| Whether you're a native-English-speaking ex-pat or | | | | your new digs, get documentary, close-ups and "art" |
| not, there are still many more ways in which you can | | | | photos of it all too, from great to small - and then SELL |
| pick up some good, steady wads of cash while living in | | | | them! Say, do you know what the Colombia-Ecuador |
| or extensively visiting a foreign country. This can be | | | | dish "Yaguarlocro" looks and tastes like? See what I |
| especially true if the local language of the country is a | | | | mean? |
| foreign one. Here are some additional money-making | | | | More About Schools and Institutes |
| suggestions you might want to consider for | | | | Let's get back to schools and institutes again. Whether |
| establishing or boosting your overseas or travel-related | | | | they have native English speaking teachers or not, |
| income. | | | | there's one thing they don't have - and that's enough |
| Picture Perfect | | | | authentic English language materials to work with. How |
| Not only will English language rags and websites | | | | does this benefit you? Plenty! You can write or |
| worldwide crave your local stories and cultural news, | | | | prepare materials for the teachers and staff to use in |
| but they'll pay good coin of the republic for pictures of | | | | classes. Create a menu from one or more of your |
| it all too. Don't think that just because you're not an | | | | favorite restaurants back home. Write it up use |
| Ansel Adams or Margaret Bourke-White doesn't mean | | | | photos, drawings and images to dress it up a tad, and |
| that you can't hawk images online and off. If you have | | | | be sure to write descriptions of each dish, beverage |
| even rudimentary photographic skills they can pay off | | | | and dessert; then print or publish it as an authentic |
| quite handsomely. Photos of what, you ask? | | | | menu (which, by the way, it is). |
| Everything and almost anything will be subject matter | | | | In addition, you can create simple games and puzzles |
| for you. Like we said, the clothes and fashions, the | | | | that foreign language teachers will fight over. Word |
| food, occupations that are new and unusual to you will | | | | search puzzles, crosswords, coloring books, illustrated |
| likely be of interest to many others - who'll have cash | | | | poems and nursery rhymes, riddles and |
| in hand to pay for them. For example, take a look at | | | | tongue-twisters can all be written up, illustrated with |
| one stock photo website which accepts photos for | | | | your photos or graphics, then bound into a published or |
| sale worldwide at: | | | | photo-copiable book you can sell in lots to |
| It's almost a standing joke on me now, I hardly eat | | | | kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and |
| anything without taking a few photos of the food first. | | | | English language institutes at a tidy profit. These types |
| And not just my plate either. My dining companions | | | | of materials are cheap, quick and easy to produce. |
| usually don't squawk too much about me taking a | | | | You'll almost never run out of ideas, topics or themes |
| quick shot or two of their food either before they dive | | | | to keep you cranking out an almost endless supply of |
| into it. | | | | highly sought-after materials. Walk into a large |
| By the way, get photos of people eating their food too. | | | | educational institution with a selection of your |
| Other good photo-selling topics are recreation, festivals | | | | custom-prepared materials and you'll almost surely |
| and holidays, architecture and unique-looking people | | | | walk out with cash in hand and orders for more. |
| shots of kinds. I have an increasing store of vendor, | | | | There's More, Much More |
| student and every-day life photos from around my | | | | In this multi-part article, we haven't even touched the tip |
| corner of Latin America. Look at what kinds of photos | | | | of the iceberg yet when it comes to the cornucopia of |
| appear in local newspapers and magazines. Take your | | | | money-making possibilities you have before you while |
| own "versions" of these types of shots, and BINGO - | | | | living or traveling abroad. The only real limits to your |
| you've got a saleable portfolio that editors in other | | | | possibilities are those that your imagination and |
| lands may pay quite generously for. | | | | creativity may have. |
| Wherever you go, whatever you do in and around | | | | |