Quote from: WarrenPrice on January 16, 2010, 16:27Spying sucks.  Too many travel restrictions after you retire.   

The same goes for Popes. Although they never retire. They just die on the job.

dp

my portfolio shows many of my interests - adventure travel, history, cooking, skiing, duplicate bridge

i used to lead trips to india, nepal, turkey & china, but now my website is more focused on providing information and linking travelers directly with agents we've used in those countries

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Outside of microstock ...

I love to spend time with my wife and kids (16, 13, 4), invest, fly a private plane, traveling in general,  indoor rock climbing (I hope to expand this to outdoors in the near future), skiing, trips to Las Vegas, bargain shop at garage sales, thrift stores and flea markets, computers, technology, eating out, shopping, family vacations, studying foreign languages and always to be open to try new things.


-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com

I'm Technical Director in a videogame company. I make videogames: the most useless job in the world, but that's always been my dream, so, hopefully, I will never quit it.
Outside of that I travel as much as I can around europe, shoot, I take my camera wherever I go.

I have a full time teaching job, kids who are 2 and 3 y.o., and a run-down house and garden that needs tending. One of the kids was born with a paralyzed arm, tests have just shown that the other one is almost deaf. So the next years will be spent running between work, physiotheraphy, sign language classes etc. Microstock photography is my escape.

Quote from: gaja on January 19, 2010, 19:33
I have a full time teaching job, kids who are 2 and 3 y.o., and a run-down house and garden that needs tending. One of the kids was born with a paralyzed arm, tests have just shown that the other one is almost deaf. So the next years will be spent running between work, physiotheraphy, sign language classes etc. Microstock photography is my escape.

gaja....sounds like you have your hands full. Thanks for sharing that. It can see why photography is your escape

Quote from: donding on January 19, 2010, 19:49

Quote from: gaja on January 19, 2010, 19:33
I have a full time teaching job, kids who are 2 and 3 y.o., and a run-down house and garden that needs tending. One of the kids was born with a paralyzed arm, tests have just shown that the other one is almost deaf. So the next years will be spent running between work, physiotheraphy, sign language classes etc. Microstock photography is my escape.

gaja....sounds like you have your hands full. Thanks for sharing that. It can see why photography is your escape

I am very grateful that I have this community, where I can get so much different input and learn so much from people all around the world.

Quote from: gaja on January 19, 2010, 19:33
I have a full time teaching job, kids who are 2 and 3 y.o., and a run-down house and garden that needs tending. One of the kids was born with a paralyzed arm, tests have just shown that the other one is almost deaf. So the next years will be spent running between work, physiotheraphy, sign language classes etc. Microstock photography is my escape.

That is a very busy life!  You are my new hero (no sarcasm here)!

I wouldn't worry about the run-down house or overgrown garden.  Sounds like your priorities are where they should be, on your family.  Trust me - when you clean up your house and landscape the garden it all just goes to pot again very quickly, but the time invested in your kids will be what matters ITLR.

windsurfing, guitar and music, nature 

Quote from: lisafx on January 19, 2010, 23:45That is a very busy life!  You are my new hero (no sarcasm here)!

I just noticed that gaja is exclusive on DT, so it's useless to ask her referral link for Depositphotos. I really get annoyed by some screaming their referral links all over the place all the time, so I'll sign up there using Donna (Donding) as a referral. I'll need to install Google Chrome for that since my Firefox is probably tainted by accidentally clicking on the links of the screamer.

Since being laid off over a year ago, MicroStock has become my full time job and then some (I spend about 80 hours a week on it).  But life does rear its ugly head and intrude on my work time...

My daughter is in her school band, she takes piano lessons and voice lessons, and she's in girl scouts (my wife is the scout leader), so she takes up a lot of my time (thankfully).  My wife works for a local radio station so we get free tickets to stuff all the time (went to a hockey game last night, going to a basketball game tomorrow night, concert next week, etc.).  I used to say no whenever she'd ask me to do all this stuff, but now I say yes most of the time.  Partially because it forces me to take a break from my "work" and mostly because I'm learning to enjoy the time spent with my family (recovering work-a-holic).

I sing and put it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngerAnna

Quote from: dnavarrojr on January 31, 2010, 13:42
Since being laid off over a year ago, MicroStock has become my full time job and then some (I spend about 80 hours a week on it).  But life does rear its ugly head and intrude on my work time...

My daughter is in her school band, she takes piano lessons and voice lessons, and she's in girl scouts (my wife is the scout leader), so she takes up a lot of my time (thankfully).  My wife works for a local radio station so we get free tickets to stuff all the time (went to a hockey game last night, going to a basketball game tomorrow night, concert next week, etc.).  I used to say no whenever she'd ask me to do all this stuff, but now I say yes most of the time.  Partially because it forces me to take a break from my "work" and mostly because I'm learning to enjoy the time spent with my family (recovering work-a-holic).

80 hours per week ?

Quote from: iahulbak on July 29, 2010, 10:10
I sing and put it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngerAnna

That was beautiful! It seems there is a fair amount of musicians here, mostly singers tho. Lisa sings too... I sing and compose.
We could make a band and earn some extra money, lol

I used to fly with paraglider, but I had to sell it to buy a camera. I love playing with my son and my nephew. I'm taking them to the country side very often. We walk there and they always have million questions for me.

Here is the only video of my band that I managed to save and upload to youtube. It was 10 years ago. 
I can't believe I'm posting this here, but here I go.

Four children and a lawn that need constantly cutting!

I play the guitar, piano and harmonica, and love folk music. Love reading, read the 21 Partick O'Bien novels on the bus to work with my old job! Anything to do with history stirs my soul.

Nice videos!

My life away from work is my family.

Oldhand

your question just made me realized that i DONT have a life away from microstock. i can tell you that while have a full time job and decent income from microstock is not easy! i personally have given up all my free time and hobby for microstock, but luckily i'm still very happy when i'm shooting stock.

hey,

so many musicians. i am one too, play the guitar, sing, compose.
my band: www.myspace.com/middledge.

i am not doing so much for microstock at the moment, more for conventional photography. events, portraiture and the like.

beachhhhhh!!!

- paddling (kayaks, canoes) with a camera(s)  - http://photokayaker.fit2paddle.com/

- long distance paddle racing like Missouri River 340 - http://race.fit2paddle.com/

- 1/2 time scientist, working on a book, trying to return back to science (maybe not hard enough) and make microstock a hobby  ...

How dare you imply I have a life!!!  hahaha  At times it seems it's only microstock - so sad.

I was going to say that I play guitar, but when I sow Dreamframer's video and Simsi's songs I decided to stay quiet.

Quote from: Kone on July 29, 2010, 16:41
I was going to say that I play guitar, but when I sow Dreamframer's video and Simsi's songs I decided to stay quiet.

I see this will be more than a band... more like a real orchestra

Yes I do. But I do not earn enough in microstock to make it a life .
But I want very much to success, so I am now trying very hard to make less time for  life so I can make microstock my life .

Quote from: iahulbak on July 29, 2010, 10:10
I sing and put it on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IngerAnna

Great! Liked and favorited it. I thought all Nørske girls were blond.