#61 December 13, 2014

Hello #61

Here's another article about that "most expensive" photo ever sold, only this one sold for more........ hehehe.... Just remember that it's tongue in cheek though

http://petapixel.com/2014/12/13/artist-jeff-frost-inches-past-recently-set-world-record-expensive-photograph-ever-sold/

So, who wants to pay me 6,5 million plus 25 cents for today's gator shot (see previous thread)?? Or any of mine for that matter. Let the negotiations begin!!

:)

Hi

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Posting from 60

Hi Lins

Glad to see you're still with us

Hmmmmm. my post above has me thinking. I wonder what would happen if I set my prices at at least 1 million over FAA's markup. Do you think the sales fairy (the rich one I mean) might come a calling?

oooooooooh... what fun!! I just set a price (my markup) of one million dollars on one of my photos. hahaha Can't post the link here though, because I already posted today, but if things set properly, it's now the first photo on my profile page.

Hey, I decided that if I can't make any sales here, I might as well have some fun not selling.......... so there sales fairy!!!

Hello to #61!

@ Anne, I looked at your gator shot and I'm not seeing this stitch you talk of. To me it just looks like a regular gator. Where is this "stitch" at?

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/lilac-flowers-arboretum-madison-steven-ralser.html?newartwork=true

Busy day; I'll get back to 60 later. Was at the pool again earlier, but the school district which owns that pool has blocked FAA (along with a host of other web sites, but not C).

Judy, you actually can't see the stitch mark, but there's an area at about the center of the gator that looks kind of weird........that's not it. That's gator, but it's where I thought the stitch line was this morning until I looked at both parts again and realized that isn't it (not even close).

Hi Lins. glad your still here.

Waving to Kim ,Anne ,Steven,Judy and Lins !

Anne - oh you're a hoot! What the hey!!!!!!!! It sure can't hurt!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/nimbus-and-her-lads-from-light-to-dark--pryor-mustangs-belinda-greb.html

Warning - You will never be done of my horses. (evil laughter)

Don't see a stitch line Anne.

Came home and took a nap - wouldn't you know it was a nice day, but hopefully a few days more in store, but cold. Hopefully I can kick my funk.

Sorry about your friend's home, Denise.

For those on twitter how do you get the FAA tweet to show the photo?

MARKER FOR THREAD #61

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/goose-walking-back-in-for-a-swim-john-telfer.html

all caught up and going back to finish Thread #60

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/white-throated-sparrow-jemmy-archer.html

hello 61

@ Belinda, I love your horses. Keep em coming!!!

Off to bed I go. See you in the morning

Managed to get through an entire day without any new injuries - yeah! LOL. Thanks all for your support. Great work and I'm so happy to see all the sales! http://fineartamerica.com/featured/holiday-kaleidoscope-iv-dawn-currie.html

Waving back at ya, Ellen.

Denise, sorry to hear about your friend's house.

Tom, I think it's a setting on twitter.

Dawn, glad you are new injury free today.

I am done shopping and got the stuff wrapped tonight and now don't have a big enough box to put it all in!

Belinda, keep those horses coming. Just like a certain person posting Alaska photos. never tire of them!

Off to read before bed. Have a good night all.

Finished up with #60!

Hello #61!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/he-likes-me-he-likes-me-not-roy-williams.html

On the road all day, had to blueline to catch up. Will try to catch comments and convo tomorrow, but am wiped out now.
Nighty night!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/stone-wall-dawn-gari.html
Hello #61!!!

Caught up to here!

Good night all and see ya in the morning!!

@ Terri...Thank you for the *hugs*! Doing better today and spent some time at a local park and photographed an Osprey! If I got a really good will post it soon!

@ Ellen...Thanks for thinking of me and yes I am feeling better!

Have a good night and see you tomorrow

Tom...I just decide which one I want to post and hit the edit button and then scroll all the way down the edit page to Twitter and post it. It doesn't change anything but tweets the image for you. I don't know how the rest do it.

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Hello #61.

I confess I have not done any promoting today besides the occasional likes on FB. Been wanting to take some time off the computer. Meant to go out shooting today, but felt uninspired and ended up at a furniture store, looking for a new sofa. That was the highlight of my day.
I will try to get back to promoting (and hopefully going out for a shoot) tomorrow.

PS: Keep the horses, gators and other assorted wildlife coming. I do enjoy those a lot!

PS2: I like the idea of setting one print at a million dollars and seeing what happens :)

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Mine for Saturday (posting late today).
All caught up here & in previous thread. Marker-SJ-Sat-pm11

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/illusion-celeste-manning.html

Caught up to here!

Caught up to here.

Hi! coming back to do some more voting and promoting.

Tom - I do what Lee does as well - but you can also load photos directly on Twitter, or when I use Tweet Adder I can load pictures too - I use a low resolution watermarked file for that.

Good night all

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Finished #60 and Marker M caught up here. Just Likes & Faves today.

Denise - So sorry about your friend! 22 years ago this week, 2 weeks before Christmas, I was 9 months pregnant with my daughter (who turns 22 the end of this year), our apartment burned up - it was awful - and so scary! We didn't lose everything but were out of our co-op for four months, moved back home a week before my maternity leave ended - it's more than "just stuff" - you really feel unsettled for a long time after losing your home - either temporarily or permanently. Despite the relief and gratefulness that you've survived, the uneasiness that settles in lasts a long time. My sympathies to your friends - what a nightmare!

Just saw The Imitation Game - highly recommend it!

Took a nice long hike today - it was a beautiful day - and took some pix at the John Jay Homestead, even saw some chickens there, then came home to find a huge buck lying in our yard. He got up and hobbled off slowly with one leg in the air, toward the main road, then sat down again. We called the police and they sent an officer over. As soon as my husband and the officer approached him, he took off. The cop called him Tripod and said it was on old injury, the poor thing has been managing like that for a while. It was dark so no pix - unlike that gorgeous one you took Pamela! Keep those wildlife pix coming - horses, gators, deer, birds, etc.

My image for Sat.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/chinese-pagoda-jamie-pham.html

Only likes/favs today.

Hello!

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Good morning all. My Molly if flying around the house this morning, so funny. Wish I could have some of what she's on.

XX

Good morning from Southampton
*waving North *
Grey start but the day is perking up. Might get the Christmas decorations out today, time is ticking on

Good morning.

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-road-to-self-promotion--1-per-day.html?showmessage=true&messageid=2238104

Special Featured Artist is up.

Good morning everybody, from the potential millionaire (although no collectors yet).

And for those who may have missed it, I give you the $1,000,000.00 (is that enough zeros??) item that's now on sale for that price (to me...... it's higher with FAA's markup). Wonder if I have the most expensive photo for sale on FAA???

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/river-rock-anne-rodkin.html

Marker

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/savannah-green-house-henry-kowalski.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/they-call-him-bob-joan-carroll.html

heading home....here is a pic from the DMZ...it's hard to decide it it's surreal and dangerous there or kitschy since there are so many tourists. Maybe all of the above.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/fort-myers-beach-kim-hojnacki.html

Another repeat from me.

Joan, have a safe trip home.

Anne, I'll take 2!!! LOL

XX

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Have a good one and see you later

Sorry Kim. Limited edition of one!! I'll even sign it for the buyer.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/gaillardia-j-l-kempster.html

Leuviah Angel

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/leuviah-david-gatinois.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/trestle-transcendent-lee-craig.html

Thanks and have a great Sunday!

Denise - sorry to hear about your friend's home...saw several like what you described on the news-so sad
Belinda - love love love your horses
Anne - who knows??? interesting how much FAA's "base" price went up!!!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/teton-range-in-a-cloud-surround-debra-martz.html

@ Debra....... yes, isn't it? FAA should be pushing this one, given how much they'd stand to make on the deal. LOL I won't hold my breath though.

Good Morning,
Fabulous work everyone!
@Denise sorry to hear about your friend's home.
Thank you so much for this week's feature! :)
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/deep-purple-cindi-ressler.html

Happy Sunday!
Thank you for looking!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/old-fella-holly-obriant.html

Good morning and I caught up on this thread with hash tagging tweets, likes, favorites and comments for those that comment. Didn't sleep well last night..had really bad indigestion, going to be a long day.
Denise, so sorry about your friend losing her home...how horrible.
Tweeted your Million Dollar Baby Anne...too funny... why not a Billion?
Debra, it is interesting that FAA had such a large mark-up...They must tier price too! LOL
Belinda, I love the horses...and the bears and everything else.
Roy, glad you are better
Lins, have you ever gotten anymore response?
Somebody makes AWESOME Beautiful Creative Handmade Christmas Cards....you know who you are and I was so excited to receive such a Gift of Love. Many thanks!!!
Back to the Loft to paint...

Oh and congrats to Cindi for being chosen the Feature of the Week...You Rock Girlfriend!

Happy Sunday! Off to catch up on twitter.
Tom, I do what Lee does, or I retweet from HootSuite (I use the free version), which lets you retweet your own tweets and keeps the picture.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-fresco-palace-king-women-music-6-udaipur-rajasthan-india-sue-jacobi.html
Happy Sunday! All caught up! Marker-Sun-pm

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/rose-red-deena-stoddard.html

Thanks for looking

Leaving for work soon.

Jan, I want to see these handmade Christmas cards.

Have a good day everyone.

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Good morning! Hope everyone is doing well. Just finished my 16th day in a row at work, have only had 3 days off since November 3rd. So, you could say I'm getting a little weary! Looking forward to the Christmas shutdown. We are hearing all kinds of things, but the one I hope is true is that they are talking 12 days off! Please oh please oh please!

Have a good day!

Hang in there Judy!

Been trying to keep up with voting this weekend but the place I was staying at had THE WORST internet connection! So I hope I got everyone! Have a great day. Sitting in Orlando scareport now with alot of irritable families and unhappy children. The person at Starbucks was not a happy camper either. Such is life in the mouse factory

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Happy Sunday

Good morning!

Anne - That is bizarre how FAA's base price went up - is there something that says they must make at least 10%?
Have a good day!

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Just in time to still say good morning! Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Anne that's outrageous! Oh it would be so cool if it sold!

:)

Good morning.
Lots of tweets & RTs l/fs, a few comments this morning. Thanks for all the promos. Keeping a bunch I previously retweeted open so I can come back and tweet them later.
Slept late, time to upload my pix from yesterday and see what I got. Also need to do some Christmas shopping. Got a bunch of stocking stuffers at TJMaxx back in November and haven't done a lick of shopping since...better get a move on...
back later. Hope everyone's having a good weekend. Gray here today so glad we got out when it was so beautiful yesterday! ((((HUGS)))) to all suffering from really bad weather - this storm cycle we're in is really scary!
Marker M

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Maybe we all should follow Anne's lead and price one image at some ridiculous price. If i do I'll even fly to the buyers place and sign it.

I can see FAA promoting your image big time Anne as they stand to make a boatload of money when it sells.

Seriously though, has anyone here ever seen an add or promotion directly from FAA? I don't recall ever seeing one. Maybe I'm reading the wrong stuff or watching the wrong television program.

Went to my company Christmas party last night and won a GoPro. I'm not big on video but this could be a fun toy.

Belinda, I got the dreaded 404 on your link.

I'll stop back in shortly.

Hey, if anyone is crazy enough to pay that price, I've got a bunch of friends I'd be happy to share a little of the wealth with.

Now I'm wondering if I have the highest priced item on FAA. I hope you guys will promote it on other sites. :D Hey, you never know who's looking, right?

And where is Tutu these days? He'd better bring that Lear back if SteRa and I have to fly somewhere to deliver our art.

Thinking about that guy who allegedly "sold" the most expensive photo in the world; I suppose if I were to change my listing price to $6.5 million plus 25 cents, I would then take the title if I were willing to pay the discounted rate for buying my own item?? Using the million I set for that photo as an example, a 40 x 60 inch metal print would only cost me $236.58 (plus any applicable shipping). Interesting concept, huh?

You're too funny Anne!

Congrats on your win Bill - it should be fun to play with! I once actually saw that FAA TV ad shortly after that contest last year - way late at night on some cable channel.

Back later.

Thanks Marianne. I haven't had this much fun in I don't know how long, and I hope it's at least making you guys smile a little.

