Posts Tagged ‘Mike Moats’
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Every macro photographer will run into a great looking flower with character, but the angle you want to shoot at has a horrible clutter background and you can’t do anything about it. All is not lost, you can insert your own background. Photograph and print your own backgrounds and just place them behind the flower. Now some may say that’s cheating, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Here is how you do it. For a green background find a grassy field or even the grass in your backyard. This is how the subject looked on my first background shot.
Now just turn the focus on your lens till it becomes out of focus and a solid color like this. Now I have a nice solid green background.
Here’s another subject, some bushy stuff on the ground.
This time I don’t take it all the way out of focus, just take it to a point where I have some slight textures.
Here is another subject that has some pinkish flower, so it will give me another color to work with.
Here is the out of focus image, and this subject gives me a little different color.
Now you can always take any of these out of focus backgrounds into Photoshop and adjust the tint to change the color. Here is the last image and I changed the color in Photoshop to a more grayish green. So you can play with the colors until you get what you want.
So just print yours out to what ever size you don’t mind carrying into the field. Most subjects are small, so you can get by with an 8X10 print. Attach the print to some cardboard or foam core, or anything to stiffen it. You can hand hold it behind the subject to be photographed, or use a Wimberley Plamp to hold it in place.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: backgrounds, Macro, Mike Moats, tips
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
I see many times people posting interest in taking their hobby of nature photographer to the pro level. Myself and I’m sure other pros have people that contact them asking for advice on what it takes to make a living in this field. My response is that from my experience it’s a seven day work week and can be tough on your family life. I work about forty weekends a year so any family birthdays, holidays, christenings, father and mothers days, sports, concerts, etc, are many times missed. This is much like the entertainment world, pro athletes, traveling salesman, or any other profession that requires you to be on the road many days a year.
Nature photography is one of the toughest fields of photography to make a living in. I’ve found that for me being diversified is the key to making it. Having multiple streams of income keeps the money flowing. Those streams all take a lot of time to keep them flowing.
Marketing is number one, nobody knows you’re alive and in business unless you tell them. Shameless self promotion is something you have to get used to and you need to be the type of person that doesn’t mind this type of marketing as some would consider this bragging about yourself, but it’s just getting the word out that you’re in business and having some success at what you’re doing. I spend a lot of my time marketing, I write a daily blog post, moderate on two photography sites including my own “Macro Nature Forum”, post images, post on Facebook and Twitter, and reply to photographers sending me emails with questions.
I display my images in about twenty art shows a year. This takes up twenty of my weekends, many away from home. The shows start in May and run until October and consume almost every weekend for those months. Some of the shows I’m gone on Friday and return on Monday, leaving me Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, to print, package, and pack for the next weekend. During the winter months I’m going though the process of applying to these shows, which is filling out applications, sending images for the jury process, writing out checks for show fees, etc, keeping it all organized so I have a show every weekend. Taking time to keep track of materials and doing all the ordering and always trying to find the best prices. During the winter when I apply to these shows the jury fees and booth fees run about seven thousand dollars, which I won’t see again for months.
During the art shows off season I’m presenting my workshops. I do about twenty workshops which are on weekends. This take time promoting the workshops, adding them to my website and blog, sending out emails and post cards, posting them on nature photography websites, posting on Facebook, etc. Working with the hotels on setting up rooms for the workshop all across the country. Planning the workshops and how they will run. Shooting images for examples in what I’m teaching in the workshops, and constantly updating the material presented at the workshops. Many days each year are spent on the road driving to and back from the workshops and art shows.
Wow, I’m already tired and I haven’t scratched the surface on what I do. While all this craziness is going on with the art shows and workshops,
I have to maintain my moderator duties online.
I work with art consultants that buy images for their design projects, print the images, package, ship, and invoice them.
I contact companies that would be willing to sponsor me, work with them when they need images for ads, photo conventions, sometimes even go to photo convention for them. I send them promos for my workshops that they can list on their websites.
