We have a question from Dave today and Dave writes, hey Ted, wanted to say thanks for the latest series of shows concerning photography degrees, not working for free and how to get experience.

You haven't yet addressed the burning question though. How do you get work? I currently work a

day job that pays the bills but I would rather be doing what I'm passionate about.

I know the pro market is competitive but it can't be impossible to break into. I've

shot a few events and some small

portrait sessions so I have some experience to play off of but how do photographers

take the next step into the professional market? Keep up the great work on the

show Dave. Dave, you have asked the mother of all questions.

This is the probably the most asked question in the world of anybody who has ever thought

about entering the photography market as a profession and it is tough as we all know and I want I want to be very real about

what we talk about today and some of it is not easy to hear but at the same time I

do want to be encouraging as well so hang with me a little bit as I try to go through this. I also want to give

a disclaimer up front. I make my living doing this show so I don't make my living right now as a

photographer in the traditional sense of clients and service-based relationships.

I have done freelance work before.

It's been a while.

I did that for about seven years.

And then I left, after doing seven years,

I started working at the Dallas Museum of Art,

and I was there full-time for the next seven years and I

was head of digital media which included doing both photography and video and I

had an in-house job as typically what we call that and I left that in July of last year to do this show full time and that's where I am today.

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