Good morning all. Some RTs, FBs, and +1s as I go in and out this morning.
Hoping to get out shooting this afternoon, but not yet sure where I should go this time.

Mine for today:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/huntington-beach-sunset-nadim-baki.html

My contribution for Sunday:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/bird-of-paradise-ram-vasudev.html

had a sale! http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=44cf971b93eba29bd9eb5c2b30bd7311

and another sale!http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=82da2cfa9af5895dbb32f698a4dce311

Joan's been on fire lately! Tissues all around...

70% off on of this magnificent stag silhouette, and a pillow to.

Jan, no answer after I went ballistic at being told I haven't tried.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/wildlife-monarch-of-the-park-linsey-williams.html?newartwork=true

Thank you

XX

Thanks Nadim, it has been an amazing month. It's my best ever! I will need more than a box of tissues

But Lins.......... you're only charging 1/2 a million? oooooops. never mind. I see the large size is going for a million 8. LOL

Glad to see your pillows are finally showing up!!

I should say thanks everyone for your amazing support! You guys are the BEST!

So sorry your having a "bad" month Joan...passes Joan another box of tissues...

wow, Linsey, the greeting card is quite the deal!

Marker

Anne - think about marking one of my photos up to $750,000.00

Just have to decide which one...lol

Anne its a sale thats why, and I am now doing the pillows one by one for heavens sake. I may be gone some time.

Congrats Joan. Doing the begging letter as I type.

I actually made a sale on a stock site where I netted more than a quarter. I netted...wait for it....two dollars and ninety cents!!!

LOL Terry W I just noticed you said congrats on the sale of me stag. I havnt sold it but I am having a sale with bargin prices.

Woo hooooo another begging letter on the way for you Terry. Well done anyway.

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Marianne, I guess I just don't stay up late enough.

Congrats on all the sales.

Lins - I'm sure the stag will sell. I'm just PRE-congratulating you :)

LOL Nice one Terry. I will share if it does sell.

Knew I should have used hand sanitizer after catching up - y'all gave me the flu!
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=1f22a5428a5f219ad31c8919a333b721

Well, all of a sudden the pillows are there on all images.rolls eyes smiley.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/let-your-heart-soar-terry-weaver.html

Here's my quarter million dollar image...lol... a repeat.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/edison-bulb-allan-morrison.html

My last Christmas image this year, probably not what you would expect from me
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/vintage-christmas-angel-terri-waters.html

Lins, I congratulated you too. Hopefully a good omen

@Lins, me too - guess I missed the pricing LOL.

@Terry, I've been working on stock photos today - processing and keywording power lines and other stuff like that, have a few holiday images selling frequently along with the usual standbys. On target for a record Number of sales at SS this month but mostly @33 cent subs so may not even make it to an average month $-wise if I don't get a lot more ODDs - it hurts when you make 7 sales in a day and only net @2.31, but it does add up over time - those $2 sales add up a lot faster - so fingers crossed for you. Hoping some ELs come through before the end of the month for both of us. Stock sales vary so much $0.33 one day - $300 the next (a far more rare occurrence), but it all adds up I guess. At least on SS I get sales every day so it looks good til I do the math, LOL!

Working on my New Year goals, hoping to go from 300 to 800 images here by 2016 - that's 10 new photos a week which seems manageable. Apparently 800-1000 images is the range where sales become more regular on FAA.
@Joan, as our master saleswoman, with nearly 1000 images, wondering when you saw a big jump in your sales? I know you've been selling well for quite a while now.

Fingers crossed for you million dollar sellers LOL!

From memory, and it often fails me, I think Joan had her first sale only a year ago, maybe 18 months. There is hope for us all.

Wow - it seems so much longer - but then I feel like I've know you guys forever LOL!

Terri, I see you're close to 800 - did you see a jump at some point? Your year seems like it's been going nicely sales-wise here too.

LOL Marriane thank you. I have changed the wording now to 70% off

I'll go back and tweet it Lins!

Looks a bit like the guy in my yard last night LOL but I can't afford to buy it. Need to get a new house first!

:)

Marianne - we certainly don't get rich doing stock do we? Makes me feel good every time someone downloads one of my pics though. Guess it's an ego thing!

LOL Marianne thanks.

Outstanding image today Terri m8

xx

Caught up to here!
Off to tweet ,tc those big ollar items! Maybe we should all do it! Lol!
Anne thanks fo the chuckles, you too Lins!

Tree decorating later with the littles!

Cooowee Lins !

Cooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Ellen, awight?

Great work everyone! See you later

Marker

My link: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/above-the-tide-sandra-spalding.html

Thanks folks.

COOwee one and all.
Marianne, I've got 813 images, if that's what you meant. I need to get me finger out and sort the other 200.
Aw, Lins, TY M8 X. Bit of a shocker to you I'll bet

Ella's Stop Sign

New sale:
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=08cfdf7f86afa21cece8ca1aef9fc4d1
Link for today:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/london-skyline-abstract-10-mb-art-factory.html

home from the scareport, finally. Got the car packed up for the week, I will be at the JRB all week trying to sell some photos.

I saw someone say....so I went and looked. My first sale was March of 2011, then not another one till Nov 2011, then another in June 2012. So it was slow start!

delete

a small sale: http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=417db1a095b2dc90cc398c774cb2123c

Thanks, Terri - actually what I was asking for those of you with lots of images and decent sales, was at what point (i.e. how many images on FAA) did you start seeing sales pick up?

e.g. About a year or so ago when I reached 200 images I had a nice little surge in sales, not seeing any change between 200 and 300 which I just reached this month. Just wondering the minimum number I need to start expecting monthly sales - I know it's different for everyone but I think that the number of images you have online influences how much of your work gets seen - and if someone sees one image, then they're more likely to look at your portfolio...

Anyway, would love your insights

Joan, I was typing while you were ... thanks ... how many files did you have online when sales started getting more frequent? And good luck this week!

Marianne, I don't know...it wasn't something I was thinking I should pay attention to then. I didn't even think about the number of images being an issue until you all started mentioning it here. Looking at my portfolio now, about 20 from the end was uploaded in March of 2011. Nearly 100 from the end was uploaded in Nove 2011. However, I have deleted a bunch since then, so there's no way to know for sure.

I just peeked and I have 254 images here at FAA. I usually doing some "cleaning" after Christmas as I only want to keep my very best stuff. I do the same over at Z. But i never delete before the holiday season as you never know what's going to sell. I've actually sold 14 of the same ornaments over at Z. Something I just threw together one day for my BIL.

The` tree is done, now for the rest of the house! love watching the kids do the tree together and that my oldest granddaughter appreciates the special ornaments that were my mom's and has claimed them to be hers oneday!

Awww thats lovely Ellen

Ah, so it was a year after I joined that Joan took off properly. Knew a year came into it somewhere
Good point Marianne. I'll look it all up when I get the time. Prompt me if I forget as this is an interesting insight

Night night to all. X

Goodnight :)

Thank you and goodnight from Southampton

RoyMarkerSunEve...all caught up to here!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/chillin-hh-photography.html

Hi everyone! Another photo of one of my favorite birds to shoot. Thanks to all who visit and special thanks to you who continually promote my work to SM ,,, you know who you are.

I guess my twitterer sync from the upload page is NOT working. So what else is new? Then, all my default pricing for pillows disappeared and then suddenly reappeared. I can commiserate with all who are having problems with the site. As my favorite news correspondent, Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say, "It's always something! If it's not one thing, it's another." :)

Congrats again to all with sales. Hope the sales fairy visits each and every one!

BBL ....

Chillin for a few with my little one and doing some +1's . Caught up to here!

Ooooooooppps!dang twins!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/surreal-shamans-eye-shapeshifting-jaguar-ellen-levinson.html would love some extra loving for this one! Thanks to those who vote and promote I really appreciate it!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/purple-tree-orchid-iii-linda-brody.html

Denise. My sympathy goes out to your friend who lost her house...

Marker M

Ellen enjoy the kids!

Thanks for the info Joan & Terri.

Good evening. Caught up. Thank you for looking.
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Thanks Marianne - I try to, today was a really good day! LOL

Marker

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/coney-island-rides-john-telfer.html

all caught up

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/desert-view-jemmy-archer.html

Oh crapola...closed the wrong tab and lost my convo!!

There were congrats for sales.

A smart mouthed comment for Anne about commissions.

Another smart mouthed comment for Lins about sales and Kohls (which she would not have understood anyway being from across the pond.

My son loves his GoPro and I once saw an FAA ad on TV.

That I loved that Ellen's granddaughter wanted those special ornaments someday.

That my first sale was immediate...that first week and then it was a year til the next one and then it was me that bought one and then...well it was darn slow!

Spent most of the day away from the computer once I got caught up this morning. Finished up the Christmas shopping and visited the youngest grandchild.

Got home and discovered that the sales fairy had visited me also! Sold two over at the C place today to a collector in New Jersey.

Terry...I have an almost identical piece with a condor and the same quote! Cool!

Lins...I believe I'll just have to settle with a greeting card at $4.95 :)

Goodnight everybody.

Had to blue line tonight, very sorry. It was a long weekend and didn't end well. We had a missing/endangered man that was last seen on Thursday. The Sheriffs office searched all weekend.........and no luck. Unfortunately he was found late this afternoon in the Ocklawaha River. Very sad.........

On call tomorrow and a doctor's appointment as well. Just a check up, oil change and oiling my joints. Tuesday I get a full eye exam, but I hate having them dilated.........

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http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cloud-and-innocentes-pryor-mustangs-belinda-greb.html

For tonight. Guess FAA has problems with the hyphens - didn't change the title on the other one. Oh well.

Congrats to those with sales.

Helen - LOL - Roseanne Roseannadanna - that brought back good memories!

Good night.

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Thoughts and prayers for all

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Hello!!!!

Wow, Joan you are on a roll.

I had my first sale here 3 months after I joined. 8 months for the next one and then at least 1 or 2 every month. 7 sales in 1 month is the best I've had. I have just over 600 images right now.

Lins, I will need a bigger discount to get that photo. I just spent a million on Anne's! LOL Oh wait that was declined by the bank! I guess I can't buy anything.

Have a good night. Loved my art walk tonight.

Oh Bill, Congrats on your GoPro. My grandson has one and loves it.

Lee LOL re Lins ,Kohl's and the greeting card! Congrats on the two C sales! Was wondering how things were going over there. Wish I could join y'all but won't happen very often til someone either fixes my computer or gets me a new one! ( and it's not in the Christmas cards unfortunately!) hope you hd a fun visit with your grandchild.

Making banana bread for the grand kids ,hey love it for breakfast and snacks, and planning what Christmas cookies to make but not til next week or they'll all disappear!

Donna ((((((((((hugs))))))))) hope you're snuggling up with Sammy. Not an easy day for any of you!

See you all tomorrow

Doing a spin on Anne's idea, I've decided to generously offer exclusive rights to my entire portfolio for $1,000,000.05 - As soon as I have a buyer, Ill retire and photograph at my leisure. :D

Marianne, I started out this year with a goal to get to 300 images. I was up to265 until I deleted roughly 60 from a private shoot that I never promoted and didn't expect any sales from. I've been on here for a couple of years now and have a sale roughly every month. My biggest worry is to keep the quality up. I'm sure I have at least 30 that I could post but I think I have another 30 I could or should delete.

Goodnight.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/isaiah-9-6-dawn-currie.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-quiet-moment-karen-silvestri.html

I took my picture walk with my daughter tonight. She enjoyed viewing the art of so many talented people. Good night!

Turns out this pillow thing is probably a good thing. While going through pricing my pics I noticed quit a few without any description and many of them with no Pricing for the phone case, not that I would ever expect to sell a $35.00 phone case, not counting S & H. I cases for less than 5 dollars all over the place. More maintenance.

Goodnight again.

Marianne,

I've seen from my observations that having volume does boost your visibility. But I doubt the is much difference between say 100 and 800. But once you get into the multiple thousands then it definitely does. Time to build search engine rank, keywords and general appeal to buyers of a particular image are probably the most important. Have seen plenty of examples of people with less than a few dozen images who have one image thst sells left and right.