I do online workshops, which takes time again promoting, critiquing the participants shooting assignments.
I have a how to macro book that took time to write and have printed, I have to maintain stock at Amazon, maintain on my store front sales, packaging and shipping to customers.
I have five e-books completed and am working on more. Again more promotion, sales and sending the e-books online. I also make them into CDs to sell at the workshops and art shows.
I’m working on how-to macro videos for You tube.
I travel and present programs for camera clubs, photo conventions, garden clubs for flower photography, have done some at REI stores.
Send submission to magazine with article ideas, and once accepted working with the mag to set-up the article and images. Invoice them.
Send out information introducing myself to new art consultants, interior designers, calendar companies. etc. reply to their emails as they contact me asking questions about pricing, printing, etc.
I maintain a blog which I write and post as frequently as possible and I write when possible for Tamron’s blog. Post on facebook any updates on workshops, art shows, and any other happenings.
Maintain a website, posting new images updating art shows and workshop schedules.
I will visit and sell through art galleries, so time is spend traveling to the galleries maintaining stock.
I have companies that contact me for stock images, negotiate, send files, and invoice them.
I get to beta test new products for companies, and they always wait till the last minute to send you the product and need a response NOW! Take time to work with the product, Email back and forth with response.
I have charities that call and ask for print donations which I always do. Deal with emails, set-up time to make contact with prints.
Take care of all the accounting, sales, taxes, keeping track of cost of running the business.
Working toward setting up webinars for live how-to macro workshops online.
Wow, all this work is making me tired, I need a nap.
Now are you starting to wonder why I haven’t mention anything about shooting. As you can see there is not much time left to shoot. It can be frustrating and hard to schedule time to shoot, as you have probably heard most pros say that the business takes up ninety percent of their time. I do make time to shoot but it has to be scheduled at the peak times which for me are the spring and fall. The summer I almost never get out to shoot as the art shows consume so much time.
I have to say I’m pretty sure there are a few more thing I do, but I think you’re getting the point. If I tried to make it on any one of these streams alone it would be tough, but with a little income coming from all these streams I do very well, but I sacrifice a lot of time and family life to maintain this business.
I have to say even with all the work I do I can’t wait to wake up in the morning at five o’clock and get to work! I wouldn’t trade what I do with anything else. I always tell people where else can you work where people are complimenting you while handing you money!
Good luck if you give it a shot.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: Mike Moats, Nature Photography, photography business
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Here’s a great post that was on NaturePhotographers.net the other day, and thought you all would like reading it. Thanks Michele for this great insight as a photographer’s wife. Just in time for Father's Day!
A Photographer’s Wife
by Michelle Blanchard
- Yes. I know not all photographers are men. But, being that my husband is one, I’ve learned that a photographer’s wife:
- Knows that a “going for a walk” really means “stand for long, long periods in one spot”.
- Becomes accustomed to seeing her husband lay on his belly in public places.
- Knows that ‘the light’s gone’ doesn’t mean it’s dark.
- Has learned that photography involves expensive gadgets which break, are easily lost, and are used only once in a very great while.
- Has learned that photographic equipment multiplies and eventually fills up what used to be the guest bedroom.
- Is resigned to the fact that camera manufacturers build obsolescence into each piece of equipment, and that after a year of use, the equipment needs to be replaced.
- Never has to wonder what to get her husband for Christmas and birthdays.
- Understands that when they board a plane, her bags will be checked, not his camera backpack.
- Wisely refuses to carry that backpack.
- Has learned that making statements like “watch your settings” and “did you charge the battery?” aren’t considered nagging.
- Has learned that, no matter how many photos he takes, she will never see more than one or two.
- Has learned that, “Okay, here we go” is always followed up with “Oh, wait”.
- Has learned to check all his pockets for memory cards before washing his clothes.
- Knows that “blowing out the whites” doesn’t involve explosions or Caucasians.
