Arnab Banerjee

Very interesting article, Michael. I loved your perspective and general discussion on how one can think of developing a style. One thing that you could have added: a little personal description of your style with illustration of some of your photos (which are here, but I miss the linkage with the thoughts that you presented). In my opinion, that would be helpful to digest some of the concepts. Overall, a great piece that I enjoyed reading

Ian: I don't ever take you seriously, but you are making a very loyal Nikon shooter jealous

Great article Lon. I have been situations like this before - and I am sure many can relate to this issue. But the transformation piece at the end is cool - I really like how you described it. The last image is just too good

This is a great article - nothing like it I have ever seen here. Thanks a lot

Thanks both Mike and Ian and all others who enjoyed it. Ian - you are more than welcome to join me, but I am not sure when I will go back. I will keep you in the loop

Great article. Great info - the country is in my list to visit. But I also wanted to know it from a landscape photog's perspective - any links on that?

I always enjoy your writing here Sam. There is a lot of material out there - in print or web - loaded with advice of how to turn pro. You did a good job pulling all the pieces in this one. One pro photog once told me "if you want to focus on photography, dont turn pro" - it was funny, as he was refering to huge amount of time one spends on business side of photography than the actual shooting after turning into full-time pro. Photogs are also, by instinct, artist - not business people - so it's hard for them to manage a business. Networking and marketing has become a lo

A lot of interesting information. But I thought that some of the ideas were seriously flawed - cost based pricing will never work in artwork (for simple reason that one will not be able to calculate the real cost -as the cost of hard material is only a tiny portion). Volume based pricing is tricky as well as you are coming up with a total sales figure beforehand - how will you do that? The more straightforward approach is probably market-based pricing - look around to see at what price market is buying similar artwork and let that be your guideline. This is also related to value-base