As we presented one seminar after another and the question kept coming up, the real answer to this question dawned on me. I realized that I had been giving the diplomatic answer to why people have a hard time selling wildflower photos instead of the real answer. So during my last few seminars on the west coast, I gave my audience a choice of hearing the diplomatic answer or the real answer. Of course, everyone wanted to hear the real answer, but some wanted to hear the diplomatic answer for comparison so I would give the diplomatic answer first and then the real answer. Let's start with the diplomatic answer which is designed to please everyone.
Wildflowers are natural subjects for the camera because they are so beautiful.
Since they don't run away from photographers, everyone can stalk them successfully. The reason they are hard to sell is because everyone has thousands of wildflower photos in their files so the market is overflowing with great wildflower photos to pick from. Therefore, there is simply too much competition to permit much of a chance of selling many wildflower photos. Now let's look at the real answer. There are millions of wildflower photos around because everyone can walk up to them, point their camera and go click.