b!X Photo Special Orders Now Available
As something of a follow-up to instituting a new sales model for prints of my photography, The One True b!X | Photos now includes an additional new component: special orders.
While only a couple hundred photos are made available directly via my sales site, there are thousands more in my Flickr photostream. Beginning today, prints of the vast majority of those can be had via special order.
At launch, special orders are available only to U.S. customers, and the only print size available is 8×12. These limitations will lossen up once I make sure any kinks in the process are worked out.
So, if you’ve ever seen anything in my Flickr photostream but were disappointed to find it wasn’t available on my sales site, just follow the special order instructions and make yourself happy at last.
b!X Photos Now Sell For Base Price
As of tonight, all of the prints for sale at The One True b!X | Photos are available at their rounded (to the nearest $0.25) base price. This is as close to free prints of my photography as you can get. In most typical cases, you now will pay more for shipping than for the print itself.
So how will I make any money off my photography? There is now an additional product for “sale”: the financial gift and donation, available atop each of the site’s seven galleries.
Going forward, when you purchase a print you also are invited to add a donation at whatever level works best for you, from a wide range of provided options. Due to the nature of the service I use, these donations technically are provided in the form of digital downloads, specifically of a “Proud Supporter of The One True b!X | Photos” graphic, which you can post online to show off your support, or simply delete. It’s up to you.
This is an experiment. I’ve had nearly a full year of selling prints of my photography under a more traditional model, and now it’s time to try something new. Those of you following me on Twitter might correctly be guessing that the experiment in no small part is inspired by Marian Call, who sells recordings and plays her music live via a similar model.
I have no earthly idea which print sales model will be more successful. I have no idea if the model works in this context at all. Certainly I don’t sell so many prints that I’m putting anything even close to a steady flow of income at risk. This simply is an experiment I can afford to conduct, and the premise intrigues me too much not to do so.
All photographs which have been for sale as prints on the site remain for sale, including some new ones you might have missed. Nothing has been removed. I’ve tried to make the new model as clear as possible in various parts of the site. If anything is confusing, or if some part of the new process isn’t working as intended, please let me know.
Addendum: See the comments below for some discussion of the old model versus the new model, based upon the first order under the latter.
Addendum: Under this “optional donation” model, buyers also could opt for barter or some other alternative form of donation, such as gift cards. Just use the email link on the sales site to make an offer.
Addendum: I can now take special orders of photos that aren’t on the sales site but exist in my Flickr photostream.
Connui Go!
I can only assume that there are many names for it, that inevitable and cloudy confusion which descends in the wake of a major pop culture convention such as San Diego Comic-Con International, which ended a scant two weeks ago. Only one term comes close to summing it up: connui.
Part of overcoming connui, in my case, is the methodical culling of the thousands of photos taken over the course of the event, uploading the chosen few (even when some of them don’t quite satisfy me). This year, after what seems to have been my best experience at Comic-Con in my four years of attending, I’ll add something new, if somewhat cliche.
What follows (because I couldn’t reduce it to ten) are my twelve favorite things about this year’s con, in chronological order.
1. Arriving at the convention center area.
It seems kind of silly, but there’s a distinct and definite rush just upon arriving within view of the San Diego Convention Center, even if you’ve not yet stepped inside. In all likelihood, I have a shot similar to this from each of the past few years. The travel to San Diego complete, here’s where all the anticipation is about to begin paying off. Once you pick up your pass, anyway.
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Become A Patron, Get A Print
Several days ago, I engaged in some self-promotion in which I asked that, if in the past you’ve found my convention and panel photography valuable, you consider either donating directly to help defray the costs of this year’s trip to Comic-Con in San Diego, or indirectly supporting the trip by purchasing a photo and get 25% off with the “25junejuly” coupon code.
Here’s a new incentive to donate directly, in addition to the fact that I will send you your very own “I Am A False b!X” button: if you donate at least $25 to become, for lack of a better term for it, a patron of the convention photographic arts, when Comic-Con is over and I have this year’s photos uploaded (to go along with those from previous years), you will be able to receive a print of the photo of your choice from this year’s batch.
If you’ve seen my photo sales site, you know that I don’t sell convention photos. You might also know that I’ve taken a number of convention photos that would make nice prints. While there’s no way to know in advance just what I’ll end up with this year, this is a very rare opportunity to be able to obtain a convention photo print.
About My Best Photograph Of 2009
Taken at the May 26 protest against the California Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Proposition 8′s prohibition of marriage equality, held at Salmon Street Springs. The full photo set contains a total of twenty-four photos, including several others featuring this particular subject, but it was this one which The Progressive paid to use in their July 2009 issue.
Oddly, or perhaps not, marriage equality also was the subject of the coverage of which I am most proud from back in my Portland Communique days. Uninterested in marriage myself, but able to legally obtain one if I wanted to, the subject for some reason sparks some of my best work in any medium.
More generally, my best photographs — although I’m still judgmental enough to cringe any time I succumb to using “best” and “photograph” when discussing myself — tend to be those that capture moments, not objects, and certainly not (although there are apparent exceptions) subjects aware that they are being photographed.
Out of all my photography over the course of last year — of television panel events, high school plays, teabagging, comic book conventions, zoo animals, and even bicycle races — ultimately the visual happenstance of this shot comes first in capturing a moment not just from the event, nor just from that singular day, but from the necessary motion of history.
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