- Cannot get her husband to sit still for a family portrait.
Tags: Humor, Mike Moats, NaturePhotographers.net, NPN
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
When I started in the art show business five years ago it was my first experience at selling nature photography, I thought that the art shows were a place where people came to find contemporary abstract art, so I loaded up my booth with abstracts and soft focus images. It didn’t take long to figure out that the people that attended these shows were not interested in the abstract images. What they were buying was the images that is called realism. Everything in focus images of subjects that people could identify and relate to. Images of reality.
After about five or six shows, I pulled out most all of the abstracts and replaced them with realism. My sales shot up dramatically.
So why do people like realism over abstract? Not everyone likes realism, there are the people that like abstracts, but they are in the minority. I’m in the minority because I tend to prefer the soft focus abstracts, or images with patterns, shapes, soft blurred colors.
One thing that I have learned from talking with the people who buy my images at the shows is that they usually have a connection to the subjects in the image.
Take this Lily of the Valley flower in the image above. One lady buying this image told me that her grandmother had a patch of Lily of the Valley flowers in her yard, and every time she sees this flower she thinks of her grandmother.
Many women who bought it told me that they carried Lily of the Valley flowers down the aisle on their wedding day. So they were buying the image based on that connection of a happy day in their lives.
Another lady told me that her favorite perfume is made from the Lily of the Valley, so she was buying the image based on that connection
I would have never believed that my best selling image every week would be of a frog in duckweed. I had this image for two years before I decided to take it to one of my shows. It outsells every image, every week.
Why does it sell so well, because amazingly I’ve been told several times by buyers that they have huge collections of frogs at home.
I hadn’t taken this frog image to the shows because I thought, who would buy a frog to hang in their home, boy was I wrong!
I stopped taking most of my images of wildflowers because very few were being sold. I started to realize that most people are just not familiar or knowledgeable on wildflowers. If they don’t know what kind of flower it is, then they are not interested in hanging it on their walls. Again, people need a connection to the subject. They like Calla Lilies, Sunflowers, flowers that they can easily identify.
My wife has attended many of my art shows and knows some of the European photographers that show landscapes and scenes from Europe. She had never expressed any interest in any of their images until she went to Europe. After her trip she bought four images from one of these photographers because they were images of places she had been. A connection now caused her to purchase those images.
With abstract, we can’t connect these images with anything in our lives. Unless we have some artistic tendencies we will not be able to connect to these subjects in the photographs or paintings.
The connection to reality is strong. One lady was buying an image of a Trillium that she thought was a Calla Lily, and when I told her it wasn’t a Calla Lily, she no longer had any interest in buying it. It’s still a great image of a beautiful flower, what difference does it make that it’s not a Calla Lily, but it did make a difference to her.
Photography of landscapes are shot with everything in focus and would not be considered abstract, so these are images of realism and reality. That’s why landscape photographers will get good response to their images. But as macro photographers, we tend to be more artistic in what were can do with our subjects, so many of the macro photographers get disappointed when friends and family don’t get the abstracts.
It was mentioned on my facebook page that abstracts tend to appeal more to the younger generation, and I totally agree that younger people tend to be more open minded to this kind of art. The few abstracts I did sell were to the younger generation. The problem is for those of us trying to sell, the art shows are filled with the older baby boomer generation who have the finances to purchase art.
Young people have families and very little money that can be spent on collecting wall art. If they need art for their homes they can buy it much cheaper in the prices they can afford at Ikea, Kirland, Walmart.
Most of the buyers are the older people that have more disposable income because their kids have left the nest, and they have more money to spend on themselves and their homes.
So if you would like to see a more positive response to your macro photography, shoot everything in focus of reality in nature. Hey it’s good stuff, I have lots of great images of reality that do very well in selling, photo contests, and impressing friends and family members.
