With tax season well underway, I am getting emails from fellow photographers who are asking me if they should treat their photography income as a business or not. It is of course an important decision, especially when the IRS knows that one has a photography income. For example, many of my fellow photographers participate in Flickr/Getty [...]
I’ve been upgrading my gear here and there in the past few months. I prefer buying things new, because I’m a strong believer in warranties and reselling goods later. However, as I was shopping for a couple of new lenses, I learned a few things about the used photo gear market. I thought I might [...]
If you are a Blackberry user like me who also happens to love outdoors, there is one application I recently discovered that you may find very handy while outdoors, whether you are a photographer or you simply enjoy running or hiking and it’s called BlackStar. What it does is that it turns your Blackberry into [...]
We all have online products and services we grow to like, and for me one of these services, as I have written in the past (here and here), is Zenfolio. I like that they are constantly improving and upgrading their services, and they have recently made additional changes to their services that I thought are [...]
Couple of days ago I saw someone on Twitter mention the newly launched MpixPro, a new printing lab with focus on pro photographers. I thought, what the heck, let’s check it out. I went on their web-site, read all I could about it and applied for the account. I got my acceptance response in less [...]
I do not upload any photos to Facebook, with the exception of an occasional profile shot and here is why. I always found extremely irritating and disappointing how their server and their resizing algorithm handles photos. Over 30 million photos get uploaded to Facebook daily, and yet not a lot of people notice the substantial [...]
When I first published a post about tax applications of being a part-time photographer, the question I was asked more than any other was, what about sales tax? So this post will address that question for photographers residing in California. The problem is, sales tax rules vary from state to state, and in fact, a [...]
Since I am an accountant by education and by trade, I thought with tax season on everyone’s mind, I’ll share a few tips or answers to the frequently asked questions from other photographers that I get on a regular basis in my role as a photographer who’s also an accountant. If you’re a full time [...]