Thanks for the answer!
As of today, I’m mostly doing landscape photography during my trips.
However, I’m starting to experimenting with portraits and street.
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Street photography is my favorite kind. I’m going to replace my dying camera this year and hopefully get back to doing that again. I have an archive of old stuff going back 20 years but I don’t capture as much these days, just iPhone camera stuff which doesn’t have the same feel. 
Street photography is my favorite…
In Q1 of 2025, a new Ricoh GR is coming, and I can’t wait to replace my 10-year-old one - it’s my favorite street photography camera, ever.
Best part is that it fits into a pocket, so you can always have it with you!
I’m not sure how to monetize landscape, photography, but there’s always a demand for head shots and portraiture. You can start on apps like Fiverr, Thumbtack, learn how to retouch other peoples photos for extra work, or put together a small portfolio and competitive pricing, and start accumulating business that way.
Thanks for the suggestion!
For now, I’m monetizing a little here on nostr (“ain’t much, but it’s honest work”) with landscapes. I was also thinking about prints and something like that.
For the rest, I will take a look at what you suggested :)
Consider finding photography communities and entering your work into contests. Even if you don't think your stuff is *good enough* it gets you familiar with the process and motivates you to keep improving.
You can try selling some of your work through stock sites and/or make limited high quality prints that you can try selling through various channels—art fairs, Nostr, etc.
Find other successful nature photographers and see if there is anything you can glean from them as far as how they monitize their work.
This is all stuff you can do for street photography as well.
I have more experience with portraits. Much easier to monetize. You can offer senior photos, family photos, or professional headshots to people in your network first and expand out from there. A lot of my early business was just word of mouth and people knowing I am a photographer.
The portraiture options I listed above are all a bit different and come with their own challenges (family photos in particular are tricky when there are young children and pets included) so it is wise to tackle one and get good at it before expanding.
Something important to cultivate with portraiture too is interpersonal skills in the form of calm direction of models, good bedside manner, and being courteous of people's time, insecurities, intentions for the photos, etc.
One last note. An idea a friend of mine implemented was to let people know that he is available on certain days at certain times in a fixed location for headshots. If someone in his network would like one they can book 20-30 minutes. Good way to keep the variables fixed and have people *come to you* so to speak.
Hope this is helpful! You're welcome to DM me if you want to chat further.