What to expect in 2017. Nikon D5X

What to expect in 2017 . . . Bad time to buy a D810, a Nikon D5X & D850 release seems to be in the cards. There have been whispers of a new release ...

What’s in our camera bag? – Interns

Keeping it small lightweight and capable. This gear bag is what Yuri Arcurs considers to be the best and minimal amount of gear you need to produce 95% of ...

We’re back !

Bigger. Better equipped and with lots of stories to tell. Sorry it took us so long to dust off the cobwebs, but we have simply been too busy to blog about ...

Selfie2Selfstarter

Do you have what it takes to become the World’s next top Stock Photographer?

The world’s highest selling Stock Photographer, Yuri Arcurs, is hosting his fifth Elite Academy Program with the purpose of producing the most ...

A closer look at Adobe Stock

My name is Yuri Arcurs, and for those of you who don’t know me, I’m the world’s top selling stock photographer and founder of ...

Biggest Discounts Ever on PeopleImages.com – Worth a mention!

We are currently running the biggest promotion ever – get double credits! So if you know anybody that buys images, now would be a good time to hint ...

Shooting 30000W Flash on Location to Light up a Fighter Jet

What started as a heated in-house discussion about flash speeds ended up becoming a rather BIGGGG experiment…      

Are you, or do you know, our upcoming COO?

A new COO for our Cape Town productions Our current CEO (Kasper Ravlo) of Yuri Arcurs productions of 80 employes in Cape Town will be leaving us for a ...

Microstock sees its first major setback in 6 years and here is why

You might have noticed huge amounts of images being removed from micro subscription sites such as Shutterstock.com, Fotolia.com, Dreamstime.com etc. You ...

What sells in microstock anno 2012?

About 4 years ago I wrote a post where I summarized what I believed was the holy grail of what sold well and what kind of content was in high demand for ...

Yuri Arcurs Photography is looking for new staff members!

We are always on the lookout for new talent! We are not currently hiring more staff for our Danish branch, but we are looking for candidates for our South ...

The Weekend Test – A different kind of character assessment

Dedicated to my father. When I was young, my father would tell me this story: He said that if he really had to judge a person’s character, an ...

Retouching more than 2,000 files in 24 hours!

If you read my blog post on the hectic launch of PeopleImages.com you will definitely find this video interesting. Just a few days before the scheduled ...

www.peopleimages.com has launched – this is how it happened!

My thoughts on how I experienced being a photographer venturing into IT, equipped only with a high ambitions and a good idea. Not all good! ...

The Yuri Arcurs Photography Boot Camp 2012 has ended!

Things are settling down at the Cape Town branch now that the Yuri Arcurs Boot Camp 2012 has wrapped up. For the first two weeks of January, we hosted over ...