RE: [APML] AP for a Living?

["Loke Tan" <tan@cox.net>]

It's because most AP pictures are not worth much in the open market. You
can't make a living doing this. Even fishing is better than AP <g>. At least
you can catch a few large tunas once in a while which can fetch a good price
per pound.

Loke



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
Behalf Of Jerry Lodriguss
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 5:35 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: Re: [APML] AP for a Living?


At 11:21 AM 9/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone here know of anyone, anywhere, who makes his or her living
>solely from imaging? Not including professional research astronomers, of
>course. I'm thinking of someone who lives off of selling pretty images to
>the public.


The only person I know of, out of 3 billion plus people on the planet, was
David Malin. (No, he is not a professional research astronomer, despite
what you may have heard.)

And now Tony says Bill Fletcher.

Ok, two people on the entire planet. Amazing.

Can anyone think of any other job that has that few people making a living
at it?

Jerry



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