How to make money off photography hobby?

Have you got a flickr or redbubble account where you can provide us with a link, so that we can see for ourselves? Unless you are EXCEPTIONALLY good, the market for 'Nature' photography is very minimal.

This article has some very useful information on making money with stock photography - websites like istockphoto, bigstockphoto and shutterstock. http://www.articlesbase.com/photography-articles/how-to-earn-money-on-nature-photography-1363176.html

Set up a website and offer to take local pictures for people's weddings, barmitzvahs, gardens, etc. You don't need to make photography your career in order to contribute to a magazine, newspaper or website. Consider joining a photography club. Now and then they usually have auctions and receptions where pictures are up for sale. Good luck!

The best method for selling Nature photography is of course through exhibitions. People generally love to put up Nature Landscapes in their home walls. And those who are interested in art/landscapes often visit exhibitions. The other way is to contact the art stores, who sell frames photographs to customers. Unless you are well known in the field, the photos wont sell so easily. These people often ask you to put your photos in their stores and if they sell off, you get the money and they get their commission. The third option is to sell them to tourism websites. You may contact them directly with low resolution photos from your collection, or better still visit their office with your portfolio. If they like, you may get highly paid for giving license of your photos to them.

Have your photos of your local area printed as postcards and take a load to nearby stores etc. People are almost always happy to stock locally relevant stuff. Sort out the percentage they will take etc and see how it goes. Equally, local cafes and restaurants will be pleased to display local images, in frames, on the walls. Just stick a price on them and you'll make some sales. You could even take a stall to a local art fair - just one day and you will definitely sell prints there. Here is some more information: http://www.photography-art-cafe.com/how-to-sell-photos-offline.html It's also well worth while backing all this up with a website. You can include the address on post cards, and stick it to the back of framed prints, to direct people who've bought them to your online galleries. RedBubble is a good place, so is SmugMug - they allow you to sell pictures (cards, prints etc) without doing any of the legwork yourself. They do all the printing, shipping and so on so it won't eat into your time. Setting up your own website can easily be done too. Wix. com have some excellent templates for photographers. Plus you could give stock photography a go! I've used istock photo and fotolia the most - really good ones. More advice on this: http://www.photography-art-cafe.com/how-to-sell-photos-online.html

You can try your luck on microstock sites. There you can sell licenses for the usage of you digital image files. Here's a list of such sites: http://www.maigi.com/maigidesign/pildipangad.php Also you can set up your Zazzle account, where you can sell postcards and posters: http://www.zazzle.com/?rf=238275595751652200

If you think you have arrived, hold an exhibition of the prints of your photograph in your city or the nearest urban center. The feed back from there would give you a direction. Try to reach the corporations (corporate sector), one of the patrons of art work.

You could: A) Get a job for a magazine/website that specializes in tourism or nature and sell them the pictures B) Be a wedding photographer. You'll be busy every weekend for the rest of your life, but you'll make a shitload of cash. C) ... Yeah. Those two are really all I've got.