>>2975391It's easy to become very attached to your work. Always keep improving yourself but most importantly shoot for yourself and not the appreciation of others. /p/ is only painfully harsh if you take every word to heart. Remember these are just people online and you can choose to take them seriously or not. When someone says "it's shit" you can choose to feel offended or you can just move on. If a lot of people have negative words about an image, it may be a good idea to consider their viewpoint. Most likely one of them will have said something constructive as well. Sometimes you have to stand back and weed out the weak images. Again, I must say that it's important to shoot for yourself. If you create something that everyone on /p/ hates but you know you're doing it for the sake of growing and learning and it brings you happiness then keep it up!
I still have some pano shots to go through, here's a recent one.
>>2975398It's people of all sorts, but the buying demographic really is 50 to 60 year old upper middle class folk. Occasionally I get surprising orders from 20 somethings so it's good to see the new generation will still buy artwork.
>>2975402I get asked that stuff all the time. Even when someone walks into my booth of landscapes they ask if I can do a family shoot for them. The answer is always no. I was going to meetings for the local Chamber of Commerce but no one understands what landscape photographer means there. One guy thought I meant that I photograph landscaping projects around people's suburban homes. I just tell people that I use a very slow to operate film camera with expensive sheets, and my equipment is geared towards landscapes so I can't help them.