[Leica] Directions

[nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)]

Hi Tina,

You should do whatever makes you happy, assuming that the financial side 
of things is taken care of by your respective retirement incomes. Of the 
options you list, I think a combination of 1 and 3 is what I would choose.

Nathan

Tina Manley 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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