Following on from the ‘gaps in our archive’ discussion initiated by a new Platinum Member last week, I thought it would be educative and interesting to list some recent picture requests from buyers.

I keep having to dampen down my native enthusiasm and remind myself that an expression of interest is not a sale.

Nevertheless here are some recent expressions of interest — excluding Jacqui Norman’s Picture Calls — and of course sales have been made as a result.

Please remember this is retrospective. People always want to know what people will be buying in the future. If I knew that, I would be very, very, very rich. And probably not as nice to know as I am now.

• Academies
• American Lighthouses
• Atlantic Rainforest
• Atlantis
• Botswana people
• Buffy the Vampire Spayer
• Cambodian people exc Angkor Wat
• Classrooms
• Coastlines of Britain
• Corfu 1858
• Cornish Coast
• Cotton
• Cycling
• Diabetes
• Dragon Terraces, China
• Easter
• Endangered Species
• Exploration, drilling & production
• Festivals and Carnivals
• Fuschias
• Golden Gate
• Haircuts
• Hydrochloric acid
• Law, Money and Tax
• Mobile phones
• More Vampire Slayers
• Mountains
• Northern Ireland Science YR 6
• Orang Utans & Chimps
• Penguins
• Physics images
• Pupils
• Rare Wild Cats
• Royal Flying Corps
• Russia’s Golden Ring & Churches
• Technology
• Terrorism in the C21st
• Thai Muslims
• Traffic Congestion
• Travel with pets
• Trees in Northern Ireland
• Walks & English Heritage Activities
• Water Skiing
• Welsh Rugby Heroes
• West Highland Terriers
• World Religions
• Yachts

Some of these we’re sucessful at. Others (Atlantis, for example) we have to be a little creative. I’ve removed the towns and countries requested, because we always need more and more of these. And more people as well. Never enough people.