Editors of top photography blog reveal their best money-making tips in 340-page book now available on Amazon.

New York, New York (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 — Photopreneur, the photography Web site (http://blogs.photopreneur.com) offering information and resources to help photographers make the leap from artist to entrepreneur, has released its first book, “99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos.” The 340-page softcover book is available on Amazon and by visiting the Photopreneur site at http://blogs.photopreneur.com/99-ways-to-make-money-from-your-photos.

Packed with insider tips, practical strategies, and case studies, “99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos” shares 99 creative ways to make images that generate cash. Each chapter reveals what to shoot, how to break in, and where to go to generate sales. Readers will learn how to sell stock, approach galleries, host their own exhibitions, earn money with Flickr, shoot for social networking sites, create and market photo products, form joint ventures, upsell their event photography and much, much more.

From beginners to enthusiasts and from hobbyists to professionals, “99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos” (http://blogs.photopreneur.com/99-ways-to-make-money-from-your-photos) can help anyone turn their passion for photography into a reliable source of income.

Leading executives, entrepreneurs and photographers praise the book:

Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president, Fotolia –

“An excellent guide to both novice and experienced photographers. Whether you’ve just invested in your first digital camera or you’ve got an image library spanning years, this book will give you a step-by-step resource for capitalizing on your images.”

Jeff Beaver, co-founder, Zazzle.com –

“’99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos’ is a great resource for any photographer serious about turning their passion for photography into real money.”

Andreas Reinhold, engineer and freelance car photographer –

“A great guide for those who want to start earning money with their photos. Several of the shown ways to earn money with photography (http://blogs.photopreneur.com) work for me and some of the given hints were new and proved to be successful. This guide is so comprehensive that any photographer should be able to find a good starting point to get his business going.”

Authored by the editors of Photopreneur and published by New Media Entertainment, Ltd., “99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos” has a list price of $34.95.

Note to media and bloggers: Please contact Cathy Baradell if you are interested in a review copy of “99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos.”

About Photopreneur

Photopreneur is one of the Web’s top photography sites (http://blogs.photopreneur.com/about-the-photo-community), featuring stories, interviews and expert marketing advice. Its editors bring together decades of experience at the highest levels of professional photography. The Photopreneur team combines rigorous research, marketing creativity and a deep understanding of the photography business to help photographers – professional, enthusiast and occasional – earn income from their images. Photopreneur is owned by New York City-based New Media Entertainment, Ltd (http://www.nme.net/). Check out Photopreneur at http://blogs.photopreneur.com.

One of the earliest photographs in existence sold for $62,500 at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.

The photo, which was estimated to bring in anywhere from $50,000 to $70,000, was sold to an unidentified buyer.

The 5.5-by-4-inch, black and white daguerreotype shows a New York country estate.

The half-plate daguerreotype dating from 1848 shows what was then known as old Bloomingdale Road and referred to as “a continuation of Broadway.”

As usual, the photographer will never see a penny

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I have been driving around my Macbook Pro with my new version of Photoshop CS4, trying to learn all the little nuances hidden under the hood. Somehow I got sidetracked and ended up at istockphoto.com looking at textures. Don’t ask me how, it just happens when one has a period of boredom, followed by flashes of inspiration and then some temporary forms of ADHD. Anyway, so I did a search on textures as I wanted to work with some layers in Photoshop and play around with some images I shot over the weekend in Seattle. Not having any textures at the ready, I found this one of a tuscan wall that I figured would work perfect. Yeah I had to pay for it, but I wanted it now and did not have my Europe images close by and the time to spend hours hunting for a texture. Besides I I started looking at my old Europe CD’s, I’d end up on some other tangent and never accomplish my goal , so I bought it.

Originally I was going to use and image of Post Alley by the Pike Place Market, but felt that the Seattle image would work a lot  better. In the upper left corner, you can see the original texture file as well as the Seattle photo I used.

So, let’s see step by step how I created this.

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Back in 2002 I took a two week trip through Thailand and Cambodia as a tourist.  I learned of a culture I had only read about and envisioned in my mind, when I first heard the Rush song, “Passage to Bangkok”

This is a reprint of an article I wrote for Pilot Guides.com , with larger full size images. I have since learned the tribe is the Akha Tribe and not Hmong as originally noted in the article.

A Day in the Land of Smiles

Driving through the lush green hills of Northern Thailand, Tony the guide and interpreter, would help with pronunciation of various Thai words and teach counting to help pass the time. One can get “Wat’d out” as there are so many Wats to see, so a change of pace would be nice. There are emerald green mountains with rice paddies sprinkled throughout. Each paddy usually has a thatched hut, for shelter from the blazing heat. The paddies are flooded with about 18″ of water and usually separated in four to six distinct parcels about an acre each. The roads are shared with motorcycles, carts, bicycles, cars, everything. It seemed like chaos at first, but is now more of an orderly chaos in my mind. We would drive from one change of scenery to the next. Each corner would bring the beauty of a mountain, jungle, rice paddy or a cow on the side of the road, grazing. On the highway, it is not uncommon to see a farmer, herding his cows in the median as cars drive by at 60-70mph. The cows are usually tethered, however.

I always had a romantic view of what it would be like to go to Thailand and the hill tribes seemed to be the ultimate in this regard. I guess in some ways I had this feeling that the 20th century had not arrived to these far off reaches of society. But with a paved road that goes right up to the village, I found this was not to be. Right before the entrance to the village a rice paddy to the right had some wicked clouds that would soon dump rain on the area and then disappear 15 minutes later.

When we first arrived, we were greeted by a swarming of children. As we got out of the van, the echo of “Ten Baht” could be heard everywhere. They immediately ask for money just for you having the privilege of being in their village. Tony had to do a bit of crowd control. The chatter of “Ten Baht” and “You buy” envelopes your senses and it is extremely frustrating as the romantic ideal of being in a hill tribe village, fades. I really was ready to leave after about ten minutes of the high pitched, pitch for money. Some of the children were selling bracelets made of seeds and/or yarn, which I gladly paid 5 or 10 Baht for. Just to help, without throwing money at the children…. continued at break

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