The snowy days of winter, what does it mean for you? To most folks winter means a time of slippery sidewalks, nasty roads, flu season, and something that can be much worse for others, the Winter Blues. The winter blues does not generally happen to someone who is busy all day with things to do in the winter, because they keep active and energetic, as night time approaches, they relax and go to sleep. Now, since you have enough extra time on your hands in the winter, that it causes you to get the winter blues, lets discover a great little hobby that can help fight against it.

Do you own a digital camera or a film camera? I bet you do, if you own a cell phone you have a digital camera right there. Now, when your home during the winter season why not put your digital camera to good use, with winter photography. I mean, you are already saying you have extra time on your hands in the winter months, because your reading an article about how to fight the winter blues.

There are tons of great winter things to take photos of, such as: Snowy mountains, fields, valleys and other such scenery, snow covered trees, snow covered and frozen stream edges, and more. You can make money with your photos by having the unique ones blown up and framed, then take them to area restaurants and ask if they can be hung on the walls there, make sure you place a little business card with your contact info on the card and a price, so any prospective customer can contact you in regards to purchasing them, or you can just place a price on the picture, and have the restaurant or place of business accept the fees for you, and of course they would get a small commission for displaying the picture for you.

Besides restaurants, one of the other places that always loves having local painters and photographers display their items at is Hospitals. I used to work at a Hospital, and at any given time there would be probably 50 different paintings and pictures on display through out the halls, and all of them were for sale. So this winter season grab your camera and have fun taking photos while you fight the winter blues.

There is a website that describes numerous activities and other methods to help eliminate the Winter Blues, this website is called: Winter Activities - and it may be found at this url: http://www.winter-activities.com


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