Find subjects to shoot that people can connect with.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: art shows, Macro, Mike Moats, reality
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Well, well, turns out there IS a sun, (we haven’t seen it much this spring) and it was out the other day. I got out early to beat the wind. Once that sun gets up and heats up the air, it starts the wind moving.
Depending on what I’m shooting, I may use the sun for some backlit images. Not a lot of plants up yet, but have enough Skunk Cabbage and May Apple plants to work with.
Here is the patch of Skunk Cabbage that I’m working. In another few weeks when these plants are full grown you won’t be able to see the ground. They grow in swampy and river bottom areas, and you can see a little bit of the swamps water in the background of this image. You can see the low angle sun touching some of the plants.
I usually walk towards the sun studying the leaves to find the best looking backlighting.
The sun needs to be at a low angle to get good backlighting on the leaves. Below, processing was done first with the Solarization filter in Nik Color Efex Pro, and then some fine tuning in Nik Viveza 2.
The more deeply furrowed the leaf is the more highlights and shadows you get. I shot this at f/32 for full depth of field.
Here is a horizontal version:
This is a May Apple leaf and they typically are not at an angle that catches the sun for backlighting, but this one had the right tilt that offered this view.
Backlighting really makes the veins pop in these leaves, so give it a try next time you’re out in the early morning or late evening sunlight.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: Lighting, Macro, Mike Moats
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
One important element that I look for when out walking with my camera is contrasting colors, shades, shapes, and sizes. Interesting variations within subjects play an important part in creating images with character.
This is an agave plant that I found at a botanical garden. You may have seen the work of photographers who have converted a color image into a black and white image and then added a small splash of color in order to create a contrast that pops. This plant reminds me of those images, but this plant’s outer leaves were naturally black and white with the green leaves underneath providing a contrast with character.
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If you were intending to find contrast in nature, this would not be a subject you would select.Although it has a nice soft feel and a good flow of lines, it does not have the pop that the element of contrasting colors would provide.
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Here is a pair of Cottonwood leaves with a nice interplay created by the contrast of the two different sizes, almost like a small child hiding behind the larger mother.The early morning sun backlights the pair creating a nice shadow on the front leaf. The two leaves were hanging downward on the tree out in the field, and I flipped them 180 degrees during post-processing for an effective and pleasing composition. Contrasting sizes often provide an effective way to add character to an image.
  
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: contrast, Macro, Mike Moats
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Here is an image I shot while in San Diego early this month, and I had this process in mind for this flower when I shot it.
Here is the original image, I first did some clean up with the specs of debris, and filled in the gaps between the petals showing any background, and did a slight crop.
After doing the clean up in Photoshop Elements, I then clicked on Filters. In the next box clicked on Blur, and then clicked on Radial Blur. In the next box look for Zoom and click the circle next to it. Use the Amount slider to add or subtract the amount of the Zoom you want, and this is what I came up with.
After I got the zoom the way I wanted it, I went into Nik Software Viveza 2, and did some tweaking with the structure slider to bring out the details in the petals, and darkened and added structure in the dark center. Then popped the yellow a little more.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: Flower Photography, Macro Composition, Macro Photography, Macro Photogrpahy, Mike Moats, Nik Software
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Since I had a week in between the two weekend Macro Boot Camps, I let my workshop participants know that if they had some time available I would go out and shoot with them during the week days. One great place where we shot was the San Diego Botanical Gardens.
Even though it was windy during my stay, and we couldn’t shoot the flowers, the botanical gardens has tons of cactus plants, agave plants, etc, to shoot that were not effected by the wind.
Here are two images of a Blue Flame Agave, and I really like the lines and how the tips work out.
Nikon D7000, Tamron 90, f/32
I used the Solarization filter in Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 for this look.
Here are the originals out of the camera.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: Macro, Mike Moats, Nik Software
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Finding Character In Nature is an e-book for the macro photographer that will help change the way you think the next time you go out to shoot.
