John Richmond

30 sales for $620 gross. 56 zooms for a CTR of 1.14. Overall a fairly decent month.

My wife recently bought me a moth trap to see what was about in my jungle of a garden: Here's some results from the first night's trapping. Nothing rare, but insects I've never photographed before: Ruby Tiger moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa Poplar hawk moth, Laothoe populi Buff Ermine, Spilosoma luteum Nut-tree Tussock moth, Colocasia coryli All moths released safely and unharmed after shooting.

17 sales for $269. 35 zooms for CTR of 0.64. Below average.

Yes, UK courgette = US Zucchini = Cucurbita pepo varieties. I think Lemon squahes are also C.pepo but are just classified as summer squashes, not courgette/zucchini varities. (Don't get me started on winter or butternut squashes. I'm allergic to the flesh, as I found when delivering some IT training to a Cornish organic market garden. Throwing up their very tasty lunch 20 minutes after eating their squash laden salad did not go down that well!)

Only 13 views compared with a daily average of 150+. But I did get a zoom tp provide a CTR for yesterday of 7.69! Measures definitely well out of order.

Keep them coming, Ian - it's all useful.

One of 7 newspaper licences in today. For once neither plant, garden or insect (the vast majority of my sales). The water powered funicular that connects Lynmouth and Lynton in North Devon. 2 licences for online and print use by a national newspaper. Total just over $$.

Glad you both enjoyed them - I certainly enjoyed taking them.

A few from me: Flower stalk of the Japanese hardy banana with overlapping bracts hiding the flowers and fruit developing. 2 stems currently flowering in my own garden. View of part of the newly opened court garden at Trebah sub tropical garden, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, UK Exotic planting at Tremenheere, Penzance, UK with Musa basjoo and Dicksonia antarctica Ornamental succulent display at Surreal Succulents, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Penzance, UK Green tinged white flowers of the half-hardy to hardy tendril climbing passion flower, Passiflora 'Snow Queen' in my own garden Mallard bridge and Hydrangea macrophylla at Trebah sub troical gardens, Cornwall, UK

9 14 for $211 $239so far. Most of my sales tend to come in during the last few days of the month so fairly normal so far. Mind you, zooms down on normal this past week.

Many thanks, Ian. Both taken in my own garden so it's pure (small) profit.

Three from me: Snowdrop enthusiasts not deterred by the rain Kawasaki Mule 4010 4WD All terrain vehicle crosses the tidal ford at Lopwell Dam on the River Tavy in Devon, UK. Farm dogs in the back. Rain soaked opening bud of a purple form of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum

Excellent month. 28 licences for $1012 - 2 x $$$, 3 x $97.65 TV licences and a trio of other high $$. 49 zooms for a CTR of 0,80. More like this please Alamy!

3 x $97.65 TV sales and a $75 US sale dropped in late last night to really boost my month.

My one and (so far) only request for RM exclusivity for a two year period attracted a decent $$$ price for a magazine cover but whether that was an uplift from the normal cover price I can't really say.