Thursday, December 02, 2004
I've got one more auction on eBay that ends tomorrow. After that is finished, I'm finished with ebay. I love the idea of selling through the internet and selling from home, but it's just not the right place to sell my photos.
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For the time being, all I'm going to do is shoot with the Holga. Last night I developed 4 rolls, tonight will be another 4 rolls. Tomorrow contact sheets and a couple of test prints. My backlog of film is down to about 30 - 40 rolls - I think I'll throw a party when I'm caught up--woohoo, let's all go to Chucky Cheese's!
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I'm going to ask for B&H Photo gift certificates for Xmas (assuming someone asks).
"The B&H Gift Card is a unique way to let that someone special locate exactly what they have been searching for. It allows the recipient to purchase any item available at B&H Photo Video, whether they shop over the web, on the phone or in our superstore!"
Last year I did get gift certificates from the local photo store, which actually has a decent darkroom department.
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So since I've given up my pipedream of making a living selling photos on ebay, I guess I'm left with: website--slim pickins; galleries--maybe...fat chance...in another life...worth a try...who knows...; art festivals--summer fun! If I want to make it fulltime, I'll have to home school my son, but I'm too worried about screwing him up, so that's probably out.
Oh who knows, I'm not sweating it right now. I'm just happy I'm content with shooting with the Holga. So I worked through my scanning and inkjet printing freakout of last winter/spring--I'm perfectly happy with traditional darkroom printing. And now I've worked out my camera situation. Next I'll have to work out how to sell these things. Besides doing the art festivals again, I have been thinking about doing handmade books or self publishing a book. I do think photos are great on the wall, but for the average person, it's hard to buy multiple photos because of $$$ and space. A book on the other hand has a whole series of images and maybe cheaper than a single print.
* * * * *
For the time being, all I'm going to do is shoot with the Holga. Last night I developed 4 rolls, tonight will be another 4 rolls. Tomorrow contact sheets and a couple of test prints. My backlog of film is down to about 30 - 40 rolls - I think I'll throw a party when I'm caught up--woohoo, let's all go to Chucky Cheese's!
* * * * *
I'm going to ask for B&H Photo gift certificates for Xmas (assuming someone asks).
"The B&H Gift Card is a unique way to let that someone special locate exactly what they have been searching for. It allows the recipient to purchase any item available at B&H Photo Video, whether they shop over the web, on the phone or in our superstore!"
Last year I did get gift certificates from the local photo store, which actually has a decent darkroom department.
* * * * *
So since I've given up my pipedream of making a living selling photos on ebay, I guess I'm left with: website--slim pickins; galleries--maybe...fat chance...in another life...worth a try...who knows...; art festivals--summer fun! If I want to make it fulltime, I'll have to home school my son, but I'm too worried about screwing him up, so that's probably out.
Oh who knows, I'm not sweating it right now. I'm just happy I'm content with shooting with the Holga. So I worked through my scanning and inkjet printing freakout of last winter/spring--I'm perfectly happy with traditional darkroom printing. And now I've worked out my camera situation. Next I'll have to work out how to sell these things. Besides doing the art festivals again, I have been thinking about doing handmade books or self publishing a book. I do think photos are great on the wall, but for the average person, it's hard to buy multiple photos because of $$$ and space. A book on the other hand has a whole series of images and maybe cheaper than a single print.
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