Well after years as a Getty Contributor via other companies and means, I finally got my first edit back on a submission I made about 3 weeks ago which was submitted as a direct house collection contributor.  I am excited to say that 100% of my selects were accepted.  I was pretty excited about that first sub and did not expect that return.  I am used to having editors look at my work and pick what they want to submit.  I have enjoyed working that way and still do but it was a fun challenge to edit my own work and submit what i felt was great stock.  The cool thing is how fast they make it online.  Within 3 weeks of submission and edit they are on gettyimages.com

On a less than exciting note, it was sad to see that Getty released a $5 sale on web use 170 pixel sized images.  Guess i take the good with the bad ;-)