only looked at one page but like the ones of weston pier many a happy
hour spent on there with kids and the torquay photo brings back some memories.
no expert but they look good to me plenty work in photography ever thought
of doing it for a living? especially as you seem to enjoy it so much 
I'd love to do it for a living, but very very hard to make any decent money out of it these days.
Since the advent of digital everyone's a photographer.
If you're good at editing you can make any shot look good.
Short of setting up a stall in the market, there's not a lot you can do with them.
Even then, people will stop and look and say "Ooh, isn't that lovely", but there's a world of difference between that and them actually paying £75 or so and walking off with it.
Press work is crap now too, as everyone's got a camera on their phone, so there's no exclusive scoops.
A picture of a singer fighting outside a club may have fetched £20,000 in the past.
Now it's virtually worthless, as the punters will be pointing their phones at it.
Newspapers are very low resolution, so a phone shot is good enough.
Weddings aren't bad money, but we're overrun with top guys around here.
Besides, taking people pictures doesn't really interest me.
I'm still looking at ways to make money though.
At least this job is flexible enough to make a start in something else.
Rog. If you were a pro photographer, you would probably get the sort of customers that would expect to sit still for 30 seconds while the photo was still being made and they would want you to hold a lamp up in the air while you peered through the lens with a dark cloth over your head.
I don't get that, sorry. 
Squeaky, I am a photographer, or was. I worked for Kodak and have an HND in photography. I have photographed all sorts of people, mostly sports people and the like although we did do Take That for a publicity shot that was never used. We used to run the press centre at wimbledon every year which sounds great but was a real slog.
I worked in the Daily Mail for about six months on loan when they were setting up their colour darkrooms.
When I got made redundant from Kodak the one thing I was sure about was that there was no way I was going to try and go it alone as a photographer. I had seen a lot of our customers struggling over the years and the prospect of joining them didn't appeal.
So when redundancy loomed on the horizon I signed up to do the taxi knowledge for London. It took me three years to get my licence but at least I could go out and earn a wage every day regardless.
I still have my licence although I haven't got a cab anymore. Its hard in London with all that traffic and I find window cleaning less stressful. My round has grown and grown and I wouldn't have time to drive a cab anymore.
I still go to exhibitions and galleries occasionally. There is an Ansell Adams exhibition on in Oxford I would like to go and see. Also, they have photographic exhibitions at the National Portrait gallery and the Photographers Gallery in London.
Good luck with your photography but I agree with your assesment of the long term career prospect.
