What are the sources of income for a nature photographer?
. Don’t hope in magazines. Usually they pay little money (in particular in Italy!). Sometimes you may sell some photos or articles at a good price, but it is an exception. . Avoid as the plague the micro-stock agencies! These agencies often accept easily collaborations even from beginner photographers, but they pay you 0.50 $ or 1$ per photo…at the end of the day, the agency get a very good income because they sell a lot of photos at ridicule prices, while the photographer get something like 30-40$ per month if he is lucky…avoid, avoid, avoid micro stock and royalty free!!! You won’t make a living from it, and you will contribute to make this work even more difficult to all other photographers (many times I have been told by magazines… “you have great photos, but we won’t buy from you because we can get almost free photos on Istock…they are not as good as yours, but they are almost free!”). . Serious agencies as Corbis or Alamy allows to get a better income, but 1) to get a goo
