Hi!
My reply interspersed...
Suggesting commercial possibilities is a very generous comment, Mike. Humble thanks!
I should say that once Mike voice this one out load - I am with him. If you wanted, Jostein, you could go pro, quite easily from creativity/"the eye" point of view...
One thing to worry about is of course the images themselves. Both quality and quantity.
Don't worry about the quality...
To earn a living, the quality must be reliably good, and there must be a certain volume of production to entertain potential customers. Whether it's renewal of stock photos or personal projects. By keeping photography as an hobby, one doesn't have to worry about such things. It is possible to enjoy shooting at every push on the release button, and just leave the button alone otherwise. Creativity doesn't have to be persistant.
:). Somehow you sound very much like Mike Johnston in one of his articles...
All that said,
Last year, I set up a personal one-man enterprise _in case_ some business comes along. Nothing much has happened yet, though...:-)... but one never knows. There are some tax benefits in our system from this practice, and it sends a signal to potential customers about devotion to the hobby, at least.
But I don't really have neither the guts or the merchant skills to pull off a photographic career.
Fascinating. I never knew you can establish the enterprise without doing anything... I would presume, quite wrongly at that, that once you register you were supposed to produce some papers at the end of the year - to prove that you actually are doing something...
But, Jostein, you still have all that is necessary to be an excellent amateur photographer, probably better than quite a number of so-called pro's out there :).
Boris-who-fortunately-has-much-to-learn-before-such-a-though-would-ever-cross-his-mind
:)
