Maybe your landscape images take a while to sell. Or rarely sell. Or nobody seems interested in looking at them, and even worse, no one is downloading them either. Yes you might happen to have taken photographs that don't carry a 'high need factor' for online buyers. Or maybe you just don't know how to sell your photography effectively online, so you haven't really pushed the potential of this as far as you could.

Let's look into this further. For every photographer that has a successful sale, there's a good number of photographers who miss out on the potential of that sale. In many ways, we'll never know, because photo buyers don't really stop to tell us why they choose one image over another. They continue on their way towards fulfilling their own, often time-urgent, project. Indeed we can't expect them to explain their reasons why. But there is something we can learn from this.

And that is, we can look at what images do sell. We can look at the successful landscape photography for sale and see how it has been crafted and shot. What about it is different to the rest? What makes it unique or special? How did the photographer use the light, and where was the image taken, and at what time of day. What is it about this image that compels and interests you? Answer these questions and you're on the right track.

And that's a very good start. Because the fact of the matter is that selling photographs is very motivational. And it's important... after all, you've most likely spent serious time in creating these landscapes. This doesn't always mean though that you walked through rain storms, up and down mountains and got up really early on frosty mornings, but certainly you invested your time to create something that you consider valuable.

You also may be wondering, I've created some good landscape photography for sale, and I think it's compelling work, and it should be selling, because it's good. Lots of factors come into play here... Where are you selling your images? On your own website or at a stock photo agencies site? Does your own website get substantial traffic (visitors who are interested in what you do?) Are your images key-worded accurately?

Have you got enough images online that are available? Are they of common landscapes or unusual environments? Have you searched to see what other images exist that are similar to yours? Are you putting 'essence of you' into the picture? And what I mean is that... your perspective is completely unique and there's no one else like you, so use that unique individuality to make your photography stand out, and enrich the viewer.

Make sure, when you're out there photographing, that you put you into the picture. :-)

And this goes for all themes of photography. Considering too, that maybe it's not just landscape photography you want to sell. Maybe you've got a whole range of photography subjects you want to market and sell online. More choice could very well make things easier when it comes to your selling potential. Generally speaking, effective methods and techniques for selling photos online will work well for all types of photography.

For me, I've seen people who enjoy incredible success selling photos online... (just research the bigger stock agencies.) For many of us though, even for those with great photography in their portfolio, selling our images online successfully takes lots of learning and persistence. It takes a never give up attitude, and an abundance of 'getting motivated by seeing other photographers make big online photo sales...' and more.

Of course one day that other photographer will be you. (With regular, passive 'asset building' photo sales.) And no matter what theme of photography you specialize in, even if it's just perfecting your best landscape photography for sale, portraits or nature photography, achieving real success will come from the decisions you make. You'll create your own success, and photo sales, if that's what you really want to do.

And when you do, make sure and dream big.