Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG: Most of you know that I retired from my presbytery job that took me to Central America every summer for 25 years. Since I consider you my therapy group, I'd like your advice on future directions. I have projects that will keep me busy until November but after that I need to focus on something. My husband also retired from his engineering job and is now managing my photography business. He's very organized and frustrated that I keep jumping from project to project with no plan or direction. I could just ignore him ;-) but I can see his point and would like to accomplish something while I still can! Here are the choices I see: 1. Continue to travel as a tourist and take digital photos that I sell through stock agencies. Photos like the ones I've been posting from California. Those sell fairly well as stock as long as I continue to send in new photos. I would also make calendar-type prints of some of the photos and try to sell them through the internet and maybe art fairs. 2. Spend my time going back through my 25 years worth of B&W negatives and slides from my Central American trips- literally hundreds of thousands of photos - most of which I've never even looked at - scan those and try to sell them as stock. Those do not sell well as stock except to non-profit agencies who barely pay enough to cover expenses. I would also make fine-art type prints to try to sell through the internet or galleries (but who wants a print of a hungry family on their dining room wall?). 3. Continue to muddle along working on current photos some days and files other days, never finishing either and driving my husband crazy. You know my work and can give me objective advice, I hope. Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance - Tina http://www.tinamanley.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/portfolio http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/dimes_for_hunger