I’m sure I’m not the only blogger who’s thought it would be great fun to work as a nature photographer. All you do is run around with your camera, right? and take pictures of wildlife and birds and beautiful sunsets, which you’d be doing anyway.
Ha! Think again, my friends. Read this post from Mike Moats, an outstanding nature photographer, who knows whereof he speaks: So You Want To Be A Nature Photographer.
It’s not all bad news. After explaining all the work, and especially the non-photography work, that goes into a successful business in this field, Mike ends by saying,
I have to say even with all the work I do I can’t wait to wake up in the morning at five o’clock and get to work. I wouldn’t trade what I do with anything else.
So we’re right, it is fun. But it’s also work.
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My next door neighbour makes his living as a nature photographer. He returned from a trip to Cape York Peninsula where he photographed palm cockatoos and hadn’t even unpacked his car when he got a call to go out to the far west of the state to photograph huge flocks of buderigars that had bred up after recent rains. On the one hand, it sounds terribly romantic; but on the other, it’s a load of hard work. Still, the results are brilliant.
I’d love to travel and take photos and see all the wildlife, but I wouldn’t want to live on what I could earn by doing so!
I have no doubt that this is difficult work. Not to mention, it requires a skill level not everyone has. That being said, it has an office space that cannot be beaten.
Can’t argue with either point, Scienceguy! I appreciate how difficult it is to do well based on my own experience. The masters of photography make it look easy, but it’s not.
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