Thank you so much for the kind words for my friend. We are like sisters. Bad thing.. Insurance covers a tiny part of it. Good thing, she just bought it a year ago after adopting 3 children from Africa, so she does not have a lot invested in it as many do who have their homes half way paid off. The inspector was really cool to pull out some of the pictures he found laying around that fell off the wall that we took when she was getting off the plane with her new family. Tears everywhere.

Marianne- wow, what a holiday that season was for you! I am sure it made the good ones that much more special.

Kandy- with your luck, please move out of California.. YOU brought Derek here single handedly! LOL

Anne, you kill me.. However, every curator says you should have at least one high priced shot in your portfolio... lol


I'm with the others Brenda- I am so in love with your mustang pictures.. I really do look forward to them. Not only is it such an endearing subject, but you have the knack/skill to really capture there essence.


Still have a lot of left on the thread, I just needed to take a break and .... chat....

Back to work!

Had a great sale...woohoo

http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=12bac62c3ecc742775d5cfbc09f3e4d0

and bought these from the grandkids... I'm caught up 24 and not posting today except sales...
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=b18337312912c6bc50f56aed2a88e9c4
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=b18337312912c6bc50f56aed2a88e9c4
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=fcf5e69c5af6cf904386c3fa3b293106
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=9b0ab4fc5ac210aaedcc2183163dcac8

You guys are too funny with the million dollar sales...Anne I hash tagged it to death...Lins, glad you got them up.

Marker

Fantastic sales everyone! Way to go!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tear-drop-celeste-manning.html

Caught up. Just likes and faves. Currently working 12-hour days, then I get to fly to Fairbanks with the kids. Have not seen my husband in four months so I am really looking forward to spending Christmas with him. Looking forward to shooting some winter photos up that way, too.

Great work tonight and thanks so much for sharing your sales/portfolio size info. I should have a few thousand files by now here but I'm really slow when it comes to processing photos, researching, key wording, and deciding what should be "art" and what should be "stock" and where the two meet.

Congrats on all the sales here and on those other sites!

Finished a photo that I took yesterday but researching keywords so will upload in the AM. Goodnight. Marker M.

Joan, maybe you would have less writing fatigue of you listed those that haven't sold this month.... Way to roll!


Took a few shots last night but haven't had a chance to pull them up. So here is an older one that needs some attention.


http://fineartamerica.com/featured/beyond-now-by-denise-dube-denise-dube.html

Great work on todays walk!

My image for Sunday:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-of-time--the-jagged-rocks-and-cliffs-of-montana-de-oro-state-park-jamie-pham.html

Finally got more promoting done and caught a few of you I'd missed - sorry!
Need to start promoting my own work! but too tired - have to be up again in 3 1/2 hours with the kids! Uggghhh!

Waving to MIDDLE EARTH!!!!
Morning Lins and Terri!
Kettles on and hot banana bread with chocolate chips is on the stove!

See ya all around midday!!!!!

Congrats to all with sales!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sit-a-spell-marianne-campolongo.html

One I took Saturday - mine for Monday.

Hello. Sold a 16.00" x 10.63" framed print of The alhambra at sunset to a buyer from Richmond, VA - United States. Thank you so much to the buyer! http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=dc4ab3e459a1d1a0a79340b465f12183

All caught up:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cubillas-lake-guido-montanes-castillo.html

Morning all.

Ha haaa Lee you have the bargin of the bargins there me dear. Congrats on the C sale by the way. And ,pray, forsooth, what is a Kohl?

Donna, sorry for the sad ending. So sad.

LOL Kim, but you could get the card at a very very big discount. Such a #bargin it is not to be missed you know.

LMAO Dawn thats funny.

Denise that is so sad.

Ellen thanks for leaving the kettle on.

Time to do something.

Laters xx

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/buyongjeong-pavilion-in-secret-garden-ii-joan-carroll.html

I'll be away all week at the joint reserve base, probably just voting by phone. I hope I can sell some stuff....

congrats on all the sales!

Good morning everybody

Good morning.

Ellen, I sure hope you have some of that banana bread left.....

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/wakodahatchee-wetlands-anne-rodkin.html

I'm a day late, but let's play a little Where's Waldo.......... only in this case, Waldo is Kim. A little hint? It's not the obvious!! Have fun!!!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/savannah-bonaventure-cemetery-angel-henry-kowalski.html

Good morning...still in Savannah mode

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/arlington-memorial-amphitheater-kim-hojnacki.html

A new one from me.

Can I play too Anne. I know where I am! LOL

No fair to the others Kim.......... and we know it took you awhile to find yourself!! LOL Must be really good camo, huh? hahaha

Marker

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/breathless-pink-rose-bud-floral-art-ella-kaye-dickey.html#comment16656801

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/rest-those-tired-legs-lew-davis.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tango-dancers-rovinj-croatia-stuart-litoff.html

Have a great day and see you later!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/love-on-the-rocks-k-hines.html

@ Donna...very sad indeed. Sorry for all involved.

You all made me look...588 images here...felt like more!

@ Cathy...enjoy your reunion!

@ Ellen...promote your own before you post it! You should come first! We won't mind! :)

@ Lins...Kohls is department store that hands out coupons and bonus bucks that you use on top of colossal sales. Guess they must be over-priced to start with to still make money on stuff! :)

Now to find Kim!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/stepwatch-lee-craig.html

Just some dirty old concrete and bricks that could use some love...thanks!

Good Morning All

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/xmas-refelections-linda-troski.html
Thanks for the support.

Lin

That's a mighty big lens you are holding Kim!! :)

marker

That's what I was going to say, Lee. :) You shooting with a Canon, Kim? Hope you got a good shot of whatever you were looking at.

Good Morning Everyone! :)

Kim, I guess you and I are the blind ones here. Looks like nobody else is having trouble finding you. LOL

Good morning
Fantastic work this morning!
Lots of comments, tweets and G+'s
Thank you everyone for all your kind comments! I really, really appreciate them! :)
Not getting many sales here, but I am on E
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/buoys-kaleidoscope-cindi-ressler.html

Good morning! Here's an older one today. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/bald-eagles-angie-vogel.html

Found her !!!

I guess we were blind Anne.
That is my new and first white lens. Yes I shoot with a 7D.

Good morning!

My image for Monday: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/scissor-tailed-flycatcher-portrait-roy-williams.html

Good morning, caught up again...
So sorry Donna and Denise
This was the First time I had a sale with a frame. $6.77 profit off the frame! I do know who the buyers are but only through my son. They saw the original hanging in his house. I was surprised to get a sale..They are a young couple with one child and twins on the way. They just redecorated their bathroom in rustic decor and though of the painting of the barn. I'm a happy camper.
I only have 104 images. Started with less than 20...43 are actually originals, approximately 10 are photographs. Had my first sale on FAA four months after joining. Thanks to Terri Waters, her work and giving me ideas, I have about 40 to 50 in different versions. So for me, I think getting out there personally with the business cards and showing your work whenever possible, hanging them in different places has helped my sales along with all the promoting I get from you guys. Six sales total from strangers, but I have sold many of the sales I have purchased myself here...not counting the sales and commissions form Facebook which is actually gaining on FAA now. The sales fairy told me Joan is wearing her out! She says Joan has some secret power that keeps pulling her to Texas. Fairy Girl herself is not even aware of what the secret is. She says that Reedy had the info of the secret without his knowledge but lost it in Alaska when he turned the Kayak over. Wasn't surprised to hear that.

wow Kim, you sound like Kimmy Oakley

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/evening-bliss-hh-photography.html

Thanks to those who take a look. Much appreciated.

Waaa??? have I missed summat?

XXX

Marker

caught up with #61 http://fineartamerica.com/featured/valley-of-mt-sneffels-steven-reed.html

a repeat

been awol a couple of days, had an really "off" weekend on so many levels. (actually I was in hiding when I found out the chocolate and wine that I found on the silver tray wasn't for me)

Lot's of things happened while I was "hiding"

We have a few future millionaires in our midst

So sorry about your friends home Denise, California really needed the rain, but not all at once!

and we have enough pillows for a terrific pillow fight!

Wonderful artwalk this morning, now to go catch up on #60.

Checking my pockets, I've seem to have lost something very important!

peace

Lins, to what are you referring dear?

Yeah!! Pillow Fight! I'm in...now don't go crying Reedy when I hit you!!!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/who-is-with-me-on-this-debra-martz.html

Found Kim, also. Looked for a camera!!! Then saw the white lens!
Hugs Donna.

For those who don't know, that's Kim's first "white" lens, and I can't wait to see the photos she got. We had an absolutely lovely day, even though we didn't get to see the bobcats. And Kim was an angel when it came to putting up with my bad back issues, and always there to lend a helping hand.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/malachite-butterfly-5-judy-whitton.html

Sorry, but I only had time for likes, fave's and facebook shares. Had to drop my car off to get repaired from an accident I had a year ago when some guy at work rearended me at a stop sign. Procrastination at it's finest! LOL

Congrats on all the sales, you sure are keeping that fairy busy!

Have a great day!

Took me a while, but I found Kim!
:)

Good morning, happy Monday!

Thank you all for the support!!
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/trees-of-the-lake-holly-obriant.html

Jan. Summat to do with Kim, Waldo and a big white one?

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/celtic-circle-kandy-hurley.html

Thanks for the likes comments and promos ..Much appreciated

@ Lins........... Kim is in today's post by me. Both she and I didn't even notice it at first, so it takes a little looking to find her.

Ah got ya Anne. She is that little dot up top left all by her lonesome?

Morning - found Kim with Linsey's help.
Not much time today as errands before work, so have a good one and see you later.

Gorgeous work today - will try to come back for shares and comments later - L/F so far today - terrible ear ache today so going to the ENT later which makes my busy crazy day even crazier. Will try working from my cell phone in the MD's waiting room since that should give me lots of time LOL.

Kim was easy to spot :) Can't miss that big lens!

((((HUGS)))) Denise, Donna and your friends. Denise, when I moved back to my co-op, a ton of people I barley knew, including people from the other 13 apartments who lost their homes for months like we did, came by with gifts for my then new baby. Adversity really brings out people's generosity!

Marker M

Good morning all. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Sucks to be back at work. Ah well.

Here's mine for today:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/point-vicente-lighthouse-nadim-baki.html

And I'll be heading back from here to hit up everyone in #61.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/brick-pathway-to-the-lighthouse-dawn-gari.html

Joined Aug 2013 sold my first image in December 2013 ,and then sold my second in July 2014.

Thanks for the tweets - got your work retweeted (figured out how to search for my name without the @campyphotos- will try to get over to G+ too.
No pillow sales other than from my hubby, but just got a deposit from FAA for November's big sale, so feeling pretty positive - you guys are hot though - congrats on all the sales! Marker M

All caught up! A lot of FBs and some G+ this morning.

Denise, sorry about your friend's house. That sucks. I was in your neck of the woods yesterday shooting from Hilltop Park in Signal Hill. Then also shot the christmas lights at the lake near me. Will be uploading new stuff soon.

Marianne, I too am curious about when people start seeing a jump in sales. I've recently reached the 100+ mark and have a lot more old material, but tend to only want to upload the best of the best. Not sure if that's the best strategy... I think about trying my hand at stock sometimes, but it seems like even more work for no significant return.

Joan, you truly are on fire! I love those macro abstracts you keep posting..I need to try my hand at more of that (I have a macro lens, but tend to gravitate towards landscapes too much).

I also wonder if there's some type of photos that you folks find sell more than others.

I tried looking for Kim in the photo posted, but it's too small on my screen to see much. How are you guys able to see anything at a bigger size than the FAA previews? Is there some kinda trick?

How do you search for names on Twitter? When I hit the share from FAA for many of you, I don't know the twitter handle and it kinda sucks having to look names up each time...Is there a shortcut to that?

Today's image: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/take-a-hike-stephen-stookey.html (an early attempt at using the oil paint filter in CS6)

Been AWOL for a for days. Worked back through 60 & 61 this morning. Fabulous work on display!

@Anne ... hope you 'rock' the sales! lol

@Holly ... congrats on completing your degree.

@Denise ... sorry to read the news of your friend's home. Thoughts and prayers to all impacted by last week's west coast storms.

@Nadim ... I used the full resolution preview to find Kim [aka Waldo].

