Yeah, I'm thinking if I can maintain my own stock library ... it seems like diversity is the key to a sucessful photog business ... if I can market myself and have enough photos from different locations, with different subject matter, and so on ... that's less business I'll have to turn away.
Well, this is the only part of your post I don't agree with! I've been doing very well here, plenty popular enough, just got promoted, and I built most of the databases that drive the Finane dept, and some of the ones that Marketing relies on. I'm the only person who intimately knows how they work. Job security is alive and well here. ( Which means it's more than likely I'll still do some consulting work for them to help pay the bills. )
Right. And then there's more; the most expensive thing for most businesses is getting new customers.
You aren't scaring me ... that sounds like San Francisco in July!!
As much as I'm able to, from the road! Might wind up being whenever I pass through a city where I can find an Internet cafe... ( Will they let me upload stuff from a CD? )
Thanks! I've been through Walnut Creek a few times, by the way...
Is this the same as the one on photo.net?
I definately will do this! Thanks!
Some of these are really spectacular...! Do the eagles really let you get that close? ( I know most of these are from very long lenses, but I've got to imagine they're pretty small birds, too... )
I'll be coming by car through the Canadian Rockies, so this is probably what I'll wind up doing... Besides, I get the idea late July and August are about the only time a person would ever want to be in the Gates...
I've always loved to travel ( see below ), and I try not to have too much more stuff than I can fit in my car. But we still have plenty to get rid of.
Well ... I have a car. I bought it used, so I don't have payments. Just insurance.
Girlfriend, but she's coming with, and she'll be helping with the business.
Hopefully they will! I'm waiting for that 1.3x chip with the high res noiseless sensor and EOS 1 autofocus. I can pay for that with my settlement, and have a much easier time shooting scapes.-Canon does not introduce anything new.
Exactly! Riches aren't necessarily money...
Making money go a long way is the key. Gas is expensive, although it will seem a lot cheaper once we get out of the Bay Area. Food isn't that much if you buy cheap stuff at Safeway and cook it yourself. We're planning to camp the whole way, so that should take care of one of the biggest expenses...
Sounds great to me!!
Thanks very much!
Thanks very much!
Thing is, this travel stuff is like a drug! I'm 25, and I've driven across the continent four times already. Check out the map at the bottom of this note...
This is an excellent idea!! And $8K probably isn't a serious investment for the right ( medium sized ) business. Any more ideas on where ( in San Francisco ) to look for someone who might be interested in an arrangement like this?
Thanks! I know the economy is rough right now, and my friends act like I'm a homeless man turning my nose up at a hot meal ... but my job is only getting more and more demanding ( just got a promotion, in fact! ) and it's getting more and more difficult to get a decent chunk of time off. I can't make any good photos from my desk, and there's only so far I can get on a weekend...
I'm trying to figure out how to get a 1Ds, but I don't know if that will be possible before I leave. I don't want to go MF ( don't want to go film at all, but I think I'll need a film body for backup and for backpacking when power is an issue ) because I already have some great 35 mm lenses.
I am interested in what you are dumping. Some jobs suck and some aren't all that bad, still a job but OK.
I can think of more scary things I've done, and am likely to get into again. Being in a car when my friend flipped it ( on 101 in Oregon ) was particularly frightening... Any way I look at it, I should have died. So if I can survive that ...!
I remember that well! My girlfriend and I have the same kind of partnership they had, and I had been thinking about a Cessna ... but that's scary!
Sounds like you've got it made!
Whenever I'm able to, definately!!
I've had to do this for a lot of the murals I've shot in SF. Even at 16 mm, you might still need 10 shots across. But murals are a lot easier; all you have to worry about is the light chaning ( sun behind a cloud... ). With a landscape, there's wind blowing the grass, foliage and tree branches, clouds moving through the sky, birds and other animals... I guess stitching a mosaic of individual photos would do in a pinch, but it's really not my style.
Well ... you can't have mine! She's coming with me, actually. I never really thought I'd find someone who would even consider coming along on a trip like this, but...
Thanks very much! I think I can afford to make a mistake like this -- hoping it won't be a mistake, of course -- a lot more than I can afford to regret not trying.
