Yet what other stories do you shoot when the election’s over, no “money sport” is playing, and when nobody’s doing big protests?
   You can shoot photos for the doctor’s offices and other business places.  Whether they will be zoomed-in-tight photos of wild animals or birds - or macros of flowers in bloom - they can sell to the many doctors who decorate their offices with all kinds of things.
   A look on Facebook finds many shooters seeming to specialize in wildlife photos or floral macros.  The wildlife photos obviously are shot with telephoto lenses or telephoto zooms; the floral macros are shot with more-general zooms.
   Such photos offer the prospect of paid work when the financially troubled newspaper industry now has largely quit giving on-assignment work - even on big stories.

Azaleas, Burlington, N.C.  Shot with Canon 24-70 f/2.8 “L” USM