Turn Your Photography Hobby into a Way to Make Money

These days, in the age of cheap digital cameras, EVERYONE is a photographer!

Remember when only a few years ago you went on holiday with your old point-and-click camera loaded with a 24 exposure film, took a few snapshots such as "me standing by the hotel" or "the kids playing on the beach", and then had to take your film to the chemist to be developed and printed. Those days are well over!!

Now you take your compact, intelligent, digital camera with all its built-in applications and SD memory card, with massive picture storage capacity, and come home with a unique collection of maybe 500/600 photographs, which you can easily upload to your Home PC and instantly send a copy of any picture to any other computer in the world via the Internet. How good is that?

Photography is a worthwhile hobby in itself that is becoming immensely popular. Photographs bring family history alive, they record special events in our lives and create personal memories that last forever.

But, there is another side to photography. They say that "Every picture tells a story" and that "One picture is worth ten thousand words". Advertisers, marketing men, newspaper and magazine people and publishers of all kinds have an insatiable and ever present need for new images to illustrate the messages and words they constantly pump out. That's where you, the hobby photographer come in!

All of these people buy stock photographs by the hundred from agencies, most of whom operate online. There are a few large, long established photographic agencies who only deal with experienced professional photographers, but with the explosion in Internet technology, there are many newer younger agencies working to get established in the business of selling stock images and they need your photographs to build up their online stocks.

All types of photos apart from family snaps are urgently wanted. Scenes of town and country, wildlife, buildings ancient and modern, groups of spectators at public events, sporting moments (unstaged), seasonal and weather pictures, etc, are all eagerly sought. If you took the picture ... it's yours to sell as long as no one's privacy has been violated and in a few obvious cases permission has been obtained.

You can make money from your photographs by uploading them FREE to these agency's websites. Their customers download them in bulk and each time they pick one of your images you get paid. It may  normally be only a few pence per picture, but each one can sell over and over and if you have hundreds or even thousands of appealing photographs on offer the money will soon mount up. And if you use several agencies you could soon be earning some serious cash!

Start making a part time living now. Look for photographic agencies advertising online and read their Terms and Conditions. Sign up free and start making money selling some of those thousands of photos 'gathering dust' on your hard disk. Good luck!