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15 years ago
I've been saying for a while now that I'd love to see my pictures put to good use and if anyone in need could sell some of my work I'd be glad to give them the full-sized files for printing. Now that we've got the 
adlmdailyspotlight this becomes a bit more of a reality. So, where to start and how to explain. First let's start with me and my photography.
This very long story will have to be made very short of course. To sum up, after a very severe and almost fatal illness (I'm openly HIV pos) I retreated up north to take over the M&P's country place, moved into the barn and started renovations there. During this time I turned myself into a pretty damn good photographer and have the sales and accolades to prove it. I may not have had any experience with a camera but I do have a quarter of a century of wallowing in the arts under my belt. Yes kiddies, my leathers are probably older than you. *lol*
The photography. First off, there's a lot more than what's on this site of course. I'm sensitive to the fact that this is primarily a furry/anthro site and so I do not flood it, I only post best brief examples of sets and the like. I do have a site but since almost all of my sales have been local I haven't kept it updated until now. Currently waiting for me bud to post these pictures and many more (Hands up, who's not behind in post-production! Figured so.) There is an up-side to being on the disabled list and buried in the boonies... I've got all of my time to devote to photography and a great place to be for great pictures.
Pictures! Sellers! My last big sale was this picture which sold for $150, this one sold this spring for $150 and two years ago a nice large framed print of this pic went for a very nice $350. It also took third place in photography contest, I would have had first and second if they hadn't mixed categories with the digital! Funny thing that, my childish pique had me doing this piece in five minutes to prove how easy shit like that is... and it's a constant seller! Really, which reminds me I have to get another good print of it in my gallery space. Others I expect to sell for that? Well this one for starters is one of my best "sofa" pictures along with this one (almost sold this summer for $225!) You know what a "sofa" picture is... "Ooooh! That would look so nice above the sofa." *lol* Dig... art is furniture, live with it! I'll wrap up this mini-tour with these latest from this fall, definitely sellers. (1234)
So what to do with these! Well, do what I do... get some good cheap frames from your local thrift-stores, print pictures, frame em, and get em hung up in any place you can. Postcard sets? Not a problem. Anything else you can think of? Not a problem! What is a problem for me is my isolation and inability to get out and about. I really am rather disabled right now and let's face it, northern Manitoba isn't exactly the Venice Beach boardwalk! *lol* What do I want? Nothing but some acknowledgment, credit where credit is due like any artist would want. Of course if someone really does make some big sales I'm certainly a candidate for the adlmdailyspotlight myself! After all, I'm living on $600 a month disability in a partially renovated barn with no running water or sanitation.
To sum up, this is good proven work, I'm just very low on energy, resources, and isolated as hell. There are a lot of people here with great contacts in the art world though and I'm sure there are people with the knowledge and contacts. This is for a good cause, all good causes, and there are plenty of people here who could really use some help. I myself am doing quite well actually. I'm lucky to live in a country with a good social safety-net that has saved my life and allowed me to live far better than I would in most places in the world. I am deeply grateful for that and it's the reason I work so hard at my photography, to repay the society that I believe in and am indebted to. So that's about it, whatcha think?
adlmdailyspotlight this becomes a bit more of a reality. So, where to start and how to explain. First let's start with me and my photography.This very long story will have to be made very short of course. To sum up, after a very severe and almost fatal illness (I'm openly HIV pos) I retreated up north to take over the M&P's country place, moved into the barn and started renovations there. During this time I turned myself into a pretty damn good photographer and have the sales and accolades to prove it. I may not have had any experience with a camera but I do have a quarter of a century of wallowing in the arts under my belt. Yes kiddies, my leathers are probably older than you. *lol*
The photography. First off, there's a lot more than what's on this site of course. I'm sensitive to the fact that this is primarily a furry/anthro site and so I do not flood it, I only post best brief examples of sets and the like. I do have a site but since almost all of my sales have been local I haven't kept it updated until now. Currently waiting for me bud to post these pictures and many more (Hands up, who's not behind in post-production! Figured so.) There is an up-side to being on the disabled list and buried in the boonies... I've got all of my time to devote to photography and a great place to be for great pictures.
