Back in the mid-90s I was obsessed with using my old Canon 350D to capture images to sell as royalty-free stock photos on sites such as iStock. In those halcyon days, you could earn around $10 per image sale and I often earned around $800 per month, which was a welcome passive income that lasted years.
I had friends who made thousands of dollars per month from selling lifestyle images, so they could hire props and models for a shoot, confident in the knowledge that they’d quickly recoup their expenses.
