Stock photography can be a part time activity for some people. Even highly trained and successful professionals in other fields are engaged in shooting  stock.

Quentin Bargate is a photographer undertaking commercial, landscape, botanical, portrait, food and general photography from his studios based in North Essex, England.
Quentin is a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS) and a consultant and principal photographer to Barleigh Stock, a new online stock photo library.
Quentin is also a Principal of Quentin Bargate & Co and a trained shipping lawyer, holding a Master’s degree in Marine law and Policy, and having worked in shipping law since 1983.

Quentin was interviewed by Theodoros Papageorgiou with questions regarding his involvement, perspective and experiences with the stock photography field.

Alfonso's torrential, direct and sometimes provocative speech along with his extensive stock industry experience and insight make this interview a very useful and easy read. Alfonso was interviewed by Theodoros Papageorgiou with questions aimed to shed some light on areas that puzzle many full time and part time stock photographers.

Theodoros Papageorgiou: Tell us a little of how and when did you became involved in stock photography.

Alfonso Gutierrez: I started in photography from the chemistry side of it: I was 13 years old when I was developing images that I took with an Agfa 6x9 camera my father had. The chemistry aspect of the processing was what caught my eye. Consequently, I was taking photographs to be able to process and experiment with the results. While I was studying to get my chemistry degree I was not abandoning my interest and I was consistently experimenting with the color photography chemistry of that time with such old emulsions as Anscochrome and later with Ektachrome E-1; those early times were actually interesting and lots of fun. It was not until the early 60's that the creative part of photography captured my attention; since then I'm still here shooting and editing.