16X20 quality northwest landscape photos
chris skach
of Pacific North West area. I am also interested in displaying my work
for sale in public area if someone needs to lighten up their business
establishment.
Contact Chris Skach @ Chris...@tek.com or call 360-892-6591
Scott Bufkin
: I have several very nice 8X10 - 16X20 matted & framed pictures for sale
: for sale in public area if someone needs to lighten up their business
: establishment.
I'm really curious about two things:
Thing 1: Is this post within the group charter? I don't have a copy
handy but I know it's outside the "norm" for this group. (Not
complaining, just curious.)
Thing 2: Do these kinds of posts get any response? It seems to me that
trying to sell photographs to photographers would be about
like trying to sell rides in a small plane to private pilots.
"Why should I pay you to do what I love to do for myself?"
(Now, I do have to admit that I own books by Wolfe, Rowell,
Lepp, Shaw, etc. and I do keep myself on Tom Mangelsen's
new catalog list - but I do it to learn from masters, not
because I want their photos for their own value.)
Anybody have answers/opinions/comments to the above?
Cheers,
Scott Bufkin
sco...@intermec.com
David Fingerhut
>Thing 2: Do these kinds of posts get any response? It seems to me that
> trying to sell photographs to photographers would be about
> like trying to sell rides in a small plane to private pilots.
> "Why should I pay you to do what I love to do for myself?"
>
You're right. In general photographers don't buy photos from
photographers that they've never heard of. They do buy from big name
photographers, but other than that they think "I can do this myself".
On the other hand non-photographers do buy from anyone, since the the
only photographer they've ever heard of is Ansel Adams.
Dave
Ben Weiner
David Fingerhut <fing...@hannah.enet.dec.com> writes:
>sco...@intermec.com (Scott Bufkin) wrote:
>>Thing 2: Do these kinds of posts get any response? It seems to me that
>> trying to sell photographs to photographers would be about
>> like trying to sell rides in a small plane to private pilots.
>> "Why should I pay you to do what I love to do for myself?"
>You're right. In general photographers don't buy photos from
>photographers that they've never heard of. They do buy from big name
>photographers, but other than that they think "I can do this myself".
I think that's kind of sad. I certainly have seen a lot of photographs
that I like - often because "Geez, I never would have thought of that"
and I would buy others' photos, except original art is expensive and
I don't have too much money. The two photographs I do have hanging in my
apartment are by somebody almost no-one's heard of, though, Teenie Harris,
a newspaper photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier.
What I find odd is, Usenet is less than ideal for selling photographs,
since you can't look at the damn things. The World Wide Web would seem
to be more suitable.
>On the other hand non-photographers do buy from anyone, since the the
>only photographer they've ever heard of is Ansel Adams.
Heh, heh.
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