I did a lot of photography in the past, but I usually post them to liketu.com. this is more like the Instagram of Hive, I think this is why I don't directly post to a photography community.
As for creating that community, I think we need it, however I'm not sure how many people will be willing to sell their pictures and if there will be people willing to buy them.
But then I think it'll create a different aspect of commerce.
My photography has improved, I'm still at the amateur level though, hoping to do better.
Come on you’re selling yourself short here. Your photos are great. I’ve seen them. I’ve always wondered what phone you use for your vlogs and now I understand why they have so much detail. You invested!
Regarding making more photography posts, I think the only I’ve seen since I’ve joined is the one you took your haircut. I think that was also my first interaction with you(I remember haha). For real though your pictures are great and you need to show us more of them. I know I’ll be looking forward to them. In the mean time, I’ll check out your liketu posts. I’m sure you have a great album there.
I think the number of people willing to sell their pictures wouldn’t be a problem. A lot of even amateur photographers here would’ve even been incentivized to improve their photographs and we would’ve seen more original photos in the entire Hive community after the launch of this community. The problem would’ve been buyers. Like you said, people will not want to buy if they can just save it to their gallery. But even with that, there are still some decent people here who would pay for a good photo or even art(great! We could even add art to it. Would give it more of professional feel) for ownership or even simply to show appreciation and encouragement. Something like a tipping or appreciation community for photographers and artists. I see a lot of people agree with this idea and I think if we pitched it, it is something the Hive community would want to have.