Ultimate goal with photography...

Pretty much everyone on this forum has gotten into photography for one reason or another.....and I've seen quite a few posts centered around the topic of why or how people have gotten into photography.
I wanted to start a slightly different (and hopefully fun) discussion about where you would like to end up. Would you like to continue doing exactly what your doing? Would you like to have a thriving portrait studio? Would you like to be a famous artist who's works sell for six figures on a regular basis? If you could achieve anything and everything you so desire with your photography, what would it be?

to make it big on POTN... one day...

My goal is to be a recognized and regularly contributing member (read: published and/or have my work hanging on walls) of the aviation photography community.

I feel that I've made pretty good progress in the two full years I've been chasing "the dream" but I know it won't happen overnight. It's a segment inside a niche surrounded by obscurity but it's a subject I love and I think my photography reflects this fact.

Having placed two images in a world-wide contest late last year (on my first try), I have reason to believe I will eventually prevail!

Just doing photography as part of my job and but it requires me to be away from my family. Now I just got to figure out how to do it full time domestically and still get paid well and not Wedding photography. My focus is government, Military etc.

To have fun.

i'd like to become a better photographer.

Eventually I would like to have my own gallery of landscape photos. This will absolutely happen someday, no doubt about it.

I have already been exhibiting work in juried shows for several years now and it's a lot of fun.

I still have wedding/portrait work but that is just what I make money with. Eventually making money through landscapes or workshops would be nice.

I just really enjoy the process, the challenge, and the feeling you get when you know you have nailed it. Goal, to be well respected would be nice.

To get hired and paid reasonably for some bigger cycling races.... That's my market as far as I know. I think wedding and portrait photography isn't my thing. Or I could stop shooting all together for money because my life priority has changed....

For my personal work it is to communicate ideas in a way that I can only do visually. To have something to say visually.

My professional work is always about getting the collaboration between art/creative director and myself into the final piece. To try and keep moving the others involved to more of the way I see the world/project thus more and more getting hired for that vision rather than having to adapt.

Primary: To create something that makes other people happy.

Secondary: To do something that continues to challenge me in both a technical and a creative manner.

Tertiary: To have a profession that I enjoy, that I don't dread every day. To be able to live comfortably and pay my bills without having to sit in a cubicle.

My goal and dream would be to simply have a studio space and gallery to call my own, and to be a recognized (not necessarily famous) photographer in my community.

It's hard to actively work towards that goal when I already have a full time job as an aircraft mechanic. I need to make some changes with my life soon and start kicking myself in the ass more to shoot more often on my time off. Cool thread by the way!

Well I've applied to my local college to get my A.A.S. degree in photographic imaging.
I would love to become a "noted" fashion photographer.

Cool thread

I think I am already there. I like taking artistic pictures that look good to me. I print & frame ones I really like and every couple of years I have a show and sell some. Ones I don't sell get hung on our walls and are recycled for the next show.

I guess ultimately it would be nice to make my main living selling prints but I wonder if I had to be a photographer for a main source of income if it would lose something, (like its appeal). That same thing happened to me as a blacksmith. I love doing ornamental ironwork but doing it 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week and it loses something. Needless to say, I am not a blacksmith anymore....

I wanna be huge on Facebook! Don't have a facebook page yet though, still working out that angle.