sell a photo i've taken

they are just the eyes.. I will leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination..

I have not sold one but my pics were used in a newsletter and one is actually hanging in a hotel. Woo hah.

I’m part of an organization that has an annual art auction. I decided that for my first time, I would donate a print to the auction and see what the reaction was. I’ve donated every year since, have had photos printed in publications at work, and have sold a few on my Zazzle site.

Tell me if I have a shot at photography!

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Thanks!

I’ve taken many pictures on the vacations I’ve been on, and have entered them into contests. Nothing yet, but I;ll keep trying.

I guess this is about acceptance. It is not about the money. I suppose that I equate people spending money on something with assigning a value and therefore a worth.

The ultimate compliment (if you are from the US, I suppose)

I have sold portrait photographs that ive taken, and a few landscapes. I want to keep selling them, because its always good to get a bit of money in your pocket from something you love doing.

I don’t know the first thing about going about this. Someone was almost going to use one of my photos and publish it in a local newspaper, but she went with one of hers. I fancy myself to be an amateur photographer, but that doesn’t mean I can’t sell them.

Maybe as postcards…who knows? I’ll keep dreaming (up these beautiful ideas and see what flies).

I sold my first photos in a restaurant exhibit. I came in with a few enlargements that I had made to give as gifts to my parents, and the owner asked me if I had any more like them. I said I did, and he asked me if I could bring in 10 or so framed photos to put on the walls. The shots really suited the restaurant, which was already the kind of place that attracted a lot of artists, musicians and teachers. I wound up selling 4 or 5 of the photos for $150 each, and a new gallery gave me a call and asked if I was represented. They wound up giving me a solo exhibition later that got me more visibility and encouraged me to take my photography seriously. Now I am a full-time photographer working freelance and for a local arts and news weekly, and it is GREAT.