The word character is often used to describe a person who is a little different from the general population. People who dress in a flamboyant manner or act differently have a unique style stand out in a crowd and are noticed by others. Photographic portraits often reveal a person’s individual character in the irregular features of their face and body. In the same way, photographic images can also highlight the distinctive qualities of subjects in nature. Finding the features that reveal the unique character of a flower, leaf, rock, or pattern in the earth will cause your images to stand out as distinctive artistic expressions of the natural world.
It’s easy to do, and you will learn how in this 43 page e-book.
Check it out in the OPG store here.
Tags: Ebooks, Macro, Mike Moats
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
I see lots of photographs of this simple Gerbera Flower, and I will say it is one of my favorites to shoot during the winter when I’m doing all my indoor shooting.
To many images made with flowers are shot from the front side, with little imagination. A flower has so many different angles that you have to explore all the possibilities.
Here is the typical frontal shot, and rather then place the flowers center in the middle of the frame like you see most photographers do, I’ve offset the center of the flower in the lower left corner. Because every part of this view has interesting designs I want everything in focus, so I set my f/stop as the highest number at f/22.
The next shot is also a frontal shot but I moved in closer and only included a quarter view of the flower center by placing it in the lower right side and making the image as a horizontal. Again I’ve set my f/stop at f/22 to bring the whole flower in focus.
Now I change the view to a side angle which has great potential for some abstract images. With these abstracts I want a nice soft focus and I set the f/stop wide open to f/2.8. The f/2.8 will give me very limited depth of field and a nice soft feel. In this first image I run the line of the tips of the petals from the lower corner to the upper corner of the frame. I place the focus on the two tips in the lower left corner. Your eye always goes to the sharpest part of the image which is the two lower tips, and then your eye follows the line of the petals up into the frame.
The next shot is another side view, but now in a vertical position and moved the camera to capture just a little bit of the sepal in the lower right corner. Same f/stop as last shot. Focus on the tips of the petal in the center of the frame.
I work my way a little father on the backside so you now see the view of the under side of the petals and a little more of the green sepal. F/stop still at f/2.8. These images have a really nice look with that soft focus caused by the wide open aperture.
The last shot is still a side angle but much more of the green sepal and a little stem in view. Turned this one as a vertical and placed the point of focus in the center where the tips of the sepal and the purple petals meet. Still on wide open at f/2.8. You could also shot this with the higher f/stop and more depth of field to bring in all the nice textures of the green sepal.
We have only explored six angles, but they are many more possibilities. So be creative and explore next time to work with a single flower!
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: angles, composition, Flowers, Macro, Mike Moats
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So You Want To Be A Pro Nature Photographer
Monday, June 20th, 2011I see many times people posting interest in taking their hobby of nature photographer to the pro level. Myself and I’m sure other pros have people that contact them asking for advice on what it takes to make a living in this field. My response is that from my experience it’s a seven day work week and can be tough on your family life. I work about forty weekends a year so any family birthdays, holidays, christenings, father and mothers days, sports, concerts, etc, are many times missed. This is much like the entertainment world, pro athletes, traveling salesman, or any other profession that requires you to be on the road many days a year.
Nature photography is one of the toughest fields of photography to make a living in. I’ve found that for me being diversified is the key to making it. Having multiple streams of income keeps the money flowing. Those streams all take a lot of time to keep them flowing.
Marketing is number one, nobody knows you’re alive and in business unless you tell them. Shameless self promotion is something you have to get used to and you need to be the type of person that doesn’t mind this type of marketing as some would consider this bragging about yourself, but it’s just getting the word out that you’re in business and having some success at what you’re doing. I spend a lot of my time marketing, I write a daily blog post, moderate on two photography sites including my own “Macro Nature Forum”, post images, post on Facebook and Twitter, and reply to photographers sending me emails with questions.
