Selling-or Not-On Etsy

An online buddy of mine sells her jewelry and scarfs on Etsy at Chrysalis Jewelry TX, she offered me a bit of advice once I decided to give a shot at selling my fine art photography images there. She helped me and I appreciate it, but I haven’t really done my part. If eBay is an online flea market, than Etsy is an online Craft Mall. Like real world craft malls, there is an interesting array of items for sale. The prices range from really cheap to really not so cheap. Like eBay it’s up to the seller to set the…

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A Gift from PhotoFiddle

A while back I wrote a post about Photofiddle, a company that fiddles your photos and turns them into stretched canvas works of art. It’s a pretty cool little site. You send them a hi res color image and they turn it into art by using Photoshop type filter effects. I wrote a blog post about fine art canvas prints from Photofiddle in April. As a blogger I have been known to do paid posts and I do have ads on my blog. The post about Photofiddle was not a paid post-it was a Google Trends post and it got…

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Hot Springs Bath House

Hot Springs is one of those places that I like to visit from time to time. Not too far from home, lots of cool stuff to do, and the water really does taste pretty damned good. Last time I was there I took a lot of photos that I am still sorting through and looking at and thinking about. I try to sell my fine art prints on DeviantArt, though most of my images are not all that deviant. DeviantART is a fun place to post images and I almost always get some kind of response. Good for the old…

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Buy My Fine Art Print Blue Cross

Blue Cross The San Antonio Missions are a great place to take black and white images and turn them into fine art prints. In the Mission Concepcion, as I recall, there is a curved stairway that leads up to an open window in the ceiling. It is a very pretty place, and there have been countless photographs taken there, many of them made into canvas prints. So if I wanted to make an original fine art print out my image, I needed to tweak it a bit. I decided that a black and white print, toned blue, would be the…

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