I'd love to do an exhibition of landscapes one day. My favorite stuff to shoot! Do you have a link to your portfolio? i'd love to see it! Are you in Asheville? Should be able to pitch quite a bit of your work to the massive tourist crowd.
Most of what I do now for paying jobs is not fun stuff. My most recent stuff was working with the Salvation Army to document their rehab centers and homeless shelters for marketing pieces (see attached pdf's). Stuff like that pays well but doesn't really allow you to be creative. The other aspect is minimal pay concert photography, minimal is very very minimal.
If you can work at the types of stuff you like and seriously develop them, you'll be better off for it.
My former boss when I did this for an agency once said, the secret to photography is charging alot for it. There is a perception of quality which comes with a high price tag. That and an attitude of professionalism will go a long way towards paying gigs i've found.
I don't, unfortunately, have an online gallery. Hopefully in the near future. I live in Monteagle, TN, which is high atop the cumberland plateau. It is a small, sleepy resort town. A destination for Nashville and Huntsville folks wanting a weekend getaway or for people to retire. A result is lots of people with disposable incomes. There are also a huge concentration of artists and artisans, so as a result, lots of galleries. I work as the head chef at a B&B here that also displays and sells art. We have auctions and are part of an upcoming artist gallery tour. Anyways, we had a charity auction event this summer and the charity was seeking donations from area artists. On a whim I submitted a piece. It actually got great feedback and had quite a few bidders and sold for much more than I thought it would. That prompted me to put stuff in there. I now have 5 or 6 pieces in there with quite a few ready to go to some other galleries who are looking for new submissions. I've sold some but have recieved solicitations for outside work from people seeing my stuff. Just finished up a shoot for a mother and her 15mo old son in an outside garden setting. I felt uncomfortable since this was outside of my comfort zone and bypassed the sitting fee for an agreement to purchase my pics at a set price. She loved them and ordered around 15 prints in various sizes. From this I've now recieved other solicitations. Time though is a factor so I'm not actively seeking jobs, they just seem to come and I'm picking and choosing really.
I basically just want to stay freelance, and market my own stuff or services to those I choose. This I don't see as a primary income for quite sometime and I am heading down another carreer path here shortly. But I enjoy photograpy, I enjoy the outdoors, and I enjoy concerts. If I can make some money at doing what I love, EXCELLENT! So, hopefully I can fully intergrate my passions into a viable carreer.
Good tips on charging a high fee. I tend to undercut myself in alot of things, especially this. I had another artist whose work is in one of the galleries suggest I raise my prices. He basically said I was selling my self short.