"how weird -I just bought a new camera. Small world" **** And with the progress, affordability and quality of digital photography today, almost everybody is now a photographer, so it seems. I've been a professional landscape photographer for many years now. We sell these landscape images as fine art throughout Hawaii in many locations along with a couple of websites as well as stock globally. But over the last couple of years sales have been declining a fair bit. Same goes for the world of stock photography, where agencies used to pay steep royalties if you allow usage of your images. That market is nothing near what it has always been and percentages have declined significantly. Why these declines? IMO, I believe because so many more people are taking their own photos when they travel on vacation, and then also selling them to stock agencies for peanuts. But at least so many others are now enjoying the pleasure of getting out there into the natural world with gear and all, soaking the beauty that surrounds all in. It's not easy to beat that as a hobby today. As many new photographers are finding out. (Am on my PC but can't lose the bold font here...
