If you have a camera and a flair for taking unusual photographs, you may have the makings of a very good business creating photographs for firms making greetings cards, postcards and calendars.
The market for quality photographs is huge, as any look on the newsagents shelves will prove.
Take a look in any or all of hundreds of publications issued weekly or monthly, all of which require two or three or sometimes hundreds of quality photographs from freelance photographers for every issue.
Then consider the many firms worldwide needing ongoing quality photographs for postcards and calendars and you'll realize what a huge money-making opportunity awaits the skilled photographer.
And you can be one of them, working for manufacturers themselves or though middleman companies such as photographic libraries, or by starting your own company producing postcards and calendars, greetings cards and other items requiring photographic images.
Once you start your business, you keep all the profits to yourself, and your work is never refused! How good is that? Virtually any skilled photographer can run this business, on their own account or through agents, as long as their photographs are of tip top quality.
Working by yourself you can sell your goods on eBay and Amazon, or other online or offline marketplaces.
For offline marketing consider selling through gift shops, newsagents, book shops, souvenir shops, art galleries, hotels and tourist information offices, and many more besides.
With just a little practice and a few weeks creating a marketing plan and checking out what type of photographs are required by your target manufacturers, you could very quickly be up and running and making money as a photographer.