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I received a $0.24 check from Verizon last week as part of my reward for a class action suit. OK, not for photography but still Good post, Joe. Interesting, as I am the same age as you and came up at the same time.

Knew people who knew you, and heard you were completely focused and driven. And alas, that’s why you’re “famous” and probably have a LOT more money in the bank than me. Anyhow, I somehow survived, raised a family, put kids through college one assignment at a time click.

To all of you starting out, what Joe says is true — not that you have any doubt. It is a life full of uncertainty and stress and, yes, some dark periods. Just 2 or 3 years ago I finally realized that it’s a great way to live! Making your living based on how you see the world in two dimensions, how crazy is that? But man, those prior 30 years, while they had their highlights, did have long periods where the next big assignment just didn’t materialize. Signed, Ted (duh, not my real name).

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says. It probably won’t make you feel any better, but I read your article and replaced the word photography with my business (website design and content creation) and it rung just as true. I think this is the way the world is going for most in the field of content creation and design.

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Up until last year, our company had an all-you-can-eat Thinkstock account. This year we turned it off because I decided we were being part of the problem. We’re trying to work more with local photographers to get what we need (and better quality). When we do use stock, we buy images as one-offs, which is more expensive for us and the client, but I always assume it means the photog at the end of the line makes more to. Your post, refreshing and candid, which is so great about you. I attended a pre-conference photo session you taught at a NAPP conference several years back.

I fell in love with your photography when I read about you in Susan McCartney’s book on Flash and saw your indoor-outdoor shot of a student in lab coat (NY’s Stuyvesant HS for Life) holding a gleaming beaker, with the outside NY cityscape lit up like a Christmas tree. Your innovation never ceases to amaze me. Here’s to a great 2014! I think it’s great that even though we are in two different stages of our photography careers we are having all of the same sort of feelings & are going through the same kinds of situations. All for the love of the shoot! There is one situation that you have been in that I have not, yet!

How do I go about getting paid through a business online? Did I mention that I’m new to the Photography Business? I’m not new to photography just the money side. Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Thank you so much, Ginny Hirst.

says. Joe, you should be grateful for small mercies, I appreciate it is a pretty small mercy. It was very nice to read your article, your thoughts on your mind, no wonder you have such great imagination if you can complete writing like that, being dyslexic I find it extremely difficult however it also makes me very creative. I have not yet taken the plunge and started my own business although the thoughts go through my mind each day I currently work for someone else, yes,oh yes, in an office. But do I long to do the job that you do, even though I know that there is a lot of heartache, I still haven’t managed to get over the fact that I need to pay the mortgage. Maybe one day at least when I retire I will be able to spend all my time taking photographs for me.

Great article Jo your big inspiration keep going love your work. Joe, what an incredibly inspirational post that was for me to read. I just tickled my toe in the waters of Professional Freelance Photography last year after years building up to it, and man it was scary – but there’s nothing else I want to do! It’s been in equal parts exhilarating and terrifying, and to know that someone so established can feel exactly the same things is such a relief. I should reach out to The Community more, support is good 🙂 Sounds like a great team you have around you! Re “I have this imagination, I guess you’d call it, about my pictures now, given Getty’s dominating presence in the field, and that family name’s history in the oil business. I conjure that my snaps now run in pipelines around the world, just like crude, but a lot less valuable, and get sloshed onto ocean going freighters, flying the Libyan flag, crewed by a vivid collection of multi-national sailors, insured out of the Netherlands and financed through the Bank of the Caymans.

They get transported here and there, and get sold at colorfully vibrant outdoor markets in port cities, say, on the west coast of Africa, pictures by the pound, auctioned off somewhere in between the livestock sales and bull semen futures. The sale gets rung up and then chopped, sliced, diverted, rounded off and otherwise divvied up among unknown but certainly necessary parties, and what makes its way back to my studio through routes apparently as circuitous as the Silk Road, is a remuneration, a sum, a check.for $1.32. You can have that 2nd career as a writer. Thanks for the chuckle, though it’s a morbid one.

Joe: I have not had the pleasure of taking in one of your programs in person. Seems I’ve been on the same schedule with you at NAP a few times in the past. I hope to become more familiar with your work in 2014 as I surely enjoyed you commentary here.

All I can say is “Been here and doing that!” I’ve hear nothing but positive things about your programs. Maybe we can get you to Bend, Oregon, for a seminar. We’d pay you more than $1.32. We’d also take you out into the Cascades to look for those better images that we continuously strive for. Really a great article!

You are a writer. Now if you / we photographers can show businesses, other businesses how to make money with our photographs then we really have a business that can will make sense. Why can’t we or don’t we do that. We’d to be more than feelings. They need to be calls to action.

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They need to motivate markets to action. When we can demonstrate the economic value of our pics to someone else we have a real business. And we need to stop crying about our income and focus on what we can do for others and their incomes. That’s what business is all about. Wanna be one start thinking like one.

Thank You Joe! I have been a faithful reader of your blog for a couple years now. What never stops amazing me is that your writing is just as good as your photography. Maybe in some cases better. This post is so good I just had to comment. I have been in love with Photography since I was 12.

It put me through college. It bought my first house. I died a little when digital took over. Thanks to you and your willingness to teach and share I am back in love in every way with taking pictures. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for your generosity.

The very best to you and your family in 2014. Wow, how the world of commercial photography has changed! I still recall reading an interview with Pete Turner in the late ’80’s. He talked about his relationship with The Image Bank, one of the top stock photo agencies at that time, and how he had made over $250,000 on his stock sales the previous year. As Pete said, “not a bad chunk of change”. Joe and I are about the same age, so I’m sure Joe recalls those days.

One thing has not changed; Joe McNally is still shooting great photos! All the best, Joe! Curt Clayton. Gerard Hilinski says. I understand what you mean Joe.

Thanks for sharing so candidly and honestly. We all aim high and try to control the outcome. We plan, and create backup plansyet so much of how 2014 will unfold is out of our hands. Do we expand? Do we scale down? Do more commercial stuff or shoot more our personal project? It like walking on a tightrope, as you pointed out, trying to balance food on the table and food for the soul on the other hand.

Wish you and every in the studio the best in the Year of Horse!