<p>You can worry all you want about photos being stolen via Flickr, but maybe someone will like your photo enough to buy it and put it on the cover of a platinum-selling rock album and boost you overnight from the fuzzy border of hobbyist/professional to a high-profile career as a portrait and fashion photographer.</p><p>At least that's how it worked for Rosie Hardy, a young English photographer who started to learn how to use a camera when she was 15 so that she could come up with a decent shot for her Myspace profile.</p><p>Lo and behold, she discovered she enjoyed the process, started getting more serious, began experimenting with equipment, lighting and poses and started sharing some striking environmental portraits on Flickr.</p><p>Photography remained a hobby for Hardy, however, until 2010. At the time, megaband Maroon 5 had finished recording its album, "Hands All Over," and needed an image for the cover.</p><p><a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/10/18/flickr-post-leads-maroon-5-album-cover-photography-career/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/maroon-5-discovered-amazing-photographer-rosie-hardy-2013-10">Maroon 5 Discovered Amazing Photographer Rosie Hardy</a> (WebProNews)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d9Gs8SyEOYSWIiMuEAG6SGyXATDnM&ned=us">2 additional articles.</a></p>