As Selling stock photos is a long term investment,you'll need an instant income. You can make quite a lot of cash photographing local events,parties,functions and of course weddings and Christenings. (I even photographed a funeral once - by request !) Portrait and child photography is fairly lucrative but you'll have lots of competition from those units that set up in major supermarkets.

Estate agents always need photographs of outside and inside properties and you can also offer a panoramic service using stitching software to give a better impressionof the interior of a house or office.These sell for around $1200.00 for enough photos to make a small foldout brochure. Aerial photography is popular but you'll have to fund the flight costs and then get them back from the customer. Building Site stage construction photography is a nice addition to your income. With this you photograph from the same spot a series of photos to show the property owner or the builder what is happening to their site. It can also be used to show local authorities what is happening without the need for a field trip.

Talking of local authorities, most Local Authori

ties need photos for community projects and events so it's well worthwhile networking with government officers to get to know whats happening.

Local newspapers ALWAYS need photographs - but the money is usually not great ... unless you hit on a major incident (but really regular so it is worth taking !) ALWAYS take a notebook and several pens as you'll need to get people's names correct. When I did this I always took along a digital recorder and got the people to spell their names for me.

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