Pictures! Sellers! My last big sale was this picture which sold for $150, this one sold this spring for $150 and two years ago a nice large framed print of this pic went for a very nice $350. It also took third place in photography contest, I would have had first and second if they hadn't mixed categories with the digital! Funny thing that, my childish pique had me doing this piece in five minutes to prove how easy shit like that is... and it's a constant seller! Really, which reminds me I have to get another good print of it in my gallery space. Others I expect to sell for that? Well this one for starters is one of my best "sofa" pictures along with this one (almost sold this summer for $225!) You know what a "sofa" picture is... "Ooooh! That would look so nice above the sofa." *lol* Dig... art is furniture, live with it! I'll wrap up this mini-tour with these latest from this fall, definitely sellers. (1234)
So what to do with these! Well, do what I do... get some good cheap frames from your local thrift-stores, print pictures, frame em, and get em hung up in any place you can. Postcard sets? Not a problem. Anything else you can think of? Not a problem! What is a problem for me is my isolation and inability to get out and about. I really am rather disabled right now and let's face it, northern Manitoba isn't exactly the Venice Beach boardwalk! *lol* What do I want? Nothing but some acknowledgment, credit where credit is due like any artist would want. Of course if someone really does make some big sales I'm certainly a candidate for the
adlmdailyspotlight myself! After all, I'm living on $600 a month disability in a partially renovated barn with no running water or sanitation.To sum up, this is good proven work, I'm just very low on energy, resources, and isolated as hell. There are a lot of people here with great contacts in the art world though and I'm sure there are people with the knowledge and contacts. This is for a good cause, all good causes, and there are plenty of people here who could really use some help. I myself am doing quite well actually. I'm lucky to live in a country with a good social safety-net that has saved my life and allowed me to live far better than I would in most places in the world. I am deeply grateful for that and it's the reason I work so hard at my photography, to repay the society that I believe in and am indebted to. So that's about it, whatcha think?
Photography is one thing. Photography that can reach out and grab you by the /soul/ is something entirely different! You have more than a few pics in the latter category, IMHO.
Anyway, glad to hear you're hanging in there and doing okay.
My sincerest wishes to you and yours, for the coming year!
Question... Is there ever a point to giving up? Not really eh? *lol*
I was getting angry at someone and told them i was going to have to hollow them out and use thier skin for a lampshade and make the rest into jerky. Someone else said i could always sacrifice him to some dark god. and i replied that Sacrifices have to have worth...
"If you are doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch, Get It In WRITING! His word ain't worth shit, not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal." *lol*
As for prints, art, etc etc, how are you for contacts? Must have some, you swim in it after all. I'm just about to "go pro" with my Photobucket account which will provide the storage space I need, then I can upload full-sized pictures for you (and others) to download and print. Seriously, look at this stuff, you know that if you put it on a table where there are people and things being sold, they'll move! I sold a large print of this the same day I had it run off! Went to get an x-ray of my hips, it wasn't busy so I chatted with the gals there, pulled them out to show, and one of them demanded to know what I'd take for "that one" right then and there. *sigh* It occurs to me... maybe I just need some reassurance that people still like and value art.
As for taking up the task of making prints of your stuff and shopping them around, I have to let you know, I'm not as "swimming in it" as you think. I don't go out much to the "art-world", really. I'm almost as isolated as you are in your Interlake Homestead. >^____^< Most of my activity in that way is online: FA, Etsy and fan sites like the TSU. I'd suggest getting an Etsy page, though- they certainly accept photographers, and Facebook allows an artist/business to create fan-pages (that one you have to pay for, though) as a way of advertising your stuff. It's not a high cost (I know that might not mean much to you- it's still too expensive, possibly- I remember being on Disability myself), but I'm still digging around in it.
But Etsy.com is definitely a cheap site and it only costs twenty cents per item to list something in your "shop"- even I could afford that. I've seen some lovely things on there, photography-wise. Promotion is the big thing there: use all the tools they offer to promote your stuff, especially the "featured artist" thingy. I'm going to be using that when I get all the stuff I have left over from FC photographed and posted on-line.
Using Photobucket is a good idea, too- you can get a lot of eyes checking that out, but you'll need other, multiple venues in order to REALLY get them looking you over. If I can afford it, I'm definitely getting a Facebook fan-page made up for my Alien Eyes Creations business. I already have a Domain name (I pay $30 a year for it, get two email addresses, a certain amount of bandwidth dedicated to my domain and a pretty fat bit of storage- I have to build the web-site myself, though, which is why it's not up, yet. *chuckle*). You might want to look into that, if you haven't already.
I'm just getting started with the whole online-business thing, and if my experience at FC is any indicator, then I might be able to actually do this for a living. It won't be a posh living by any means, but I'll possibly be able to pay my bills and still eat. I'm looking into the possibility of doing Ren-faires: there's a local one that might not be too strict with the period costuming and wares thing, and your pretty pix may well get some eyeballs there. I'm not promising anything, as I'm not the best at getting my own shit together in anything resembling an organized fashion! It's a slow, hard slog for me, where it seems to be a breeze for others- I blame the ADHD as a possible reason. Heh.
I'll let you know what I can pull out of my ass, alright?
Strange, links checked out and worked for me! Changed em to alternates anyways.