How To Sell Stock Photos And Be Free To Travel In Your RV
I have been a photographer pretty much all my life it seems, but I decided to sell stock photos over 5 years ago. In fact, I really got into selling stock photos when my husband and I started looking for remote job opportunities when we started traveling full-time in our RV.
My husband Jim and I started traveling full-time in our RV in 2016. We love the freedom of being able to work from anywhere. I discovered that selling stock photos was one of the best remote jobs for me.
I remember loving photography and always having a camera in my hand throughout my high school years, and then after that too – once I got married and had my own kids, I photographed them A LOT! I have albums and albums and albums of photos of the little cuties all stored away while we travel in our RV.
How Did I Start Selling Stock Photos?
My love of photography turned into a career in portrait photography about 14 years ago when we lived in Illinois. I photographed babies, families and high school seniors in my own studio that I had purchased and run myself. The studio was part of everything we sold off when we decided to change our lifestyle and go full time RV traveling. However, I could NEVER put my camera down, and I love being able to earn an income while traveling in our RV and doing what I love to do best! So I learned to Sell Stock Photos! Now I can travel in our RV wherever I want, take photos while I’m there, and upload them to my stock image sites to make some extra money! I also take photos of food and upload those to my stock image sites, as they seem to sell very well!
See Where I Sell Stock Photos
You can get a peek at my Shutterstock portfolio HERE for a great example of what I do. I also upload photos to Getty, Dreamstime, 123RF and Adobe Stock! Between these 5 agencies, I make a fairly decent little side income (and I continue to grow my portfolio more and more and earn even more money while we travel in our RV!)
Do You Want To Learn To Sell Stock Photos Online?
If this is something that you might be interested in, my friend Teri – who sells stock photos out of Denver, CO and myself wrote an Ebook called Earn Extra Income Selling Your Photos On Stock Photography Agencies. It’s all about how to get started in the business of selling stock photos online. Here’s a peek at our Table Of Contents so you can get an idea of all that this Ebook covers!
This Ebook will give you all the information you need to get started making an income from selling stock photos! And, many of these stock image sites now accept IPhone/Smartphone photos, so you don’t even need a ton of fancy equipment to get started!! If you have a camera in your hand (your phone) all the time anyways, you may as well sell stock photos online!
Need a little help to learn photography and learning how to use your DSLR camera? Creative Live has been my go-to site for everything related to learning photography. Their photography classes are informative and have been oh so helpful to me over the years if there is a new technique I have wanted to learn. And right now you can join Creative Live and get unlimited access to all of their videos for as low as $25 a month! You can learn everything from basic photography lessons, composition, lighting, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, how to sell stock photos and many many more classes! You can join Creative Live HERE! If you don’t want to commit right now to unlimited access to all of their videos, I recommend you take THIS STARTER CLASS where you will get basic photography lessons like shutter speed, f-stop, ISO, composition, depth of field and focusing. You can purchase this class by clicking HERE! If you combine the two pieces – the EBOOK and the STARTER PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS, you would have all the information you need to start a stock photography business and you could be uploading images to stock image sites within a matter of just days!
While Selling Stock Photography is by no means a get-rich-quick type of job (it takes time, effort and perseverance!), it sure has been a FUN job! I really enjoy being able to make an income while traveling in our RV by selling stock photos! Happy Shooting!!
For other ideas of how to make money while traveling in your RV, check out this post on Freelancing! Or have a look at our general overview of How To Work From Your RV.
