Most people don't deal well with rejection, especially not when it comes to their "art". But the truth is, its the rejection that can push us to become better at a quicker pace.

For the most part, I'd say I'm a self taught photographer. I had a back ground in filmmaking and sort of fell into becoming a photographer. People responded well to my work and so I stuck with it and started to invest in equipment.

Different photographic/social websites were of great use for confidence building and to see which kind of images people responded well too. But what I've lacked was someone to tell me if elements in my photographs were not so good or why.

So I had great confidence that I would be able to easily get into stock photography and start making ...