@Marianne ... 563 images. Joined 6/9/2013; first sale (to someone other than me) 11/8/2013, with a small flurry of holiday sales in December 2013. While I'm not breaking the bank or sales leader boards, I have experienced a slow stream of sales since last March, with sales picking up a bit this fall.

Speaking of sales:
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=729499d8d170c7fe7820cd4cd8be20a1
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=b0cbc194a9c212649d6041d06a61d3f9

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-turbans-for-sale-rajasthan-india-sue-jacobi.html
Mine for Monday.
All caught up... Marker-SJ-Mon

Denise ... so sorry about your friend's house.
Donna... so sad.
Congrats to all with sales .

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/seasons-greetings-deena-stoddard.html

Thanks for looking - congrats on all the sales!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/duck-duck-j-l-kempster.html

Sold couple of pillows for Mom for Christmas. I also reduced my prices a bit so they compared to my pillow prices on E. Which I get from S6, but I've raised the prices for E. Doing some comparing.

http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=b79872d9aed64798db4b4f5564741364
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=cbb83da52c356257f2fd5d27033c94c1

Very nervous right now. Have an appointment with a realtor on Wednesday.......... and the place is still a mess.

http://40-david-smith.artistwebsites.com/featured/yellow-warehouse-david-smith.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mountainscape-of-skiddaw-cumbria-linsey-williams.html

Thank you

xx

Passes a pint of Baileys to Anne. x

For Monday: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sego-canyon-indian-petroglyphs-and-pictographs-gary-whitton.html

Lins, I'm not so sure a pint will do it!! LOL I'm a wreck!! And so is the condo!!! At least he can't say I didn't warn him

OMG Anne passes another and here is a crate, you notice a thing after that. Get some down he estate agent to.

@Nadim - it's possible to search for your name (without the handle) if your name is left in the tweet from here. You also can search via our lists (you can get people's lists, I have a long FAA one) to see who's tweeting and retweeting, so people can see you've tweeted even without the handles. I just tweeted without using handles - but made sure I added hashtags at the end - since I'm pressed for time and there is no fast way I know of - I have an alphabetical list I saved in Notes that I cut and paste from but this is getting so time consuming so rather than give up I'm going for tweets with hashtags since I'm sure those whose work I've tweeted can find it even if it doesn't show up in their stream.

So, tweeted a bunch without handles and retweeted on my lunch break. Off to the MD. Marker M

@Anne you're way ahead of me. I haven't even gotten a painter and carpenter in yet, never mind a realtor. Hoping to get the place presentable for Christmas company. Good luck with the realtor!

RoyMarkerMon...all caught up to here!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/fall-color-napa-style-bill-gallagher.html

I try to get over into Napa Valley every fall but missed last year. This is a new one to this thread from me. Thank you for the support.

Marianne, I'm not ahead of you. Decided that I'm not putting any money into this place, since most buyers just gut them and start all over again anyhow.

Waving to Anne and Marianne and Lins!

Anne -good luck! Probably a wise choice!

Good afternoon everyone! Caught up ! Promoting and voting for those who return the favor , tired of wasting my time on some people!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/jaguar-eyes--ellen-levinson.html Thank you for your support!

Here ya go :) http://fineartamerica.com/featured/-terrestrial-flower-sandra-spalding.html

Marker

Caught a case of Sale's Fairy Flu: http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=f75bb56a7af796c32fde4be3bd94e6ae

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/beautiful-cedar-key-d-hackett.html

Congratulations to all that have caught the Sales Fairy Flu, I'm sending out tissues as we speak.

Thoughts and prayers for all

=^,,^=

Caught up again! Lots of tweets, google,pinterest and fb shares and a whole bunch of +1's . Didn't get to retweets.

Waving goodnight across the pond!

Great work everyone. See you all later

Question: Has anyone here used RB? How do their prints/canvas/metal prints compare to FAA or C? Anyone getting sales there?

updating with a blue line

I must be really slow...are Tom and Dawn related? The only Gari I can find on my Twitter searches is Tom...two links. I feel so silly having to ask. Seems to me that Tom's wife is a photographer...they are both from Philly...oh the more I talk to myself, the dumber I feel. :P

Nadim...You know those lists we all were doing last week? Open yours or subscribe to a good one and open it to members in another tab. then, until you pretty much know most of them, you can check back and forth.
I've never taken the all extra time to look for #myname, but always thank and make sure that I've reciprocated the @myname in the notifications and any that I run across in the feeds.

Anne...I always work better under the gun...you were just biding your time!

Congrats to all the happy buyers and condolences to all you sniffling sellers!

Lee, Tom and Dawn are hubby and wife. Because they're on the same IP address, we've given them special permission for both to post and get promotion.

Lee. Thanks for the info. Yeah, I have my own list. But when I'm at work, I don't have it, and it's definitely a bit tedious looking through it every time I want to tag someone. I am definitely focusing on the hashtags (as Marianne suggested) as that seems more important anyway.
Of course, retweeting is much easier, as I just hit the RT button and it automatically includes the correct @yourname for the art's original author (or at least the original tweeter).

Soon be Chrimbo marker

xx

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/2-seascape-maria-bobrova.html

hi everyone!
here's mine for today. looking forward to seeing yours

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/aspen-trees-cathie-richardson.html

Blimey O'Reilly, that took some sprinting to get here I can tell ya. You lot don't half rabbit
I spotted Wally straight away. Worked out where Lins would be if I had my camera out and yep, there she was, lurking in the bushes.
*Hugs to the D's*. Tough times.
So sorry for all the germs circulating. I think if we put Joan in isolation we may all get over them
That reminds me, can folk please post their image links at the start of the post so folks on teeny tiny screens can see them. You could miss out on a click if you don't.

Too funny Lee I was doing the same thing with Tom and Dawn

I need to take the time to alphabetize a Twitter list I'm spending way too much time hunting up and down my list..I can't find Deena on Twitter either

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/religious-neighbours-terri-waters.html
Thank you for looking

The only problem with using #nadimbaki versus @nadim_baki is that second way brings people to your page and increases your tweets, retweets and followers and the first doesn't. The people who follow you can get the feed of the folks they follow and what they follow is @nadim_baki.
Unfortunately there isn't usually enough room for both in the tweet or both would be the way to go. Guess it would just be a matter of what you are trying to do with the promotion.

Thanks for clarifying Anne!

So Dawn...which Twitter account do you want tweeted to? :)

Don't think Deena Tweets, Kandy.

Yeah, that's the problem Lee. When I meant I was hashtagging, I didn't mean the name, but rather arbitrary keywords.
What I mean is, say I'm promoting one of your abstract pieces from the FAA link (if it was on Twitter, I'd just retweet it), and I didn't know your Twitter handle, I'd tweet the FAA link and then something like #artprints #abstractart etc....
You wouldn't be notified because your Twitter handle wouldn't be in there, but your art would be promoted to all my followers and the general public, and hopefully the #abstractart hashtag would get you on the search engines and so on.
Point being, of course adding @LeeAnnCraig (or whatever your handle is) is better, but I think it only affects whether you're notified or not that I tweeted one of your pieces. More important, I think, is getting your piece out there and having it show up in people's searches, and on my feed for my followers (not that I have all that many, but that's besides the point).

PS: I just re-read your post a second time. I guess I missed the part where having the person's twitter handle correctly would allow viewers to then click it and come to the person's page, thus increasing the audience that way.

Roll on Christmas.

Night night. XX

Since we're on the topic, let me throw another thing at you all.

I noticed that a lot of tweets do not include a visible image. So unless I click on the link, I'm not going to see the actual image. While I have no problem RTing people's links, I tend to want to see the image, but clicking on each link gets a bit tedious, specially with Twitter being such a fast moving medium.
I've made a point of making sure my tweets of my own art have photos included either by uploading a smaller version of the photo to Twitter directly, my preferred method, or by using the FAA sync (when you upload or edit a photo, it will publish to Twitter, but not when you use the share button on FAA).
I find that when I'm scrolling through pages of tweets, my eyes will automatically gravitate to the ones with photos visible. I suspect our general audience is probably the same.

I prefer uploading my own version of the photos because the FAA approach means I have to go edit the photo in FAA (even if not changing anything) and check the box that says to sync with Twitter. And on top of that, I end up with the way FAA shows photos on Twitter, which is a slightly tilted canvas print (that's often chopped up by Twitter). I'd rather show my photos in their best light, personally, so I prefer uploading myself.

Anyway, sorry for the novel...Just sharing my thoughts on SM as it seems we're all learning as we go.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/old-horsewoman-mim-white.html

Re twitter - when a tweet is too long what is the best part to remove, does it matter? I know I've seen this discussion on C but nt sure what the finl decision was!!!!!

Thank you and goodnight from Southampton.
Turning the lights off in England

fixing David's link

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/yellow-warehouse-david-smith.html

marker

That's correct, I can not be found on Twitter...not enough hours in the day! Thanks for trying to find me though, Kandy!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/desert-view-grand-canyon-jemmy-archer.html

Sister image to yesterdays - a few steps to the left. Thanks for all your kind comments and support. Re twitter, if I see that someone has tweeted something of mine, I always try to return the favor, but since the tweets sent straight from here don't have my handle, and I'm only on twitter once every day or so, I know I miss a lot. I do check my FAA followers list, but there are so many, and there are lots of people who tweet and retweet ALOT, I could spend hours going back 24 hours on that list! So that's a long winded way of saying thanks to those who include my handle, and I'm sorry to those who don't include my handle, if I missed reciprocating.

Congrats on all those sales - I'd pass the tissues, but my daughter and husband both have bad colds, so we need them around here!

Marker.

Have a good night and see you tomorrow

I'm finally caught up...filled out my Christmas cards today, thought I would take a break from painting...then I reorganized all by prints, canvases etc that I just left in the basement after the Santa festival. took all day long, exhausted, so tomorrow, no more breaks, I 'd rather paint. Sorry no hashtags again today.
Anne sounds like a good idea to me. Don't invest the money in the place. They will probably just gut it.
Lee you are too funny! The more you talk to yourself the dumber you sound!! (Ididn't say that-she did)

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-scrub-jay-in-palm-tree-linda-brody.html

So busy blue lined only. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/deer-relaxing-tom-gari-gallery-three-photography.html

Image sold again http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=dd2830ac3982ded5da9d16b5a41a79f5

@Lee I had my own Twitter @TJGIII and created the other @Gallery3Photo but never used it so my wife took that twitter feed over. We share a crated and photo4me account only because They have never had a sale

I started 11/11 it took until May 2012c for my first sale and sept 2012 for my 2nd sale. Last year and this year have been good.

Off to bed..........see y'all in the morning. Have a good night

RoyMarkerMonNite...all caught up to here!

I just sold my 2nd pillow! http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=882ceec9fe75fdcf0b42e2530a43e20a

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/peacock-eyes-terry-fleckney.html

Caught up on #61, mostly just bluelined. Things are settling down, am starting to feel more sane again, but probably won't be here on a regular basis until after Christmas.

Sorry I didn't catch so much that has been going on. Denise, sorry to hear about your friend's house. Not sure of the details but I know how devastated I was for years after we were broken into. There was only one thing stolen that I still miss 30 years later, a statue that my dad had carved and given to me for my 21st birthday.

I gather Lins and Anne are about to become millionaires! Congratulations in advance.

Congrats on all the sales!!

Good night!

Evening marker

Terry f- glad you're feeling a bit better! Good to see you, hope you have a beautiful Christmas ( in case you aren't back before then).

Good night!

So time was short today and I tweeted with hashtags and no handles. I'll stick with my alphabetized handle list going forward - I keep it as a Note on my Mac so I can access it anywhere, but cut and paste on an iPhone is a pain.

Marker M

If you're not on twitter I probably commented - everyone got a like and a fave. Doing some retweeting too - no time for G+ today - congrats on sales.

Managed to process and upload a couple of new and old unprocessed photos in between everything else today. When I look at my sales here, a lot of them have also sold on traditional stock sites, so I realize that I can broaden my definition of "fine art" and will probably upload a lot more of the photos I already have that have gone to calendar companies and magazines - doing my year end analysis, I realize that I probably have a few hundred photos ready to go that I should have online. I only want my best here too, but I shoot around 10,000 images a year - a lot of bracketed shots and the like, of course - but I really should be able to make my goal of 800 by 12/2015.

