Welcome to the world of stock photography.

Spent most of the day doing this:




Also this:



and variations thereof.

I have joined Alamy, and I am working on the test shots to submit.
Have discovered that: a) I need proper lights; b) one of the lenses *does* suffer from a touch of softness; c) I have dust (or muck, or both) on the sensor AGAIN.
I know that they are very fussy about quality (and rightly so), and I am now having second thoughts about the quality I can produce. We'll see.