What do you shoot when nothing’s happening?

   What do you shoot when nothing’s happening?  When nobody’s protesting or rioting, when no politician’s campaigning or making an appearance, nobody’s having a formal wedding they want you to shoot, and no promising athlete is playing?
   My answer is everything and anything - as in the bewildering assortment of logos; yes, such photos do sell.  Companies later make news - if not at the time - when one buys out another; I sold a photo of the stylized front of a major area supermarket chain (below) when it later was bought out by a national chain.  Carmakers may later make news - for all the wrong reasons, such as their make being discontinued in the U.S. market.  Photos of spinoff products based on TV series people may sell - as one based on “Duck Dynasty” did for me when that show made news for its characters’ views on gays and lesbians.
   Ideally, you place such photos with an agency - but, if the agency you used goes out of business, you will have to find another or market the images yourself.


A photo of this major supermarket chain’s stylized decor sold when the chain sold