I'm curious, how many of you guys also shoot stock? Know of anyone who's sold stock on here? I haven't priced mine for stock here because I have a lot of RM stuff on here that is priced by use, term and size, the third variable isn't available here, and I won't allow a full sized image for web use. Alternatively, I don't want to sell microstock and framed photos from the same site. I make a lot more from stock - even my microstock sites each earn me a decent amount - than I do here, but I've done okay here, even based on the traditional stock photo metric of RPI (return per image: total amount earned divided by the number of files you have online).

A lot of my stuff on here is stuff I wouldn't sell as stock but then there's a lot of overlap.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/memory-of-lion-gardiner-karen-silvestri.html

Here is the link with Twitter handles. I hope this helps to find members. I check it every few weeks to see who has added their Twitter account.

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-road-to-self-promotion--1-per-day.html?showmessage=true&messageid=1500852

@Tom - I've been using your wife's twitter handle to tweet your stuff - appreciate the shares and likes on C BTW - tweeted your sale of that awesome boathouse with the right one tonight!

Someone mentioned a discussion on C - can you send me a PM with the info please? - I'd like to get involved over there - happy to stick with this group that I know will reciprocate!

Tweeted the last bit with handles but most of you will have to search

Marker M

Waiting for midnight so I can share my newest image :)

Hello :)

Terry F - so glad you're feeling better ... nice to see you ... Merry Christmas if you're not back by then :)

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/calla-lilly-celeste-manning.html

Finished processing a new batch of photos from yesterday's shoots. I'm not happy enough with the edits to upload just yet. Might need another pass at it tomorrow night. I work kinda slow, hehehe.

Marianne, I really am interested in what you have to say about stock, but have never tried it (here or anywhere) and am curious as to what the best way is to get started.
Feel free to share any insights.

I've also noticed that my portfolio here and on the other 2 sites is a mess. Ideally, I'd like the same photos to be up on all the sites where I sell prints. But I've never gotten around to uploading the same ones I have here onto the other sites. And I keep putting it off. At some point, I need to sit down and go through each photo, one by one, and make sure it's available on all the sites (or is removed if I deem it not worthy). What a pain this all is. And it's not even my day job, haha.

That's it for me for today. May pop-in a bit later with an upload IF I do manage to revisit a couple of images.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/autumn-sonata-belinda-greb.html

Good night all!

Tuesday's offering: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/randys-donuts-stephen-stookey.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-obelisk-marianne-campolongo.html?newartwork=true

Ancient art in NYC - love this (the Obelisk) - took the photo on a shoot with my daughter last year when she was taking a photo class at NYU and finally processed it today. I have som many pix of NYC but very few online. I guess having grown up in the city (the Bronx) and going to law school then living and working in Manhattan for years, I feel like it's all been done, so what do I have to add? Very nearly didn't upload my black & whites of Central Park for fear they were too cliche but then sold a nice big one shortly after uploading. . . so here's something new.

Lots of RTs tonight. Wiped out - thanks for all the promos and special thanks for all the lovely comments on Monday's image. I do wonder why objects sometimes speak to us - nature people and wildlife are easy to understand - even inspiring architecture - but I'm not sure why we love objects as subjects for photography - but I know I do :)

'Night

@Belinda, wondering how you get the shortened urls with the photos to show on twitter?

@Nadim - this IS part of my day job and I still find the organization a nightmare. I'm very slow and meticulous about processing so it takes me ages to get things online, and I agonize about whether and where it should go. Since I started showing in local galleries I'm constantly agonizing over pricing too and have spent countless hours just pricing and repricing and pricing again. Too tired to put together coherent thoughts about stock photography but will try to organize my thoughts and give you some info.

caught up, I already posted this morning, a bit out of routine for me.

@Terry F glad you are doing better.

I have figured out that I know twit about tweeting, and apparently have been twittering wrong (not using handles) when sharing, my apologies, still haven't quite have it figured out, but this old dog can learn some new tricks.

So Tutu doesn't know twit about tweeting,,,,,, but he sure can twerk!

(Tutuman twerking into the distance, now there's a wonderful vision to start your day off with)

peace

Nadim, the next time you come out this way to shoot let me know. I would love to go shooting with you. My Early morning sunrise buddy just moved out of town so I don't get out like I want too.

Kim-- 70-200L or bigger?

My attempt at a Christmas card... Not my thing but thought I would give it a try....

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-peak-into-christmas-vin-by-denise-dube-denise-dube.html

@Tutuman I stopped using handles just to learn why I should LOL. This old dog is constantly learning new tricks too thanks to this wise old group :)

Waving to Terry F ((((HUGS))))

Oh my god! I reached in my cabinet about an hour ago and took what I thought was my Folic Acid. I started feeling very strange and making a lot of typing mistakes (more than the usual), I checked and found I grabbed on old bottle of klonipin instead. I didn't know it wan in there.. My eyes are rolling in back of my head! So, the last few only have comments, l and F, I will go back tomorrow and share them when I am coherent... Guess I might as well lay down and enjoy it now....

I agree with Jemmy and Lee, I make an extra effort to reciprocate those that share my work. Adding the @ in from of my name makes it very easy to know who is sharing. I don't have the time everyday to research on Twitter who is sharing that day. Its just a foolproof way to let that person know you are sharing in addition to allowing potential buyers find your page directly which has paid off for me as well.

Thank you Karen for reminding me of the Twitter handle link..

Typing is really getting hard now... Catch you all on the flip in the morning!

My image for Monday:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sea-cave-jamie-pham.html

Only likes/favs today.

Hi all...'puter troubles last week...did I miss anything LOL

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/safe-in-the-arms-of-love-puppy-art-jordan-blackstone.html

Marianne,

Thanks for the comment.

Denise, I will let you know next time I'm out that way. Unfortunately, I hardly ever manage sunrise. I'm too lazy to get up that early. I'm more of a sunset kinda guy.

Image for Tuesday: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/white-spirit-roy-williams.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/seoul-rooftops-joan-carroll.html

have a great day!

Marker

RoyMarkerTue...all caught up to here!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/savannah-fountain-henry-kowalski.html

For those fatigued with Savannah images there is no reprieve :)

Good morning marker.

Reedy. The twerking comment and this wonderful vision cracked me up. Thanks for that. X

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/snowy-egret-anne-rodkin.html

Good morning everybody,

Going to be a busy couple of days here, prepping for the real estate guy, but I'll try to keep up as best I can.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/snowy-egret-anne-rodkin.html

ooooops. Not sure if I accidentally broke the link, but just in case.......

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/rovinj-dawn-croatia-stuart-litoff.html

Nice to see you again Terry F, and glad you're feeling better.

Have a good one and see you later

Marker

Merry Christmas

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/stained-glass-3-lew-davis.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/ville-de-lion-j-l-kempster.html

Morning! Hope y'all have a fantabulous day!

Marianne, when I saw your question about "anyone else shoot stock," I was hoping for a tutorial from you. Would love to have you educate us!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/serendipity-floral-art-ella-kaye-dickey.html

Thank you for all the nice comments on my rose image from yesterday. I appreciate every visit, vote and fav received.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cuteness-kim-hojnacki.html

Good morning. Had to work late last night so to catch up I had to do the blue line express. sorry.

Denise, not sure what you took, but hope you are ok. that is a 70-200L lens. Now my dream lens will be the 100-400L II. Really need lots of visits from the sales fairy for that one.

Congrats on all the sales.

I shoot stock for Getty. I don't have a lot with them, but do manage to get sales there. I have had 2 book covers of the same image. A floral and I have it on here too. I love when you can find stuff "in the wild". Before Getty changed their pricing structure I did really well with them with $$. The Flickr Getty Group was where I met Anne when I first got accepted to Getty.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/toad-in-the-wall-k-hines.html

Wow...had a terrible time getting in this morning! It kept taking me to the 2013 discussion threads!!
@ Jan...you should have heard me talking to myself this morning...dumb and dumber!

@ Tom...so I promote you on the TJGlll and Dawn on the Gallery3Photo?

@ Tutu...wondering if the twerking is what sent me back to 2013 this morning!!

FAA is back on Amazon, in case some of you didn't know. search your FAA name in Home and Kitchen (I think it is)...the images are handpicked by FAA staff.

Nadim...thanks for following me on RB. I have a terrible navigating that site.

Still battling with S6 and still wondering why my twitter link has to have some elses name on it http://society6.com/product/rock-biter-abstract_print?curator=elenaindolfi Not happy and they don't respond well over there.

Walking the art walk and sharing your work.

As Kim mentioned, I was with Getty, but I walked when they started changing the game. Right now, I'm with (as you've all heard too many times) Tandem Stills and Motion (tandemstock.com). No sales there yet, but I only have 26 images that have been accepted (and 34 rejects). I still haven't figured out what's good for stock; since there seems to be no rhyme or reason for what's been accepted vs. rejected. Of course, there has to be a rhyme or reason. I just haven't figured out how to know which fit that criteria. Just when I think I have it figured out, I realize I don't (and have been that confused since the 70s).

Tandem works a bit differently than other stock houses. They have their own licensing format, and prices are fixed based on usage and "demographics" of the purchaser (demographics meaning stuff like magazine publishers, and circulation. stuff like that).

Ellen...the New art available blurb at the first and the via @fineartamerica can go from the tweet. that takes you to FAA not to image or the artist.

I use the @handles when I tweet your work and add the +name when I G+ your work

Have Tom and Dawn @s straightened out now on my spreadsheet

Hello, all caught up!

This is mine for today:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-fall-river-guido-montanes-castillo.html

Good Morning, Everyone

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/xmas-at-hubbard-park-linda-troski.html
Have a nice day
Lin

Lee, is it worth trying to get hold of twitter itself to see if its their problem. Maybe clutching at straws but hey, worth a try.

Geez, can you guys just hold up a second every time I think I am caught up, someone else post...
quickly here I go.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/christmas-card-snow-gates-chapel-jan-dappen.html

thanks for all the info guys...
finally caught up...for a minute anyway..
Anne good luck with the REAltor
Terry F. waving and hoping you get back , glad you are feeling better..Merry Christmas to you and anyone else not making it back.
Lee, I feel that way all the time.
For those that don't already know this. If you are on your computer/laptop, when you open the Twitter window on Faa, if you hit delete without selecting, it will automatically delete that first line about new art. Then you can hashtag yourself silly.
thanks to you all for supporting, commenting , liking,and especially promoting. I do no tget the time to thank everyone personally and I am truly sorry for that, but i hope you appreciate the promoting I do instead. For those of you that thank us, I am impressed that you make the time..You rock!!
I'm sure there was something else I wanted to say, but cannot remember.

Good morning! http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tree-swallow-angie-vogel.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/widewater-in-autumn-francis-sullivan.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/columbine-lee-craig.html

Don't know why I haven't promoted this one!! Guess it's about time!!

I was offered licensing through Flikr, but found out they wanted me to upload full size images to my own profile. FAA is the only site I upload full size to. Anyway, they selected well over a hundred images, and it would have taken me hours to find and resubmit full size, not to mention, they also picked images that I knew wouldn't be good full size. It didn't make any sense. After a little more research, I decided to decline their offer for now. Not having any experience with this type of scenario, it just didn't feel right. Did I make the right decision?

Lins...has nothing to do with twitter. She has curated several artists (she is an artist there as well) in a new curator/earn money program they have there and she has attached her name to the links. Not happy about it. Check your S6 work folks. Hit your twitter button to check. This gal is attached to dozens of artists there.

Morning!

Lee _ thanks that's what I 've been doing, sometimes even tat isn't enough - does it matter if you remove the title of he image or a portion of it - not the HTML link part?

So tired up all nite going to nap back later!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/palette-springs-steaming-top-debra-martz.html

I delete the "new print for sale"...but not the title and usually "via @fineartamerica" But, After what Lee said, I'll take the later part out each time from now on.

Also, @username is not case sensitive which saves time when working from memory! Example @LeeSeesArt also works @leeseesart

Wonderful Art walk this morning http://fineartamerica.com/featured/winter-gazebo-steven-reed.html

a repeat, I really need to get some new stuff uploaded.

