Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>What is especially different about architectural work that allows you to
>make a living there, that the market is still good?
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>Is it the no-fear climbing, etc? Or are the clients just plain different,
>and willing to pay?
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>Frank Filippone
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>so now I only do certain special jobs,
>and concentrate on my architectural business.
>
Sorry; I guess it wasn't very clear. I mean that I now concentrate on
my work as an architect. I've been registered as an architect here in
BC for nearly 30 years, and have gone back and forth between
architecture and photography as the market and my marketing have led
me. I have usually worked as a sole practitioner in architecture, and
the time-workload graph of that definitely resembles a sine curve,
going from almost no work to severe overwork. Photography fills in or
rather filled in the slack periods. The ratio between the two has
gone from 90:10 to 10:90 and back a number of times.
However, even in architecture I use a similar approach to what I do
in photography and try to acquire combinations of skills that make
hiring me at a higher price a better choice for the client.
Architectural photography has definitely gone downhill here as far as
a money making profession. In the late 80's there were probably 10
doing it full time here in Vancouver, and now there are maybe 3 and
they're not doing well as I understand, even though the volume of
construction has been phenomenal.
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* Henning J. Wulff
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