Selling pictures is really a matter of having the right image in front of the right person at the right time. How to do this is a major challenge. There are simply too many photo sites on the internet to know where to look for a picture and buyers don’t have the time to trawl through hundreds of sites after googling keywords. It also helps to be able to write a short and well researched story to go with the picture – at least this is true in the case of magazine editors. The picture also needs to be topical. There are also many, many photographers happy to have their images published for a byline. Another important factor is that it’s not about the camera. I’ve had six separate pictures published in three of the big magazines recently – all taken with a Canon compact (I’m not a Canon fan either – the compact is easy to carry around). 😉