I display my images in about twenty art shows a year. This takes up twenty of my weekends, many away from home. The shows start in May and run until October and consume almost every weekend for those months. Some of the shows I’m gone on Friday and return on Monday, leaving me Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, to print, package, and pack for the next weekend. During the winter months I’m going though the process of applying to these shows, which is filling out applications, sending images for the jury process, writing out checks for show fees, etc, keeping it all organized so I have a show every weekend. Taking time to keep track of materials and doing all the ordering and always trying to find the best prices. During the winter when I apply to these shows the jury fees and booth fees run about seven thousand dollars, which I won’t see again for months.
During the art shows off season I’m presenting my workshops. I do about twenty workshops which are on weekends. This take time promoting the workshops, adding them to my website and blog, sending out emails and post cards, posting them on nature photography websites, posting on Facebook, etc. Working with the hotels on setting up rooms for the workshop all across the country. Planning the workshops and how they will run. Shooting images for examples in what I’m teaching in the workshops, and constantly updating the material presented at the workshops. Many days each year are spent on the road driving to and back from the workshops and art shows.
Wow, I’m already tired and I haven’t scratched the surface on what I do. While all this craziness is going on with the art shows and workshops,
I have to maintain my moderator duties online.
I work with art consultants that buy images for their design projects, print the images, package, ship, and invoice them.
I contact companies that would be willing to sponsor me, work with them when they need images for ads, photo conventions, sometimes even go to photo convention for them. I send them promos for my workshops that they can list on their websites.
I do online workshops, which takes time again promoting, critiquing the participants shooting assignments.
I have a how to macro book that took time to write and have printed, I have to maintain stock at Amazon, maintain on my store front sales, packaging and shipping to customers.
I have five e-books completed and am working on more. Again more promotion, sales and sending the e-books online. I also make them into CDs to sell at the workshops and art shows.
I’m working on how-to macro videos for You tube.
I travel and present programs for camera clubs, photo conventions, garden clubs for flower photography, have done some at REI stores.
Send submission to magazine with article ideas, and once accepted working with the mag to set-up the article and images. Invoice them.
Send out information introducing myself to new art consultants, interior designers, calendar companies. etc. reply to their emails as they contact me asking questions about pricing, printing, etc.
I maintain a blog which I write and post as frequently as possible and I write when possible for Tamron’s blog. Post on facebook any updates on workshops, art shows, and any other happenings.
Maintain a website, posting new images updating art shows and workshop schedules.
I will visit and sell through art galleries, so time is spend traveling to the galleries maintaining stock.
I have companies that contact me for stock images, negotiate, send files, and invoice them.
I get to beta test new products for companies, and they always wait till the last minute to send you the product and need a response NOW! Take time to work with the product, Email back and forth with response.
I have charities that call and ask for print donations which I always do. Deal with emails, set-up time to make contact with prints.
Take care of all the accounting, sales, taxes, keeping track of cost of running the business.
Working toward setting up webinars for live how-to macro workshops online.
Wow, all this work is making me tired, I need a nap.
Now are you starting to wonder why I haven’t mention anything about shooting. As you can see there is not much time left to shoot. It can be frustrating and hard to schedule time to shoot, as you have probably heard most pros say that the business takes up ninety percent of their time. I do make time to shoot but it has to be scheduled at the peak times which for me are the spring and fall. The summer I almost never get out to shoot as the art shows consume so much time.
I have to say I’m pretty sure there are a few more thing I do, but I think you’re getting the point. If I tried to make it on any one of these streams alone it would be tough, but with a little income coming from all these streams I do very well, but I sacrifice a lot of time and family life to maintain this business.
I have to say even with all the work I do I can’t wait to wake up in the morning at five o’clock and get to work! I wouldn’t trade what I do with anything else. I always tell people where else can you work where people are complimenting you while handing you money!
Good luck if you give it a shot.
You can visit Mike's blog and learn about his workshops here: Tiny Landscapes
Mike's eBooks are available in the OPG store here: Mike Moats
Tags: Mike Moats, Nature Photography, photography business
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