Thanks for all the help with twitter, I think I might be doing it correctly now, with all the hashtags, handles etc.

@Henry, not tired of your Savannah posts at all!

All this talk of handles,,,all I have is some love handles..

Oh yes, I am in pain this morning,,,,yes you guessed it,,,a twerking injury. I was just practicing my Tututwerk, just really going at it,,,loud music with a wonderful beat, I was really getting into it, when doing the twerk, my tutu slide past my "love handles" and fell around my feet causing me to trip, into the coffee table, shoving it into the Christmas tree, knocking it over on me. The next thing I knew is the tree was lifted off me, and there was my wonderful daughter, giving me the "eye roll" and the "I can't believe I'm related to you" look.,,,

Have a great day, laters!

peace

Hey Tutu........... tell Kendall to join us here and then she'll really find out who she's related to!!! LOL

Good morning,
Lee--did you try emailing to the report intellectual property violation would that help? When I wanted to have the option to have pinterest removed I used account information and got a response rather quickly. Also did you notice that you can't G+ there anymore.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sunflower-kaleidoscope-cindi-ressler.html

Angie,
I think you made the best decision regarding the Flickr licensing. There is no way I would ever upload a full res image without watermarking it to death on Flickr.

Off to work. have a good day.

Cindi and all with S6...I finally got a response this morning after almost 3 weeks of trying! A long email basically stating that they didn't do it, she did...quote "The link you provided appears to be a link created by a fellow Society6 member that is sharing your content with their followers."

Hope you aren't too bruised Tutu!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-paintbrush-flower-steven-ralser.html

Another old one from NM. I think I got the flower name right.

Congrats on sales.

I'm up to just over 600 images - aim is to get to around 1000. I know some of it isn't the greatest, but I'm taking the Amazon approach - the long tail. 1 person might find an image they like - earlier in the year I sold a large canvas of one i didn't expect to sell. I joined beginning of 2013, had my 1st sale in june, then a small one a the end of the yr; a couple at the end of Jan, then 1 a month or so over the summer, but nothing since Sept. After joining E beginning of sept, i had a number of good sales there in the last couple of months. Nothing on Z,RB,C,or p4me. I'm going to continue to add some better stuff to E after in the new year.

Someone nation a discussion on C, can you PM the info; thanks.

Don't know how often I'll be back on, as we're leaving on a jet plane (just decided to get a tune in your heads) on Friday, and have lots to do before then. We'll be back the end of the year. I'll be at the pool a couple of times this week, so I should be able to pop on again then.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cozy-ornate-balcony-window-jaisalmer-fort-rajasthan-india-sue-jacobi.html
Happy Tuesday!

Marker

Happy Tuesday.

Sorry Stookey and Litoff, I totally mixed up a tweet that was meant for @DrStookey. I think I fixed it though.

And I forgot to say thank you Stookey for the congrats!!

Have a wonderful day, and thank you for all the support!

This is a new star thing I'm trying, tell me what you guys think.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/as-the-world-turns-holly-obriant.html?newartwork=true

Tuesday's submission: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-walk-to-remember-terry-weaver.html

Good morning. Caught up.

Two new sales:
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=d26d00ec03c14dadbc3a10d9aaff2101
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=7416bcb864c7dcee8ad0a99fed26994b

image for today:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/london-skyline-old-vintage-mb-art-factory.html

Morning all!
Finally uploaded some new material last night. Pretty happy with the series. It was shot at my local neighborhood's Christmas lights boat parade 2 days back. So literally "fresh off the presses".

We'll start with this one for today:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-house-of-colorful-christmas-lights-nadim-baki.html

And now I'm off to work my way back to my previous marker.

Marianne - thanks for tweeting the stock image that sold. Sold another one today for another $2.90. Not sure how you found it? Maybe I posted it somewhere? I'm so crazy busy these days I don't remember what I'm doing.

Ok. All caught up. Did the quick blueline express this morning. Will go back as time permits for FBs and Twitters.

Holly. Love the star trails. Been meaning to try that myself but haven't got around to it just yet. It helps to be somewhere with low light pollution (the desert, for example), from what I've read.

Re: stock. I'm already way confused just having read the few tidbits you guys offered in the past few hours, LOL. I might have to hold off on entering that world.

Kim. I love the 70-200L (I have the f/4 version, the f/2.8 is even nicer, but more pricey). For birds and wildlife, you'll love the extra reach of the 100-400. I have the original version and have considered replacing it with the newly released version 2. But that too is rather pricey. My one beef with these 100-400 is they get a bit too heavy to handhold on longer walks. I'm actually considering replacing mine with the fixed length 400 for birds and the such. It's quite a bit lighter, but of course, there's no zoom.

markermarker

Off work today & been burning DVDs for my dad for hours. He took his old Kodachrome slides from when we kids were young (there are 5 of us) and scanned them to his computer. I made him a movie from the slides with transitions, titles, music from the era, the whole deal. He liked it so much he asked me to make DVDs for all the kids, grandkids, cousins, etc. So I'm here burning the DVDs, making a nice cover, playing with scissors, etc.

ROFLMAO Reedy, thanks again. X

Morning - wonderful art walk; running late.

I will try to start using @twitterhandle - after New Years. Right now, I just don't always have the time, so it depends on whose I remember.

@Lee - that's absurd - did they indicate how they're going to resolve it? How can someone else change the main page link?? I can see if she has a page she's collected as a curator and the tweet is coming from that page, but your page??

@Marianne - As I said, I use Tweet Adder, so on I load my tweets, and they have a url shortener built in and they also have a spot where you can upload a low resolution image (I watermark mine). I also like their retweets as I can add names, and also add in a tweet keyword like first name so it picks up on the tweet of the person I'm retweeting not just someone else's work they're tweeting. Then I also tweet direct from FAA as I go through these threads (not all just my favs of the day).

Prayers for all those children in Pakistan and the rest of the dead killed by the Taliban.

Off to work.

For Tuesday: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/stairway-to-heaven-north-window-arch-gary-whitton.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/great-egret-with-frog-ram-vasudev.html

I might have to look into this TweetAdder. Sounds perfect.

@Lee at the end of my twitter bit on s6 it says this. curator=utm_google does anyone know what that means?

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-head-above-all-marcia-lee-jones.html


This is the season for lights and friendly smiles!

Great work everyone!

Off to the dentist

See you later

Stay safe Stuart. Steve RA if we don't see you before Christmas have a nice time.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/one-golden-hour-in-autumn-linsey-williams.html

Thank you xx

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/glow-hh-photography.html

Hi everybody! My post for Tuesday. Thanks for taking a look.

Got to go back to midnight and catch up with all the latest news and beautiful work. :)

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/made-in-the-u-s-a-deena-stoddard.html

Caught up with everyone playing by the rules...have a good day, all

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/fowey-rocks-lighthouse-manuel-lopez.html?newartwork=true

Oh Jordan, I am so sorry... I am still pretty out of it this morning. I thought on G+ that I had clicked the hashtag dropdown on #englishbulldog instead, I accidently hit #Englishbullshit.... I caught it after I cut and pasted it to my Facebook Business page... I hope I deleted it before anyone shares it! On a normal day I am not a morning person and this is proof!

Marker M

Finished with Gary - sure more will pop up when I hit submit. Back later
Tweets for the tweeters and comments for everyone else.

No time to write a novel on stock photography - here's the teaser:

I'm no expert but I have licensed a few hundred traditional stock photos (i.e. @ $35-$300 each use - traditional stock used to average $100 or more per license but it's been dropping since before I even started back in 2009) to magazines all over the world including Smithsonian, Coastal Living, and many others, lots of newspapers (those can be as little as a few dollars even with trad site Alamy though some are more), for calendars, many books and websites like travelandleisure.com I've also licensed thousands of images for websites, books, magazines, etc. (including Scientific American) via the micro sites shutterstock, dreamstime and iStock by Getty for a few cents to $28 per download. Along with the agencies, I license stock directly via my Photoshelter site and through direct licensing agreements I've earned via traditional queries (I'm primarily an editorial/architectural assignment photographer, though health issues/injuries have slowed that down a lot). I'm with 4 trad agencies and 3 micros and earn enough from the ones I'm with that I'm sticking it out for now. Getty doesn't treat their photographers well, but I'm keeping the 93 photos I have there since they earn me a couple hundred a year and are selling for peanuts on the other micro sites anyway. Have 300+ on the others, ~700 on alamy, a handful on boutique sites in Wales and Germany and on 500px and image brief which I joined this year.


I agonize over whether to put images on the micros where they earn more because the peanuts add up or keep them on trad sites, so that has kept my # of images online low and on my hard drive high. Was just accepted to Spaces which requires exclusivity and sells images as prints on here for less than I do, so I need to decide what to give them and remove from here.

Seems I wrote a novel after all and half of it disappeared. The gist was that I don't want to clutter up this thread more and cause problems - hope Kim's okay with what I've said so far - so PM me and I'm happy to share more specifics and suggestions if you think my experience qualifies me to help. I'm primarily an assignment photographer so stock is a small part of what I do but it's growing despite all the competition. I see it as a nice nest egg as I loom closer to retirement and it's been a godsend giving me something to do along with FAA when my health has kept me from taking on assignments.

@Belinda - tweet adder sounds good - I tried something else but they randomly followed people and retweeted anything which I thought was useless, so I avoided the automation but this sounds good - nice way to control things and do it in one big swoop but without everything being tweeted all at once. Thanks for the info! Will look into it in the new year!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/marley-the-shar-pei-with-ball-terri-waters.html
This is Marley. He is the Head of the Pub that you saw the Christmas images of.

Kim, It was a very strong anti-anxiety pill I was prescribed with my brain surgery 8 years ago.. How that was still around is beyond me.. But I still am a bit fuzzy in the head from taking it.... I love my 70-200 it is my go to lens most of the time. I am with you.. the 400 is next, I have the 2x extender but it just isn't as sharp and very bulky.

Lee- I couldn't find any of my work on Amazon but I did get side tracked for awhile looking at the camera gear....A whole new wish list... That Twitter hijacking is messed up.. Korea?

Ellen= first always get rid of the @fineartamerica.. The last thing we want is potential buyers clicking directly to the FAA landing page instead of our own.

Back to the walk...

All this talk of Flickr, it seems like I just read recently where Flickr has been found taking unliscensed images and selling thos also :0

limping twerking tutu mark

Just found out you can tag people in your tweets - did you know that? Now I get why some are popping up in my feed. Tagged the Coast Guard with a tall ship share. Maybe I'll get lucky, have sold 4 tall ship/coast guard pix on here so far - all to coast guard folks so fingers crossed.

Resisted the urge to drool over camera gear on amazon - found 57 of my photos with widely varying price tags - interesting choices - I should do some Christmas shopping ... but need to stop playing with SM and get down to some paid work LOL. Feeling very undisciplined these days! Laters!

Marker M - still need to work down from Gary

@Terry - I was checking out your portfolio there and tweeted the link to one I liked so maybe it helped you get the sale? I like to think it did - my good deed for the day LOL.
Love your stuff on there.

Yay! I had a sale and they used my $5.00 off coupon and bought the 26" in square one so my SM suggesting a big one for a little kid to snuggle on worked! Whoo-hoo!

http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=2257b3779ca85edd2bf7cd1ad4cd815c

This made my day!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/cali-gold-bill-gallagher.html

This is a shot of my fur baby looking out over a local valley during a hike earlier in the year. Posted last February but she could use some lovin'.

You guys really have my head spinnin' but I would love to learn more about stock photography. What the look for, what sells, how to price it, where to post it, etc.

Thanks everyone.

Marianne - that's wonderful that the photo you liked is the one that sold twice in 2 days! You must have good taste :)

I also just sold a travel mug on Z with my version of Edvard Munch's "the Scream".

Lee- you can actually report her to the FBI internet Fraud division. They will go after her and S6..That is a major violation and it doesn't matter if she is out of country.. If they find she is deliberately fraudulently doing this they will track down all of her links and shut them down. Yes, she will come back but at least they will have her in their database. .

mark it

RoyMarkerTueAft...all caught up to here!

Markety mark mark

XX

Jolly HO HO HO

Cooooweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Lins!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/under-the-arch-ellyn-levinson.html thanks for all your votes an d promos~!

Coooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Ellen, Awight?

All caught up again...MarkerNB.

Cooooooooeeeeeeee Ellen & Lins!

Marker M

Marker

Link: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/breaking-through-sandra-spalding.html

Congrats folks on the sales :)

Sincerely,
Sandra

Coooeeee Marianne

xx

Cooooweeee Marianne!
Caught up, tweets,goggle plus,+1's, FB..... Great artwalk! Trying to remember all the twitter handles!

Gotta go make chicken Teriyaki!

Happy Chanukah to those who celebrate!!!

CoooooooWeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one and all

cOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Terri

My take on the stock business. If this were 2005, I'd say full speed ahead. Shoot fast, shoot broadly, with all the quality you can muster, and figure out quick what people want. If you'd done this you'd be making a killing today. But since 2005, the micros have flooded the market with images (probably up to 40 million on top sites), and this has had impact on the traditional stock houses, and the prices that photographers could command. Getty going ghetto on its prices and what percentage it pays photographers now is a great example.

Personally I tried it for a few years, and uploaded probably a thousand images, to roughly 8 different companies, from Alamy to Shutterstock.

I haven't uploaded a stock shot in probably 2 years. The staying power of my earnings has been impressive, considering the limited portfolio I had and the number of years since I actively participated. But it was never going to earn me a living, not unless I had 20k images or so. And with other obligations that paid far better, it just wasn't going to happen.

So now I just shoot what interests me.

Marker

Really guys???? Twerking???? I take just a few days off and this is what goes on? I guess if that is what it takes to keep the sales fairy happy, something seems to have her in a good mood lately.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/you-can-fly-terry-fleckney.html

Well it is official, I apparently live under a rock! FAA does throw pillows?!

I am at a program for my don so I thought I would catch up a little while waiting! I am going all the way to start! Can't wait to see all your work!!

Welcome back Terry F and Ambre.

Night night one and all. Behave ya selves, if you cant behave, then be careful please.

XX

Terry - your work reminded me I had a piece where I used that quote but wasn't happy with the layout - reminds me I need to revisit it.

Great art walk today to brighten up a cold rainy one! :)

Waving to Ambre!

Gary - I agree with your take on stock but given my large portfolio of travel images particularly, it's still a decent additional source of income for me, but not a full time one for sure. Wish I'd learned about stock earlier and had uploaded like crazy in the early days. I've added little to my micro portfolios in the past few years, but earnings are rising as my better selling images rise up in the ranks. It's not a get rich quick scheme and it's a lot of work for any real reward. I've done best using traditional query letters (emails) to get my portfolio in front of volume buying publishers. Moving away from alamy and toward smaller more targeted traditional stock houses, but micro is still viable - my new images are starting to gain traction and old ones are still selling - mind-blowing to have daily sales when you think that your images are competing against 40 million others.

Glad I bought stock in shutterstock ;-D

Marker M

Ambre, welcome home and happy Christmas !
Enjoy the performance, buckle up and enjoy the ride. You know what we are like so questions on a post card please ...

What Lins meant was 'Don't get caught' ;)

Cooooooooeeeeee Terri!

Fantastic work everyone!!
Goodnight :)

@ Terry W...sounds like a time consuming but very worthy and heartwarming project!

@ Belinda...concerning the S6 - They didn't say how it could have happened nor did they offer to resolve it. It is obviously a glitch on their part that allows it. I checked 23 FAA artists who are also on S6 and when I tried to tweet the work, she was attached to 18 of them also, so this is pretty widespread. She is also, I believe FAA. I cannot believe that this is allowed and even encouraged through their curator program. Thinking of dumping my work there.

@ Lins...you've been picked up by another artist who will get a commission off your work. That is the curator program. I really don't understand the what for's and the why's. Look for utm_google under their artists.

@ Helen...how's the tile look?

Sitting here working and sipping a 10% dark beer. I'm just galled by the amount of it that I wasted when I read Denise' apology to Jordan! Note to self...swallow expensive beer before reading comments from Denise!

Glad that I had swallowed before Tutu limped in!

@ Marianne...yes, I did the math and somebody stands to make an even nicer profit than usual if things are sold on Amazon and it sure isn't me.

@ Sandra...love your sincerity :) Also your work!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/from-nj-looking-towards-pa-dawn-gari.html

@Lee that is corrected

Had a sale!!
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=5c7d713e0442d7e601fd0800fb952e88

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/noe-meets-market-kandy-hurley.html



Lee...See what you mean about S6 tweets she is attached to mine as well, and I tried removing her name and the tweet was invalid...GRRRR

What are you guys searching for on Amazon? Your name? Mine doesn't seem to return any results. Is there some reason why some artists would be on there and some not?

Nadim,

It used to be about time....lots of time being here before you showed up. Now I don't know. I have random pieces on there...only a couple I would consider my best. The rest are AWOL.

RoyMarkerTueNite...all caught up to here!

Oh ok .So it's not everyone. That's all I was asking. FAA certainly works in mysterious ways :)

Nadim, I think you have to ask Admin to be included.
Lins and I both asked when it was introduced but it seems I've dropped off the radar but Lins is still in. Will look in to it later

Thank you and goodnight from Southampton

Waving frantically back to everyone!! Boy oh boy have I missed you all. The program was fantastic!! I was smiling the whole time! Well, I am going to start again with looking at your stuffs and promote as much as I can!!

Happy Christmas to you too Terri!!

Waving to Amber...nice to see you back :)

marker - nice to see you Ambre!

Terrific work on display today.

Suffered an afternoon sale: http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=c2510ebcb8ff82ef62b71e59c727f74c

Note to self: work on my Twitter protocol -- get a handle on handles.

Same here ladies!

Well I am all caught up with my comments, blue lining, promoting and twerking....wait what? LMAO! You all are too much.

Beautiful work folks!! I am not going to have anything new for a while. I kind of have two drawings going on at once. I have to get this commission done though and then another one.

Congrats on all the sales folks! Well done!! I think I am going to go figure out this throw pillow thing. I am sure I will have a thousand questions for you. Oh and I still can't figure out Twitter and the hashtag thing!! I am so far under that daggone rock!!

Thank you for looking.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/early-dawn-pamela-peters.html?newartwork=true

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/doe-lying-down-tom-gari-gallery-three-photography.html

Decided daughters throat was too sore to go swimming (she probably got it from her brother, who was home from school yesterday). She wasn't to sad though, it's her 10th bday and her brother decided she needed a Nintendo ds of her own.

Re amazon stuff - I believe that the staff of FAA pick which images to put on amazon now. I still have 3 up from last time (don't know why, and they're not the greatest of images).

This time Friday well be on our wAy in that jet plane.

Congrats on all those sales... they just keep rolling out for you!

Setting my alarm clock for a blue hour shoot in the morning if it isn't raining too hard.. crossing my fingers. Just got the Emergency flash flood warning for the Los Angeles basin on the TV. Hoping it dies down by morning....


Sorry about the beer Lee.. I need to buy whatever beer you are drinking by the way....

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/dawn-at-huntington-beach-pier-by-denise-dube-denise-dube.html

Looks like the sales fairy has been very busy - she also stopped by my place today:
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=580adfff7364019bb91e718d5c0b3dec
http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=e1aec0c6641df80632ece995a5506952

Ok, I just saw an article on FB and I am grossed out. I don't think I could ever buy a piece of artwork when a certain body part was used to paint it! I mean, gross....just gross. I am posting the link, but please don't be offended, if you are, I am sorry, not trying to be offensive (thankfully, from what I saw, there are not any pictures of the man painting). To each their own....but GROSS!!

http://www.edgemedianetwork.com/news/international/news//169385/danish_artist_uses_penis_to_paint_kim_kardashian's_butt

Congrats on sales Dawn!!

Thought Photoshop was supposed to have EVERY paintbrush. I'm going to have to contact Adobe on this one. Thanks for the heads up Ambre!

Marker

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-brink-jemmy-archer.html

Welcome back Ambre!

Thanks for the stock info, Marianne!

Gorgeous, creative work y'all!

Terry W - you cracked me up!

Oh there's my painting partner Ambre, we haven't talked in so long! LOL
Terry F, it is true, they misbehave every time you leave, but I'm being good!!
Lins, and if you cant be careful, have enough fun to last you.
Nadim, like Terri said...you have to ask them and then you have to ask them again to upgrade. At least, that is how it used to be.
Anne, was the realtor goodlooking?
I am caught up...but if you didn't get tweeted, I don't know what is wrong with my computer, typing is slow, cannot manuever we, browser keeps coming and going, twitter is slow., Guess I will have to resort to twerking..
Yes Reedy, Anne has been hanging out with some guy all afternoon... :-p

Jan, the only thing I've been hanging with this afternoon is a dust cloth and a vacuum cleaner and a floor mop. The realtor is tomorrow afternoon.

I'm off to bed. Have a good night everybody

Sure Jan, I had no doubts about you! (cough, cough)

Great work everyone!

Hey Ambre. Thanks for the interesting article. I think it must be hard to paint with a penis.

See you all tomorrow

Lee,Deb, and others.... Not sure what is what.... Use the @lee for tweeting (which I don't), and use . Linda+ on Goggle+? I thought on Goggle+ you use #lindabrody for example in ?? I am new to SM sites in general, other than FB... Thanks for any further explanations..


http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-and-green-linda-brody.html

Oh well off to Costco…..http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=c1f3ea514d9ebf249938163618447ab6

Good one Stuart!

Well I'm not a good tweeter, I don't know handles or #'s and I only go there on my days off. I try to tweet or retweet when you post a new image. With no internet at work it makes it difficult to keep up here and SM.

Congratulations to all those with the Sales Fairy Flu, I kinda have it, but since I purchased it I don't know if it really counts.

http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=e5a67b1520145ff8fad77736b71aee65

=^,,^=

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-moon-over-joshua-joshua-tree-national-park-in-california-jamie-pham.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/orange-sky-d-hackett.html

Back to work tomorrow and the blue line.

=^,,^=

oops, well so much for living vicariously through Anne...
goodnight Anne, get a good nights sleep. I am sure you deserve it.
Yes D, I think it counts ! Waving to you!

ROFLMAO!! Terry you crack me up! Stuart, you do as well! I think I am going to keep my comments to myself on this one....

Thanks Jemmy!! It is good to be back! I smile every time I am in this group!! I love you all!! You all know how to keep one's spirits up!

Jan - No we haven't!! :)

Serious question for all you jokers out here :)
Anyone use a Wacom tablet for their photo editing? I'm thinking of getting myself one for Christmas. Any thoughts on
1. The general benefit of editing via tablet vs. the usual way.
2. Which size and or line (Pro or Intuos) to get?

Thanks!

Nadim, I have the Wacom Bamboo and I love it. It's much easier than using a trackpad. I think it's one of the most inexpensive and I find it more than adequate. I use it for painting and other work on my photos in Photoshop - I don't do any digital drawing from scratch.

Marker M.

Watching a show on Prime about Egyptian history and they're talking about the obelisks and now they're talking about a Pharaoh who was a woman, Hatshepsut. Very cool. She was Thutmose III's predecessor, though she ruled with him when he was a boy. It looks like she may have been the one who started commissioning the obelisks. Amazing to think how old that monolith is.

marker

Still afflicted with Sales Fairy Flu ... http://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=2a0655efbdfd3d9d5a92b1c0608792c9

@Ambre ... Welcome back! ... not touching the article.

@Anne ... best wishes on the realtor visit tomorrow.

@Donna H ... great remembrance piece with the pillow.

Oh, I'm looking into investing in a filter system. Seriously considering the Lee filter system after watching the landscape class with Ian Shive on Creative Live. Any thoughts or recommendations?

I use the Lee filter system. A bit pricey to get started, but definitely worth it. I assume you are referring more specifically to the Lee filter holder and adapter kit (Lee Foundation Kit) which you would then use with square or rectangular filters (as opposed to the ones you simply screw on your lens).
I have found over time that I rarely use the various GNDs, as I can use the software GND in Lightroom with better results. The 10-stop ND filter on the other hand, is my most priceless tool (see my various long exposure works for examples).
Lee also makes a hood that doubles as a filter holder, which i don't have, but am considering using to replace carrying around the various hoods that I usually carry around (on average, I have 3 lenses with me, each with its own hood, can be a bit of a PITA).

