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Is this an Off Topic Chat subject?
It is very much different today and it is harder, indeed WAY harder than ever to make money doing photography. Even harder if there aren't any people in the photographs.
The market is flooded/saturated with photographs of Abstract, Landscape (farms, flowers, trees), Animals, Bugs, etc. 500 million or so new photos are added to the Internet every day. That is 3.5 BILLION a week. 182 BILLION a year.
Few have any idea how to market those kinds of photographs with most being one more brown cow in a huge herd of brown cows all milling about on a photo sharing web site like Flickr, Smugmug, 500px, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Moo!
But I sold fine art and stock photographs for close to 30 years. That was in addition to my main source of income - commercial and retail photography. In round numbers fine art and stock sales generated 1/4 of my income.Off Topic Chat
. . . outside the topic of photography . . .
It is very much different today and it is harder, indeed WAY harder than ever to make money doing photography. Even harder if there aren't any people in the photographs.
The market is flooded/saturated with photographs of Abstract, Landscape (farms, flowers, trees), Animals, Bugs, etc. 500 million or so new photos are added to the Internet every day. That is 3.5 BILLION a week. 182 BILLION a year.
Few have any idea how to market those kinds of photographs with most being one more brown cow in a huge herd of brown cows all milling about on a photo sharing web site like Flickr, Smugmug, 500px, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Moo!