A while back I posted about my acceptance as a photographer for iStockPhoto.com. Today I looked at my stats and found that one of my first two photos has been downloaded already. It took about 6 days for my first photos to be accepted, and 4 more for the first download.

I am now officially a stock photographer! Granted, it’s not the major leagues, but I’m quite content with being in the AAAAA league for now.

The shot downloaded is called Starfish at Rest. I took it during an early morning low tide on Second Beach along Washington’s Pacific coast last summer. My wife and I were able to get our friends to volunteer to watch our daughter so we could spend our anniversary alone together.

This shot came from that get away where my wife and I reconnected with our past realtionship and in a way re-found the love we had for each other. What a wonderful segue for a shot from this trip to reconnect me with my passion for photography and creativity.