Going Professional

Written June 2, 2006 in Photography, Words

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I consider myself very lucky to be passionate about two subjects - software development and photography. For many years the former paid the bills and allowed me to dabble in influencial projects while the latter came into it’s own in the last few years as a serious hobby.

That’s good because working on WordPress pays better than the average photographer’s pay. It’s very difficult to make much from stock photography too because of the wide availability of cheap stock images.
This is of course only true in general terms. Some photography services such as event photography pay well, and I agree with Arun in the article above, the quality of micro-stock images doesn’t often beat that of the big stock image houses.

Another survey is more positive but I’m not giving up the day job. It’s too much fun :)

Coincidentally, they’re looking for a photojournalist in The Beaumont Enterprise, a newspaper in Beaumont, Texas. Mark Hancock works there so I can only imagine it’ll be a tough job!

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  1. Ah, you really are lucky. Even I make my dough from churning out software(custom made, though) and used to love it, but over the years, it more became like just ‘work’. I am already looking for an escape route which can help me keep both software development and photography as passionate hobbies! :)

      Written by Arun on June 03, 2006 at 4:39am

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