On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:00 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:52:37PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It does look cool, and I'm sure I could have some fun with it. I guess I've >>> come to see photography as a job rather than fun. My bad, but inescapable >>> perhaps. >> >> Best thing I did for my photography was to get out of it as a business. I no >> longer make my living that way, I'm free to enjoy doing it again, and I can >> do it any way that pleases me... :-) > > I didn't realize that you made your living at it. These days I'm > impressed by anybody that can make their expenses at photography.
Photography was all I did from about late 2006 to 2010. The first half of that was very exciting: client base growing, sales growing, publications growing, etc. 2008 started well, I was reaching my financial goals and the business growing in the first third of the year. Then April happened, the Great Recession happened, and the business fell off a cliff as one client after another cancelled, went down in flames, or simply stopped existing. The long stretch between Fall 2008 and November 2010 was horrifying as everything tanked and I did anything, anything, to bring in some money. It was not fun. I returned to the technical career I'd left in 2004 in January 2011. It's all been upside since then. I've sold more work in 2011, 2012 and 2013 than I sold in the two year dry, without doing any marketing or promotion at all. I no longer book jobs, I do what I please and sell when people ask about it. My living income is not dependent upon it anymore. :-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
