Urgent request to campground owners
Please have pictures of your actual campsites, facilities, scenic views, etc under the "photos" tab on your website! I am so tired of clicking on that tab only to see pictures of kids with face pai...
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This is digressing but have to chuckle when I think of the questions by Roundtwo-40.
I have been taking pictures all my life but due to a course of events including a hiking fall, complete shoulder re-construction and no more golf mandate in 2008-2009, I got more interested oin my photography.
In 2009 our photo club had a spot at a local arts and crafts show and people were to sell their pictures. I told them I was not going to participate as I did not sell my pictures. They insisted I have some of my work on display so I agreed to do that - no pricing. I printed up some 5x7" pix and put them in $3-5 WalMart frames.
A lady in the next booth INSISTED she had to buy one of them. Harranged me the whole weekend. I kept telling her I did not sell my work. She was like a dog on a bone, so finally at the end of the weekend I told her, "OK, $35" and she was writing a check before you knew it.
I looked at her and the others there and said, "I guess I just became professional".
To me that is when you cross over between hobbyist amateur and professional - when you sell something.
I guess I have been blessed with some talent as now things are going quite well along those lines - invitations to do one person gallery exhibits, being published in newspaper and magazines including a cover shot this fall of a widely distributed annual magazine, and selling pix from 4x6" black and white to 3'x4' three section canvas prints.
But I am reminded of what a very good professional once told me when I said I really did not sell that much, but people sure enjoy getting pictures I take locally and from our travels when I put them out on Picasa to an over 100 person Photo List. And see my exhibits.
He asked, "Do your photographs bring enjoyment to others" and I answered yes.
He said, "People's appreciation is a far greater reward than monetary."
I have never forgotten that.
So enjoy, and if you - and presumably like I - bring enjoyment to yourself and others; just consider it a blessing. I do.
Lauren
I have been taking pictures all my life but due to a course of events including a hiking fall, complete shoulder re-construction and no more golf mandate in 2008-2009, I got more interested oin my photography.
In 2009 our photo club had a spot at a local arts and crafts show and people were to sell their pictures. I told them I was not going to participate as I did not sell my pictures. They insisted I have some of my work on display so I agreed to do that - no pricing. I printed up some 5x7" pix and put them in $3-5 WalMart frames.
A lady in the next booth INSISTED she had to buy one of them. Harranged me the whole weekend. I kept telling her I did not sell my work. She was like a dog on a bone, so finally at the end of the weekend I told her, "OK, $35" and she was writing a check before you knew it.
I looked at her and the others there and said, "I guess I just became professional".
To me that is when you cross over between hobbyist amateur and professional - when you sell something.
I guess I have been blessed with some talent as now things are going quite well along those lines - invitations to do one person gallery exhibits, being published in newspaper and magazines including a cover shot this fall of a widely distributed annual magazine, and selling pix from 4x6" black and white to 3'x4' three section canvas prints.
But I am reminded of what a very good professional once told me when I said I really did not sell that much, but people sure enjoy getting pictures I take locally and from our travels when I put them out on Picasa to an over 100 person Photo List. And see my exhibits.
He asked, "Do your photographs bring enjoyment to others" and I answered yes.
He said, "People's appreciation is a far greater reward than monetary."
I have never forgotten that.
So enjoy, and if you - and presumably like I - bring enjoyment to yourself and others; just consider it a blessing. I do.
Lauren
