Successful failure

 The ground hog that cost me $500 . There at two  ground hogs here but the top one , yes the shady one ! Cost me $500 .Well not exactly . Here is the story . A few years back when I  was getting into photography  I was looking to sell my photos.  I called several news papers and asked them many questions . Long story short  I was told by one news paper  that if you made the cover you could get anywhere from $150-1500 average . It was all fee lance .  If you had half of a page photo it could  be around $500 . The smaller the photo got the less you got . Now you had to have a story with your photo of course .  One day while walking back to my  sailboat . I saw a  ground hog . He was really friendly  and was  giving me a shake down for food . I was in a near by park . I didn't  have any food  but I did get some shots of him and another smaller  more shy ground hog.  As I went on my way I could ...