The decision to turn photography from a passion into a full time career usually comes down to a photographer needing more of the most valued aspect of photography… Time.
Read MoreFor most entering photography the dream is to be a professional photographer. To make a living off the images you take. It is a grand goal, a challenging goal, and a goal that once you reach can make you second guess if it was really what you truly wanted.
Read MoreToward the end of 2024 my gallery host started with updates that would, will, and do affect my clients. These changes come with law changes for things that are no longer escapable to creative businesses. Yes those things are pretty much taxes— photography sold online is no longer a grey area in the sales tax landscape.
Read MorePhotography is a journey. An ever evolving journey with several stages that at one point or another each photographer will go through. Some times we hit these stages quickly and other times we may be in one stage for a long time. Other times we may be in two stages at once or revisit a stage.
Read MoreThere are arguably a lot of challenges to breaking into the photography field and “making” it. Photography is an increasingly popular career choice for those who are creative, are stay at home mothers, are dreaming of being their own boss, or simply just love photography. Yet, most photographers will fail in the first two years, the rest will crash out around year five, very few make it past that and those that do are the privileged and lucky few.
Read MoreAs a photographer sometimes we have slow months, it is just a reality of the trade, there will be times where we have nothing going on and nothing coming in. For me 2025 didn’t say hey there is no work to start out, in fact I actually had a really great January and February scheduled.
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