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I'm torn. I'm coming up on 50k pageviews, and I've been planning for ages to do a contest when I got there & give away a signed print of one of my images.
Unfortunately I am BROKE right now, and there's no way in the next 700 views I will be able to afford to get a good print made & then ship it.
So I don't know if I should push it back & wait until 75k views (which could take a WHILE, I don't get a ton of views to my page, usually just to my photos) or if I should go thru with it & give the winner an I.O.U.
Tough choice.
I hate being broke!
Unfortunately I am BROKE right now, and there's no way in the next 700 views I will be able to afford to get a good print made & then ship it.
So I don't know if I should push it back & wait until 75k views (which could take a WHILE, I don't get a ton of views to my page, usually just to my photos) or if I should go thru with it & give the winner an I.O.U.
Tough choice.
I hate being broke!
Instagram and locations in Scraps
I finally broke down & got an Instagram, SLEPhotography (https://www.deviantart.com/slephotography), when I got my new phone the other day. Figure I'll mostly use it for location scouting, my pets (or other cute animals), and some BTS shoots stuff. NO FOOD!
I will be tossing some of them up in my Scraps folder here, especially cool abandoned or decayed locations, with GPS coordinates in case anyone else wants to see them too.
Here's the first batch.
The Print Fairy came!
The Adorama print fairy came! I have a big pile of new prints! Sorry it's a crappy camphone shot of them.
They look GREAT and I'm especially delighted with the metallic prints of the plow photo (it looks like it's in 3-D!) and the outdoor nude of Darlyn, which looks like a copper engraving. I'm thrilled with the quality.
The lily prints are for my mom & the neighbor whose garden I shot it in, the rest are all going in frames for shows. :-D
If you want to see these better, check out this post where I show them all off. (And of course they're all in my DA gallery.)
2013, there will be exhibitions!
Incoming mass pile of images!
Fair warning if you're one of the small group of 10 or so who watch pretty much everything I do, I have an edit bug up my butt.
I just finished 4 new images - a scenic cemetery shot, a cool abandoned house, a nifty fetish portrait, and another Maned Wolf image. They're all going up (3 of the 4 as prints, and the Maned Wolf as stock, like the first) after I get some sleep (so early afternoon EST).
I mention this, tho, because I went thru my archives and put about 3 DOZEN images in my "get off your ass and do it" box, so there'll be several more tomorrow & it'll save you time to just wait until more hit the pile. :)
I'll take comments in t
Memo to critics
If your work consists of glossy and technically proficient, but utterly uninspired, commercial images that could be interchanged without notice in to any mid grade magazine out there, interspersed with a few "edgy" rip-offs of Terry Richardson's lesser oeuvre, and you say things like "I hate silhouettes, they're always trash" then you prrrrrrrrrrrrrobably have NO credibility on judging whether an image qualifies as "art." Want to snark on the technical aspects? Go for it. However, while the nature of what "art" "is" is largely subjective & everyone has an opinion, representing yourself as an EXPERT on that aspect of photography as a medium
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Why not open a donation pool to have others support you there? Anyways I do not think that anyone will hold a grudge if you just put it off - how about doing it at 55,555? That is way more creative than the round figure. 