[Leica] Directions

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Tina,
This is your chance. See the world and take stock photographs, emphasis in
that order. I wish I had the choice to travel more...
Cheers
Jayanand


On 8/24/07, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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