German broadcaster Deutsche Welle produced this interesting segment on photographer Yuri Arcurs and how he turned his microstock photography into a million-dollar photography empire. Here’s a mind-boggling statistic: on average, Arcurs sells one of his images every 8 seconds.
http://youtu.be/gpK5IXhKr_A
He has definitely run ahead of everyone else. It's something we'd all like to do, I think.