
I have 244 images on the stock photography site Alamy (you can see them here). Unfortunately, Alamy has 17.58 million images to choose from reducing your chances of being on the first 20 pages for any given search topic to almost nothing.
I’d almost given up hope of making a sale when I casually checked to find the above image was bought for use as a double-page spread in a German tourist brochure netting me $176.28.
Free money (if you disregard the return flight to Rio de Janiero and the ferry transfer to NiterĂ³i).