Cruising Income

[Manie B]

What i would also like to add is that there is probably 2 types of income that we could talk about 1 = regular like Sheetwise and BHOFM suggest and 2 = "pocket money" like what i refer to as "daytrips"

none the less please keep on writting guys and when you see fit to expand give us some numbers = dollars pounds or whatever takes your fancy

 

[BHOFM]

BHOFM i loooove the idea of internet photography and as Mas pointed out in another thread "prostitution" these kind of things are very different in todays "computer world"
BUT one thing that i have come across where there could be opportunities is a "SEXY TRAVEL SHOW" a-la Caprice on DSTV. I have even found that blog pages of certain "travel diaries" that contain scantily clad / sexy females get more hits than the boring ones filled with endless technical details trying to sell books that are no different from any older books. With you been there for so long please give us some pointers as to how you would do it now in todays world if you had to do it again. How often, to what kind of customer, what kind of fees?

With the world what it is today, I am not sure I would
want to do it again! On top of 5 failed marriages and
a daughter I really don't know!
Looking for a place to sleep and eating food I really did
not want to know what it was!
I spent as much time on airplanes as I did the boat! Begging
magazine editors to just look at the photos! They like to
turn their noses up and act like they are doing you a favor
just giving you a handout!
Beach shots of hot babes don't have much value, unless
they are famous people! Just candid shots, with no model
release are worthless unless you can hook it to a news
story!
My main interest was F1 racing, magazines and calender
makers and book publishers at good customers, one shot
could be as much as $1000!

Here are a few $1000 shots:

So you can put a face with the name, this is me doing what
my second love! And you know what a Bald Headed Old Fat
Man looks like!

Wonder why people don't like to lend me their airplanes??

This is the Sasquatch I am married to flying our plane!

She really is a Sasquatch, she is 6'3"

 

[safewalrus]

Aye BH but as you say what some go for in pictures others can't stand! So you spend hours (days) waiting for the shot you can sell! Great when you hit gold, but I bet 'you got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince'

and with digital these days everyone is a 'David Bailey' ( you could cross this guy out and insert your favourite rich and posh photographer) ain't they?

 

[Butch .H]

BH You own that Texan. We used them for basic flight training,we call them Harvards in SA. I cut my teeth in them

 

[BHOFM]

BH You own that Texan. We used them for basic flight training,we call them Harvards in SA. I cut my teeth in them

The Texan, AT-6, belongs to the museum, that is also where
we keep the Stearman, they get to pay the insurance and
we have a place to store it! Only draw back, we have to
give them a couple weeks notice when we want to fly it.

 

[Butch .H]

Stearman mmmmmmm Can only dream.The SAAF are were selling the AT-6 off at one stage + - 40,000.00 South African Rands. Them radials are expensive to maintain.

 

[BHOFM]

Aye BH but as you say what some go for in pictures others can't stand! So you spend hours (days) waiting for the shot you can sell! Great when you hit gold, but I bet 'you got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince'

and with digital these days everyone is a 'David Bailey' ( you could cross this guy out and insert your favourite rich and posh photographer) ain't they?

I carried 40+ lbs of stuff and today, my new Fuji S1000
will do more and better than all the stuff I ever owned!
Plus it will take several thousand shots and it costs $0
to have them processed! I burned a lot of film in the
old days! Kimber was a model for many years, started
when she was 12, JC Pennys catalog, now she really
hates to have her picture taken! I had a small studio before
retiring, that is the dredges of the earth, kids, wedding,
old people that want to look young, young people that
want to look old! Fat people that want to look thin! And
the worst,, PETS, I hate cats, and I really don't care for
dogs!

Thanks to a group of Puerto Rican car thiefs most of my
pictures, negatives, trophies, and all of Kimbers pictures
are gone! Other than the death of my brother, it was the
worst thing that ever happened to me! It has been nearly
ten years, and I am as bitter as the day it happened!

The little silver one is Dads!

I have a passing interest in flight simulators as well, my
education is in aeronautical engineering, but I never did!
I did do some work in flight control systems for simulators
a few years back!

 

[safewalrus]

Comiserations on your loss BH, Lost a lot of camera gear when my old boat sank under me - never went back to it! (either of em). In some ways it brought me back to reality but the loss of all those memories can be daunting!

 

[masalai]

I do not recommend or suggest doing any "naughty stuff" in Melanesia - would only succeed in destroying the local culture and freedom to roam around and look....

The Islanders love action movies, like the old spagetti westerns or the "moralistic" adventures of "The lone Ranger", with 'Tonto' and his horse 'Silver', I guess the likes of "Shrek" and "Kung-Foo Panda" would also go down well.... - so a good collection of similar DVD's, a good projector, portable screen, "surround" sound system and quiet genset could help. - - repair and fixing small engines could be useful in the remote regions - trade for other stuff "just to help the communities and not make them feel shame at not paying for the services".....

The day charter thing (Port Vila), was out of a local beachfront hotel that had a long jetty which had no other use at the time so the boat was tied up there and would go out every day (in tourist/high season) with "pay as you board" US$20 per person, which included paying access to a beach/reef snorkelling area to a local landowner, serving morning tea there of fresh tropical fruit pieces, tea or coffee or kava, then on to "hideaway Island" for lunch (which the guests paid for there - a-la-cart, & I got a free feed for bringing them), there they could scuba at the island if no Kava was consumed, till about 2 pm when we sailed back to the "Rossi" for everyone to go their way.... usual load was about 12 paying guests.... - - - Now, I guess one must use a local captain, which would make the deal quite uneconomical?... and "booze" licences are another thing???? Lots of changes and lots more rules/laws imported to spoil paradise.....

 

[safewalrus]

How the world changes eh! unfortunately usually for the worst!!

 

[masalai]

Hello Safie, How ya goin lad?

 

[safewalrus]

'bout as confused as ever, you?