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Wildlife photography was fun for a while. If you avoid baiting the animals, it sortof becomes a game, figuring out where they live and how to get close without scaring them off. Making any significant money off it seems unlikely though.

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I always wonder why more people don't use wildlife photography as a more challenging alternative to hunting.

At least where I’m from, the vast majority of hunters do it for consuming the animal. Trophy hunters here are pretty rare as that’s more of an (very) expensive luxury rather than sustenance. There is definitely overlap in base stalking skills and many people do both, but they are very different activities.

If you're doing something for fun, cheating just ruins the experience. If you're doing something for the result, or for a trophy, cheating becomes more appealing.

I really hate cooking.

Cooking can be fun. Take a simple recipe and refine it until you are an artisan. I made little pizzas at work. It was fun but I upped my game significantly. I only needed a toaster oven, a rolling pin, store bought dough. But used high quality ingredients.

The fun for me was in the refinement to perfection.

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