Who earns their livelihood photographing?

[pmack]

I voted popcorn, but would have ticked an option "it's a hobby, and I'm just starting out trying to see if i can sell images"

When i got into photography somewhat seriously 6 years ago, I would post surf images to a surf forum. Got an email out of the blue from someone wanting to by an image for a magazine. Was pretty stoked. My photography has now improved greatly (I hope), though the last 6 years I've not set up any kind of albums so no way to showcase my work, and no out of the blue requests for images. Now I've just started a wordpress travel photo blog for a long trip i'm on, and a few days ago starting linking the photos to a smugmug account to see if I can sell anything. Nothing yet, but early days.