Hi list I am obviously in overdrive! It is interesting to read how my college musing has developed.
Bob Croxford wrote: >...Even a wholesale fish merchant I know has bought a digital camera because photographers are too expensive. This and other remarks in recent posts on this subject all point to the fact that there are more profitable ways of making a living, if not as enjoyable. I have just received a note from a good client of mine who took early retirement from Eurocontrol in Brussels a year ago. (This is the EU air traffic control agency that controls aircraft management of our skies. Or is supposed to). With one other partner, he has set up a business doing a similar thing as a consultant. In his first year he tells me he has reached a turnover of �400,000.00. He expects to reach �2m in their second year of trading. The down side is that he has recently had to visit Baghdad and Basra airports touting for business. Apart from these two places, it is amazing to hear just how many airports around the world still put oil lamps out to guide jet aircraft in to land at night! However it has struck me that if a student comes into photography because of a keen interest in imagery and cameras, does that mean that a young person with a keen interest in aeroplanes and flying could make it as an air traffic control consultant. Maybe this could be a side line for photographers! Yours cynically? Not really. I'll just carry on doing his exhibition work. Kindest regards to all Norman Childs Mobile: +44(0)7831 519217 Tel: +44(0)1256 767611 Fax: +44(0)1256 767612 Website: http://www.greenshoots.co.uk =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
