Photographers Still Making Sales on Flickr

and also Flickr. But Cahan isn’t just the tech-savvy founder of IntoNow, a start-up that Yahoo bought for between $20 million and $30 million. He’s also a former wildlife photographer for National Geographic who has contributed to Emmy award-winning nature shows. With a one-time professional photographer and full-time tech geek now in charge of what was once the Internet’s most important photo-sharing service, image-makers who want to make money from their shots should really be giving it another look.

They might well find what many professional photographer have long known: that Flickr can still deliver sales to photographers with the right images and the knowledge to reach buyers.

Chris Nuzzaco is one of those photographers. A former videographer and director of photography who shot occasionally, he switched disciplines in 2008 when the recession dried up orders and he realized that photographers had better working conditions, options and control.

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Making Pinterest Work for Photographers

fashion, for example, or electronic gadgets. They can repin images that they spot on other users’ boards, giving the best pictures the chance to go viral. They can also add comments and they can follow boards and pins to make sure that they don’t miss out on an interesting post.

The images might be pinned from the users’ own websites, to which they receive links, but they can also be pinned from anywhere. Any Pinterest user is free to copy someone else’s photo onto their board from where other members can duplicate it.

Not surprisingly, that level of openness has met with some concern from copyright holders. Like YouTube, the site tries to position itself as a

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Making Money with Instagram

says Danielle.

So far the firm has covered about five brand events that have included the Volvo Ocean Race, a sailing event held over six days in Miami, the launch for the new Costello Tagliapietra line at Barneys New York, and a campaign to promote Warby Parker’s new range of sunglasses. Danielle’s favorite job came when he was asked to cover a New York Rangers playoff game against the Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden. The company was hired by Delta, sponsors of the New York Rangers.

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