Selling and Shopping

Many years ago, I tried to market pictures. I had very little luck until I started using my pictures to illustrate my writing. I started this year thinking more seriously about writing. As usual, my mind has wandered. It wants me to try selling "fine art prints." A friend who has a website design and development business asked for some graphic support. He's working on a site for The Big Bend National Park and asked for pictures. He has offered to help design and develop a website for marketing my pictures. He will link the Big Bend credit line to my website. Here we go again. :-)

I am taking it seriously enough to start shopping for a printer. It's hard to justify the expense ... unless!!!! Jane wants to know if I am serious. I'm not sure. Perhaps outsourcing the printing and mounting of a few images for display will shed some light on the possibilities. I've even chosen a theme ... the West.

I have some stuff from our trip last fall that looks pretty good. I'd also like to fool around a bit more with creating "eye catching" images using the HDR process. The colors in this image of a sunset near Canyon de Chelly National Monument were intensified with the HDR process.

I want to try printing a few similar images on a larger format canvas. A printer that I have in mind will print panoramas up to 44 inches wide. It is not terribly expensive but not necessary for normal everyday use. I was thinking that five images may be enough for a library display. The problem is that paying for matted and framed prints can cost nearly as much as buying a printer. Maybe I should stick to developing my memoirs? :-)

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