Hope that helps!

I've got a few thousand dollars worth of screw on filters and don't have all I'd want for each lens. The Lee system sounds promising though - I hate having to spend so much on all the different sizes since Nikon is notorious for making every lens take a different size filter, have some step ups and step down filter holders, but then you can't use a lens cap - sounds like a system that prevents all the duplication would be worth it in the long run.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/1936-plymouth-muscle-car-john-telfer.html

all caught up

Exactly what Marianne said...+1'd.

Terry W...you get right on that complaint to Adobe! LOL

Stuart...Oh Stuart...oh good one!

Linda...on Twitter my link would be @leeseesart and G+ it would be +LeeCraig and you need to have folks in your circles to easily tag them on G+ . #leecraig would help me find my stuff, but I doubt that a collector is searching for lee craig so I would rather have the #'s that are searched for like #abstractart #photography #travelphotography...whatever is right for the image. If my name was Anne Geddes then definitely #annegeddes would be searchable!!

Disclaimer: The above hashtag comments are my own opinion based on my own experiences not rules. :))

Nadim...I have the Wacom and it is pretty dusty. Never could get the hang of it. Some of our digital art people will be able to tell you, though, I bet!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sunset-karen-silvestri.html

All this Twitter talk has me confused. When I tweet photos from here do the artists get notified? I am always getting texts saying my tweets have been retweeted. I only see people tweeting my work if I check notifications on Twitter, people retweeting my work or from a couple of artists. Am I doing something wrong?

Great job on all the sales!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/beached-celeste-manning.html

Karen, you only get a notification if someone uses your twitter handle. Otherwise, people have to happen to see it or search for their names. That's why using the twitter handles is better. I check my notifications and with nearly 1000 followers now even that is time consuming, so personally I won't go checking everywhere but will RT stuff when I see someone is doing the same via my notifications.

I've been trying to tweet & share on G+ more and more and will often do that in lieu of commenting when I'm pressed for time, so using the twitter handle or +name on G+ lets people know I'm sharing their work.

I've tried to be generous with my time tweeting people's work, sharing on G+ etc, but after a while, if it's not reciprocated (or if I don't know it's reciprocated because I don't see the tweets or G+ posts) I'll stop. I know people can't tweet/share every day and if someone is good about tweeting my stuff, I'm not out there looking for tit for tat, but without someone using my handle, I'm far less likely to see any of their shares. Just speaking for myself, but I do tend to do more for those I know are reciprocating and if I never see a tweet because there's no handle, I might assume they aren't reciprocating. So, in a a nutshell, that's the benefit of using handles.

I like this group because most people are generous and follow the rules and even go beyond what's expected.

Marker M.

Caught up with likes favs and comments can't tweet or g+ from here. - will get the last few of you on the morrow!
Am in a total funk and can't deal with any more agrivation from the computer this late - it might learn to fly! LOL
Am going to try to paint tomorrow - haven't been to my workshop for 3 weeks or done anything at home which isn't helping my mood!
Hoping it's a fun group tomorrow, tired of being stuck in the house sick! Going to be my first time in the car with my grandson driving!

Have nothing prepared for tomorrow so better try to sleep so I can stay awake at 6am and get ready!

Marianne - love those shows on Egyptology!

Good night friends!

And Happy Chanukah to all celebrating!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/maisie--boundless-energy-belinda-greb.html

Here's a recent one of my pooch to join the other dogs this evening.

Good night.

Karen - can you repeat your twitter handle.

Good night.

Hello, all caught up!

This is mine for today:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-first-one-guido-montanes-castillo.html

My image for Wednesday: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-portrait-roy-williams.html

RoyMarkerWed...all caught up to here!

Good morning everybody. Can't sleep, so figured I'd get up; have my coffee, and get busy here again.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/seoul-city-hall-joan-carroll.html
happy hump day everyone!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/bluebells-j-l-kempster.html

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tango-dancers-2-rovinj-croatia-stuart-litoff.html

Have a good one and see you later

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-kiss-abstract-lee-craig.html

Brand new this morning...thanks for the love!

@ Ellen...step away from the computer and pick up the hairy stick!

@ Belinda...Karen is @ibgbeauty

The tweeting and other sharing is really making a difference in the views. I've started keeping track, just to see. Yesterday's image got 401 new views in less than 24 hours. That has to kick us up in the searches here on the site at least!

Good morning.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/shermans-headquarters-savannah-henry-kowalski.html

Good Morning

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/vintage-blossoms-floral-art-ella-kaye-dickey.html#comment16687110

Good morning!

Lee - packing up the key stick, LOL!

Anne - good luck today!!!!!!! One step closer !!! Soon you'll be checking off days instead of counting months!

Prayers that everyone out in CA is okay! Sending prayers

See you all later!

Thank you Ellen. I'm a nervous wreck about this entire process, and property values here are in the dumper. My place needs some major fixing too, so I'm just hoping I can get a buyer and get a price I can live with. There are still way too many short sales and foreclosures here, so who knows?

So far, I'm pretty happy with this Realtor. He seems pretty straight forward, and the comps he sent me look just about right (except for the one underneath me that was a bank sale after years of foreclosure action, and which is listed as having a lake view. Ain't no lake view, unless it's inside that unit. LOL

Okay.......break is over. Got to get a move on here again.

Later.......

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/be-still-k-hines.html

Good Morning All

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/santa-leaving-the-station-linda-troski.html
Lin

Good morning! an older one http://fineartamerica.com/featured/streams-of-light-steven-reed.html

@Anne, who dis tall handsome Realtor guy that Jan is warning me about?
@Ambre, good to see you!

Wonderful stroll thru the Art Gallery this morning.

Congrats to all those with sales, glad the sales fairy has kept busy!

Speaking of the sales fairy, I had to stop the "sales fairy twerking" due to being injured, but I still managed to go back to the old fashioned sales dance, complete with the bonfire, beating my naked chest, grunting and make other noises etc.

Thank you to those who take the time to view and comment and an extra thanks to those who promote to sm sites. I really appreciate it!

Off to experiment with a hard paintbrush,,,,,,,,,,hey, get your mind out of the gutter, you know, if one leaves a used paintbrush that wasn't cleaned very well out overnight, the paint dries and gets hard,,,,,,sheesh, what dirty minds.

Have a great day! Laters

peace

Tutu, not to worry darling. He may be handsome, but he's not YOU!!

And just think, if he gets me a sale, I'll be living closer to you even faster.

Obviously, right about now I'm thinking about our Sales Fairy's sister. The one who sells property instead of art. Please send her my way!!

Today's offering: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/gig-em-aggies-stephen-stookey.html

Stuart & Marianne ... thank you for the recs on filters.

Good afternoon. Well it is here.

Lee it looks like the urls to my pics are back to normal today. So gawd knows whats going on over there. LMAO Re the Beer you lost. That is tragic. tol.

Nadim I only found 2 or my pics on Amazon so as you say FFA works in mysterious ways. Now there is a turn up for the books.

LMAO Terry W re the pervert. Brings a whole new meaning to the words hairy stick arteest dosnt it.

I will Jan, thank you.

Lee you never told us you made filters.

Anne good luck

XX

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/blueberry-splash-kim-hojnacki.html

A repeat. sorry I don't feel chatty this morning. Now I am out of here for a bit.

Whew!! I was worried Anne! (taking a deep breath, smoothing out my tutu)

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-veins-marcia-lee-jones.html

We have had enough rain of late to create mountains of snow!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/bejeweled-palette-springs-debra-martz.html

Push has come to shove this morning. comments, likes, faves some tweets & g+ Will be back later to finish the tweets and g+s

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-flower-blue-vase-marianne-campolongo.html

Something different for me - first taken with a lensbaby and then added textures - not sure how I feel about it

Happy Chanukah!

Awesome work all!

Happy Wednesday, and thank you all for everything!!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/what-you-looking-at-holly-obriant.html

Marker M - likes and comments for all to here - tweets for the tweeters to Henry - will be back later to pick up with tweeting - just don't want 20 tweets in a row at once - trying to spread them out.

Watching Ancient Greece this morning - while I finish folding laundry and sorting mountains of paper!

Best of luck this morning Anne! Hope you have a guest room in your new place for Kim.

Marker

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/iris-abstract-judy-whitton.html

Good morning!

Sorry I have only had time to do likes, faves and facebook shares the last two days. Got stuck doing a 12 hour shift yesterday and then had to stay over today for a meeting! Right now I'm falling asleep at the "wheel" (computer) so hopefully I didn't miss anyone. LOL

@ Steve, you gave me a good laugh this morning with your talk of tututwerking and your stiff paintbrush. LOL!!!

Congrats to all those with sales, we have sure had a lot in here.

In regards to stock photography, I have been doing it since 2005. I started out in a RM site. Money was good when you made a sale. Now with the micro stocks, it's harder to make decent money. Sometimes you get lucky and have an enhanced sale and then you make some good money. Doing stock photography was sure an eye opener for me. For as little as they pay, they demand perfection and that is when I had to start looking at my work at 100%. The focus has to be good with no grain or digital noise, both good reasons why your work is rejected. I haven't uploaded anything in over a year and still make frequent sales. I've been thinking about getting out of stock photography, but have to wait for them to payout. May have to actually upload a few to get the sales more regular before I can do that.

Have a great day everyone!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/lantana-deena-stoddard.html

thanks for looking...

Morning

@Karen - normally when you tweet from FAA, people will not know you tweet unless you add their handle. We do get notifications when someone retweets us through Twitter.

Created a list so I can add the handles when I tweet from here.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/wood-stork-anne-rodkin.html

Not the prettiest bird on the block

Lins...I generally need a filter (mouth, mind,etc) and I need so many that they named them after me! Unfortunately Elena Dolfini baby is still attached to my links over at that other place! Ready to #*(filter)*#-can the whole thing!
And yes...I'm still sad about that beer!

Alarm went off at 3:45am for my morning shoot then the sky opened. My driveway turned into the rapids. I keep loosing power, stuck using the phone so only likes and favs for now.

I love shooting in the rain, so it is letting up a bit si heading out...

Nadim I use a Wacom Bamboo as well .. love it.

Agree with Marianne. I wish I had started with Lee filters. I have a whole lot of odd sized circulars I'll never use again.
I also give a thumbs up to Marianne's comment on tweets and G+ are far more important than comments when pressed for time..

Congrats on all the sales!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/10-rock-patterns-steven-ralser.html?newartwork=true

another older ones. No penises (not even a skillful one) were used in the creation of this image.

Marker. Off to the dentist again. I just took the pain meds and sleeping pill so I'm out of here. Left off with Celeste at 12:08. See you when I come out of my stupor.

For Wed: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mountain-goat-kid-among-wildflowers-gary-whitton.html

Lee, I'm at nearly 1,000 new followers and many of my brand new images are already at 500 views or more - so SM is working at least to get eyes on my work. Wondering if my pillow sale was via FB or twitter. I am seeing many new views of my regular website coming via twitter per google analytics. Now, I just need to see more sales, but I figure once I hit 10,000 twitter followers I'll start seeing more sales coming that way, so I have a ways to go, but I had 47.2 thousand impressions this month which is kind of mind boggling, and that's bringing an average of 4 clicks a day, mostly to my site from the analytics (and also to other's work), so that's good. I need to develop a good plan for twitter to take advantage of this, but for now I'm happy to see my base growing and thanks to all of you for sharing my work!

Marker M

Very busy day at work today, so I'm just gonna drop in with my daily photo and go back to blueline later tonight.
Something new from this past weekend. Denise should recognize this spot :)

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/industrial-revolution-nadim-baki.html

Crazy day - gotta run - if I missed you on twitter today will catch you later or tomorrow. Lovely art walk today!

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/holy-cows-in-jaisalmer-fort-rajasthan-india-sue-jacobi.html
Happy Wednesday!
All caught up. Marker

Quick question. I notice most of you are posting the FAA links to your work, rather than the personalized AW link. Is there a reason for that?
Doesn't it simply push FAA rather than our own sites?

Back in a while to post


Thanks for all the promos

Good luck Anne