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Buy A Birthday b!X Photo

In Photography, Sales on 14 October 2009 with Comments Off

After a heady comparison between SmugMug and Zenfolio, last week I moved my photography sales from a self-hosted solution to the latter service and a new domain. And so The One True b!X | Photos awaits your order.

While I lose the ability to check each and every order with my own eyes (the self-hosted solution used a local shop to produce the prints), prospective customers now have a much wider range of print sizes from which to choose. They also now have several framing options. In addition, orders to the UK and Europe now are supported as well, although for those customers fewer print sizes, and no framing options, are available.

This switch also means that photographs now are separated out into six categories: animals, buildings, landscapes, objects, people, and plant life. There are some surprises within each category, so be sure to explore, but hopefully this addresses a long-standing request to make it easier for customers to hone in on specific wants.

To celebrate the relaunch of my photography sales, as well as my upcoming birthday, the coupon code “bixphotosrelaunch” will save you $5 off any order until the end of the month.

Proper Types

In Photography, Sales on 10 October 2009 with Comments Off

Taken in April of 2008, during one of my only two photo excursions with members of a local Flickr group. The typewriter pictured was, and for all I know still is, part of the decor at Proper Eats in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland.

Despite the fair number of decent photographs I’ve taken on those two photo walks, my general dislike of large group activities, and my tendency to view myself unfavorably when surrounded by more knowledgeable photograpers, has kept me from going out on another. In fact, it’s been quite a long time even since I last added any photos to the group (or any group’s) Flickr pool.

That said, Proper Types has proven to be one of my best-selling photographs, so in terms both creative and commercial that last excursion certainly was not a waste of anyone’s time. Unsurprisingly, sales of Proper Types have tended to skew towards people for whom, in some fashion, writing is an (a)vocation.

Second in an occasional series highlighting photographs available as prints for purchase. Buy a Proper Types print.

Broken Circle

In Photography, Sales on 14 September 2009 with Comments Off

Taken close to one year ago on a family trip to Cape Cod to give my father’s ashes to the ocean. This particular excursion was an evening visit to the inland shore of the cape, west of Truro.

Broken Circle was taken about twenty minutes before sunset. At the moment of capture, it was meant simply as a photograph of one of the many birds which were passing, flying low to the water. The reflection which eventually gave the photograph its title I didn’t see until later, when reviewing the day’s take.

In many ways it is for me the emblematic photograph of the trip to disperse my father’s ashes back to the earth and waters which gave rise to them in the first place. Death is the part of the circle that breaks it.

First in an occasional series highlighting photographs available as prints for purchase. Buy a Broken Circle print.