Local blogger Brian Leon is an avid photographer, but it's not his profession.  Still, his pics are appearing in published works including a new travel book about North Carolina.  What's interesting to me is that he's being found by people searching Flickr and then contacting him for permission to use his photos in their work.  Not all of it is paid, but some is and as Brian says there's a great sense of satisfaction in seeing his work published.

On another note Brian recently reformatted his blog to use the "magazine" format and it looks great.  I'm thinking I might need to do something similar.