Monthly Archive for February, 2010

52… delayed but not dead!

I'm not dead yet!When I started my 52 project this year it was with the firm belief that I would be able to keep up with the schedule.  After all, the day I decided I would do it I sat down and wrote up a list of a few dozen topics, and I arranged them according to relative difficulty.  I assumed it would be no problem for me to pull a topic off the list, spend a day or two contemplating it, and then shoot it.  Unfortunately I found that the realities of my life sometimes get in the way of my best intentions, and I have found myself slipping farther and farther behind schedule.

No more!

With warmer weather coming I should be able to move about my largely-unheated house more freely, so I should be able to catch up on all the projects that have been falling along the wayside.  Thanks to some recent changes in my personal life I am also quite hopeful and pumped up with more energy than recent weeks, so with any luck this will be my last excuse for not progressing on the 52 project.  After all, I wouldn’t want to let down my massive throngs of internet followers (hi Farrar!).  ;)

Kittens prints for sale, and how I got there.

CLIK AND BAI MEE!!

I am simultaneously micro-reviewing SmugMug’s pro printing and sales service AND using the opportunity to try to sell some of my painfully cute kitten photos!

I needed a system for allowing clients to interact with my photographs; an ordering site where they can select the images they like, get them printed in a huge array of sizes, surfaces, materials and objects, and have the products shipped directly to them without the need for me to intervene and micromanage it. I found one that seems to work well for my level of technical requirements and professional quality, and at as competitive a price as I have seen so far: SmugMug. Continue reading ‘Kittens prints for sale, and how I got there.’