Let’s say that it is almost inpossible to earn your money by shooting aircraft (alone). The market is limited, and there is a very fierce competition. Apart from that, the payment isn’t that big eather. To make a photographic career in photography, it is better to look for other (photo) targets. If you want to try it in aviation photography, just sent in material to the mags. If it is refused, sent another batch, and again, and again and again. Someday, one of your pics get published and in due course (or maybe never) you get more regular publications. But keep in mind that you can not live from what you earn this way, unless you are part of the editorial team and you get your money every month. When I was a student at the universaty (some 23 years ago) I started as a photographer for the local paper, doing the graveyard shift (22.00 till 07.00) during weekends, which ment shooting car accidents most of the time. After being promoted to sports I stopped within 3 weeks (I hate football so I didn’t like to visit 12 or more games every weekend) and I started to work for a Dutch aviation mag. From than on I worked for more mags, and now I write/photograph for some 15 aviation mags in Europe and South America. However, I still can not live by the money I get paid for that, so I only shoot in the weekends, and from Monday to Friday I bore the students with 15th and 16th century language, history and sociology at a university.
BW Roger
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