RE: People and Streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Just Back to Bangkok From the Trip

I've often considered it but never really had the time or motivation

Low payments even for the East (Eastern Europe, most Asia). For the West, you can say they pay nothing. I sell on Adobe, Alamy, Shutterstock, iStock, and smaller ones. Adobe sales grow (surprisingly), the average sale is like 0.4$. If a new image is beautiful, it can be discovered on Adobe and start bringing some money.

Alamy sells rarely but you can have 10-20-50$ for a sale. You can earn money with not only general-use photos but ones with narrow use - like, a picture of, for example, a museum in some no-name provincial city in Romania or Mongolia. You need many pix like that and better not just random bad shots and clones but good ones.

Shutterstock, if not rare big sales, pays very low, a usual subscription sale is 0.1$.

There is an annoying thing: you can just copy and paste - every stock has its own web interface so you have to lose time with all this.

I sometimes think about uploading most editorial images to Alamy, and potentially profitable non-editorial selected photos to Adobe.

Thailand visa

Most nations come to Thailand visa free for 30 days. After that, you can go abroad (Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc) to get a tourist (60+30-day) visa for 30$. 60+30 days means you can spend 60 days in Thailand and then pay 50$ to get an extra 30, in almost any city (no refusals). Then, you can get the second visa for 60+30 days. That's 190 days - 100% no problem.

There is no rule about how many days you can spend in Thailand. If someone says, there is a 180-day rule - don't believe it. I was in Thailand for around 240 days in 2023. No rule means an official that works with you makes a subjective decision, and Thais want more tourists nowadays...

Their main question is "are you a real traveler or you secretly work in Thailand?" So, when I leave Thailand, I try to spend a longer time outside. For example, in autumn I was in Vietnam for 1.5 months. In summer, 1.5 months in Laos.

Different Thai embassies and consulates are differently strict. Vientiane and Savannakhet ones are easy. You should read about each of them. Some of them can ask this or that. Some paranoid ones can ask you to show tickets away from Thailand, as people say.

If you have enough money for traveling, you shouldn't spend so much time in Thailand - so many nice cheap countries to go to in Asia.

Do you ever get hassled by border security or are you at risk of not being allowed entry?

Once before the pandemic - they were strict with me, sent me from the passport control to an immigration officer and she was asking "why, why, why" trying to get proof from me that I didn't work in Thailand. They stamped me 30 days - this was what I wanted (I was entering without visa - it was my second time with visa extemption rule which wasn't allowed at that time + many months in Thailand). But that stamp had a sign that I was not a good traveler anymore, a sort of.

Before the pandemic, there was a sentiment in Thailand, that there were too many foreigners and they stole jobs, etc. Now it is the opposite - the pandemic impressed everyone here.