JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

My second order has come in!

This time, a customer from Florida purchased four prints.

One hopes this means that my momentum is building.

1. Cotton Gin Vent - "A large vent spouts from the wall of an old retired gin on display at the Mississippi Museum of Agriculture and Forestry in Jackson, Mississippi."
2. Control Panel in Red and Orange - "The aged and weathered control panel of a piece of antique farm machinery shows the effects of exposure at Cool Springs Park, Aurora, West Virginia."
3. Rusted and Broken - "An old Chevy, on display at the Mississippi Pecan Festival, in Richton, MS, shows the effects of age and hard use."
4. Jellies on Blue - "A group of marine jellyfish perform acrobatic feats while swimming in their display tank at the Tennessee State Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee."

Go to jaigieesephotoart.com for more info on these and the other images in my online collection.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Congratulations on the sales. Someone got some very nice photographs.

Dennis

Kissel vonKeister Loc: Georgia

Very nice indeed. You've taught me something: people like splashes of intense color, don't they? Pigment printer?

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

Yep. Epson SureColor P800. Does an incredible job.

mrpentaxk5ii

Congrat's on your sale. one thing about selling prints, you never know what some one will buy.

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

Not certain as to how I should take that last part ....

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Congratulations!

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

I wondered the same :) Interesting and different and I really like the pop of color! I'm not surprised that they sold.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice work.

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Interesting photos, JaiGieEse! Congratulations on your sales!

mrpentaxk5ii

I have sold prints at art & craft fairs, some of the photos I think will sell well don't and others that people buy, well I'm glad they sell. point is that it is some times hard to figure what people want and what they are willing to spend money on. The prints of what you have posted are done well but it is not some thing that I would buy.

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

I hear you. For some several years, I dabbled with one of those online micro-stock agencies. I went out and worked fairly hard to gather images that I thought would appeal to someone looking for stock images - i.e., images on which to build another design project, or perhaps to illustrate an article or book, or something along those lines. Most times, when I was out looking for stock imagery, I'd see something that I like, and I'd grab that. or else I'd shoot something on impulse, never thinking it might be of use other than for my own amusement.

After a few years, the company with which I'd originally contracted was bought by another, much larger company. Despite many and lengthy assurances that the company would not change, it, of course, morphed into something not even remotely like the original agency, After a time, I elected to sever my ties with this agency. At the ending of this relationship, my top-seller was a "grab-shot," an impulse shot. It had far and away outsold many of the images I'd specifically crafted to be what one thinks of as a stock photo. Go figger.

One person's trash is another person's treasure, I suppose ....

mrpentaxk5ii

I wish you all the best with selling your work, it's not easy. When I started out selling prints I had an idea of how much I would like per print, well you can only get what people are willing to pay.
A few years ago on my photo trip to Maine, the Pro-photographer spoke to us about this issue during lunch. The internet is full of people selling prints and that is why so many photographers lead photo tours and do work shops, there is more money to be made. I my self hoped to make a few dollars selling prints to off set the cost of what I do, I found out that by showing and selling my prints, my co-workers started asking me to photograph a few events, this worked out better for me than just selling prints.