Working for my current employer, I get the opportunity to do quite extensive traveling as a contractor for the EPA. It's all of this traveling that gets me the opportunity to visit various places, mostly along the East coast, and get some great stock and travel photography. Once I get settled in to a new city, I immediately go on line and look for nearby nature preserves and research the city's history. This usually gives me enough information and locations to go shooting for a few weekends especially the nature preserves as I love to camp out and wait for the perfect shot. Not only does this let me relax in my element of looking through the view finder but it also has let me build up a nice collection for R&B Photography and my portfolio. The attached image was taken at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, NY. It is located in a very industrial area where I never would've stopped if it wasn't for Mapquest telling me that this was the place I was trying to find (this is where the research was very helpful). After realizing that I had quite a collection of travel photography, I decided to see if I could go ahead and sell the better ones as stock. After researching and asking on forums for stock photography sites, I ended up applying at Photoshelter (http://www.photoshelter.com/). I went through the process and they reviewed and commented on my images and were happy to report that they had been accepted (I was so happy). I am in no way associated or sponsored by Photoshelter but if you are looking to get into stock photography jump on over to their website and check them out.
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