There have been some changes on 1x.com, so I would like to review my comments.
The photos which are accepted are a bit more diverse lately, but the style of picture is still very much controlled to belong to a very limited set of pictures. To understand what I mean, look at 1x.com, then look at the pictures on another gallery, e.g. this one:
http://www.wantedparis.com/artists_mc.php?m_category=3 and compare. I find that 1x.com looks like a showcase for Nik software's filter collection in comparison, don't you?
So, basically, photographers are paying to present their pictures as long as they correspond to what 1x.com believe they can sell. It may be a good opportunity if you want to sell pictures of that kind (and you need the most expensive membership for that), but if your idea of photography is not overprocessed landscapes maybe you should try something else. Still: oversprocessed landscapes do sell, so....
What is new is that 1x.com has a critique section and the critiques are good. This is rare enough to be noted. I am tempted, but I should say that the critiques are not written by 1x staff but by paying members and that 1x staff is very prompt to tell members who do not write enough details that their text is not good and that they may have "their critique
privileges revoked". Personally, I would find abusive to have to pay to write content and to be bossed around. Now, the critique section is quite new and maybe members will tire quickly to work for free and be told that they should work better... I don't know.