The Retirement Newsletter: Photography in retirement — hobby or side-hustle?

Issue Number: -39 — Eight ways you can make money from photography

Photo by Author — skiing in Austria

Welcome

Welcome the issue -39 — photography in retirement — side-hustle or hobby?

I have written about this in issue -84 — YouTube and Photos — hobby or side-hustle? and I thought I would revisit the photography side, as I hadn’t covered everything last time.

Photography — hobby or side-hustle?

As I said in issue -84, I am a photoholic. I love photos. I like looking at photos and taking (or, as is now said, ‘making’) photographs.

My interest in photography started at school, where I studied the subject for two years and sat and passed an exam. It wasn’t an easy course.

My exams in photography covered physics (it’s all about light and lenses), chemistry (this was back when you developed your photos, and you had to understand the chemical process), history (we studied the history of photography and had to be able to identify different photographic styles) and art (composition and developing an eye for the shot). I enjoyed the subject. I was great at all the theory but useless at the art.