Well, for me, success is at the bare minimum, earning enough revenue to provide for my two children, put a roof over their heads, and not worry about the next meal comfortably. If you can throw in a vacation or two a year travelling to another country, can include activities outside of school like music lessons, and skiing, that is where I like to be. So you are probably thinking.. wait.. don't you mean in terms of your photography goals? Oddly enough, that is not something I've ever set in my mind as a goal. Things happen, and you can get some nice surprises. From 2012-2019, I sold over 15,000 prints (paper, canvas, metal) of various sizes starting at 36"x9" up to a 12-foot wide canvas through 25 or so galleries. I was invited to a photography festival in UAE, where I had my own showroom to display my work - everything was paid for and I was paid to come on top of that. I've had clients (collectors) fly me to Egypt to take photos for him. Also during this time, I ran workshops which included locations like the Canadian Rockies, Iceland, New Zealand and Patagonia in South America. I've been a judge for the EPSON Pano awards several times, and before that made 4th place for the open competition. < When COVID hit... everything completely stopped... had to go find a full-time job until it was over hahaha, I worked in the Digital Marketing Agency world and oddly enough became an aerial surveyor sensor operator (a fancy way of saying the guy who took pictures of the ground).. mind you, it was a 2 million dollar camera. Now most of my revenue comes from selling my images to be printed in super large format, in a couple of museums, corporate offices, banks, and even in the Arizona House Of Representatives main chamber. Earlier this year I had my first 6 figure contract, to go to the Kingdom of Brunei to take a 15-gigapixel image that included over 10,000 people including a wedding ceremony procession of a Prince and Princess (of Brunei), and a few other princes and princesses in the scene. Of course, the sultan of Brunei and the Prime minister of Singapore happened to be in the shot too (lol).

@Johnny Tang : I would certainly be happy with what I have done so far... but it seems now it just comes to me, and I don't have to chase. For example, just today I got an email from a local health clinic to which I sold an 8-food-wide aluminum print before covid. They have since expanded and now want about 30 prints for all their locations. But you also have to remember, if anyone wanted a super high-resolution panoramic image in Vancouver... I'm the ONLY one who can do it. I really don't have any competition, and the demand for ultra-high res work is increasing. It was the reason I got invited to Brunei... I was the closest one they could find that could do what they wanted. Yes, there are others I know of, but they are not as easy to find or only do single row panos. I do multi row using a long lens so the resolution can easily jump to 10 gigapixels

@Johnny Tang : yeah, and I completely understand that. It only me really... the workflow that I use to get my images... I don't think would be possible using film.

@Johnny Tang I've been a full-time tog for more than a decade, and specialize in gigapixel images. The thought of trying to "stitch" a multi-row pano using film and focus stacking for each frame... ...yeah.. I stick with digital :)

Yes! my first drone was the DJI Phantom 1, wow, almost 10 years ago! I had a few that simply flew away randomly, lol, just like you @Johnny Tang . They have come along way though. I have my full advanced drone license (in Canada). I don't use it for any professional work though, because if I wanted to do that, the drone I would need would be 20K + 🤣

My favourite is the one that gets the results I need. I recently moved to the Fuji GFX 100mp system and it is a nice step up from Canon. At the end of the day, it reduces a lot of the work. As for film, the only time I used that was the point-and-shoot ones in the 90's. Otherwise, my photography career started in 2010 with a Canon 70D

Hello everyone! My passion is panoramic landscape photography. I'm checking out the Skool platform for a friend of mine's business, and of course, I have someone who talks my language. This was taken in a remote part of Canada in the Rockies... and got great luck when the sun poke through the clouds along the horizon and lit things up for us... which only lasted about 45 seconds.. so we had to shoot fast! I've been using Canon for years and this year switched up to the Fuji GFX system.

@Johnny Tang oh wow, too many! lol. let's see... here are a few: https://www.instagram.com/reuben/ (drone/landscape) https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/ (Universe) https://www.instagram.com/marcadamus/ (landscape) https://www.instagram.com/danielkordan/ (landscape) https://www.instagram.com/paulnicklen/ (landscape/wildlife/)