Teen who wants to earn money with photography?

Forget selling photos. This takes years of hard work, having literally thousands of photos to sell, sitting on a website waiting to get noticed. The stock photo market has been destroyed anyway. Is it really worth your time to sell photos for $1 each? No, it isn't. You need to get people to hire you to take photos, that's where the money is...taking photos you have no buyer for will cost you a lot of money and time and bring little back. If you're an artist, go ahead and make art. Put up a website, talk to galleries, get exhibited. Eventually if you're good you'll sell something, but you won't really make a profit,so you do it for love of art. If you want to make money, you do assignment work. What I'm talking about is things like family portraits, senior portraits (of high schoolers), weddings. Those are all profitable, there is a big market for them because everyone buys these kind of photo services, and they don't require super expensive equipment like other types of professional photography (like product photography). I started doing weddings at your age. Then I went to art school, then started doing advertising photography and exhibiting my fine art photography. Today I live almost entirely from fine art sales, but it took 14 years to get here and I have suffered some terrible poverty, including being homeless for a while. I wanted to be an ARTIST though. I could have had an easy life if I had stuck to portraits and weddings. I still don't make a lot of money, but I make enough to support myself and my son (I have custody of him). We do ok now.

i dont know the answer to your question but, why don't you work part time at a studio such as Portrait Innovations, or at JCPennys or Sears' Portrait studio and do the picture taking...

Try Etsy.com. It's very affordable & as long as you have a credit card (like for a checking account) you can open your own shop. Check it out. They have a tutorial page on how to do it, what it costs, the rules, etc. My 2 little girls have their own shop and they are under 10 yrs.