I am NOT trying to be mean here. I've taken numerous advanced college photography classes, earned awards/ribbons/cash for my photos in contests and have researched into making photography my evental full time career. I've been 'practicing' for over 15 years. Not bragging just trying to let you know where I'm coming from here.

Anyways, you're NOT going to want to hear this but...

If you start selling your photography you're going to need to apply for a license to charge sales tax (depending on your states regulations). You'll then need to file income tax for your sales and report all earnings and pay taxes on that. Even if you're only doing it as a hobby/semi-professional you still have to charge sales tax and report it on your income tax. If you don't, that is tax evasion and has nasty penaties. All it takes is one person who writes off their purchase to you on their taxes for it to get traced back to you or one person with a gripe to report you as an illegal business. You would also need to keep very good records of sales income for the tax purposes.


http://www.photoattorney.com/2006_06...y_archive.html (very good but short article on taxes for photography sales)

http://www.ebsqart.com/artMagazine/za_238.htm (has some good tax advice including hobby status)

http://www.naturescapes.net/022006/hf0206.htm (more in depth article similar to the first link)

http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/30...obby-or-money/ (interesting article from a professional blogger, also includes and applies to photography as a business)


I'm not trying to discourage you from trying to make your hobby into a semi professional outing, I'm just trying to save you alot of heartache and trouble with the tax man over it.

If you're not wanting to make photography a career then my suggestion is take on an extra few hours at a fast food joint or somewhere you can make a few bucks for extra income.

It's a bit hard to see your framed pix because of the glare and reflections from the dead on camera flash. From what I can see, your pictures are nice 'snapshots'. I'm sure you love them or you wouldn't have went through the trouble of printing and framing them in such a manner. Keep it as a wall hanging in your home and a nice conversation piece for your family and friends to enjoy.

Here is a couple Flickr sites that have some excellent photos of cityscapes and a few of the Columbus area to give you some ideas on what's possible.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionp...7594190097061/

http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&q=cityscape&m=tags



If you really do want to do photography as a career (even part time) I'd highly recommend taking some photography classes and a few business classes. In the meantime join some photo groups (mpex and flickr groups come to mind) and ask for comments and critique for your pix to help you improve them. Enter some local photo contests (beware of those online or magazine contests they are usually just giving you peanuts for commercial use of your pix without further compensation which is big bucks in the pro business).

That's my advice for you since you asked openly for it. I've already let you know where I'm coming from in giving it, so feel free to take it or not at your leisure.

Either way I wish you the best with your internship and your schooling.