a roof top.

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Decorations

Time to bitch a little again over the Chinese affliction. It has messed up my entire year actually with no events to shoot, not only have their been no concerts or festivals but people have actually even postponed weddings and such as well. At the local kids event I mentioned in "Faces of Halloween" they among other things built up a haunted house of sorts with loads of scary decorations and I was looking forward to seeing what new ghouls they have added since last year. Oh well, maybe next year…

Shopping

We did get out into the streets of Katrineholm, Sweden, yesterday so my student got a chance to try shooting street photography. Of course my focus was on this kind of documentary photography as well. One of the many shots I got was this elderly woman shopping at a flee market in the city square.

Strange Playfellow

Sometimes you just have to have a little fun. The little mongrel performed beautifully and did her part as well. With this model at least a release is not required.

Inconspicuous

 While waiting for another assignment today I found these inconspicuous little shrooms just around the corner of an outhouse.