gessman wrote:
I had a look at your images on Flickr and I like what you're doing a lot and while I'm in no moral authoritative position to anything beyond my opinion, I think you have something good in what you're doing overall and I would just encourage you to keep going in the direction you're headed and do more because in so doing you will broaden your vision and more fully develop what you want to say with your photography. While this craft is a largely solitary endeavor, I would suggest that you begin to put your work out there, if you haven't, where you can submit it to public opinion as in some online competition sites like https://www.viewbug.com/ and see how your work is accepted. I'll leave it to you to "google" up others. If you haven't, go to https://www.500px.com/ and browse through looking at a lot of different photographers and their work, a group that, with exceptions, are arguably many of the elite advapix and viewbug. Tnced photographers online, perhaps among the most trendy and openly competitive group.
Don't hesitate to look at some of the people in 500pix as potential mentors and contact them if you find some you admire and seek out some objective opinions and possibly some pointers. All they can say is no and you might find yourself in a position to wave at them in passing later on, something that's always a morale booster. You might even think of putting up a site on 500pix and see if you can generate some sales. I think that most people online who want to buy photographic art frequent 500pix. They have a great program. They do some marketing, take orders, produce prints, deliver, collect, take a cut, and pay you, taking a huge workload off your back, freeing you to produce more product. At the very least, by opening your inventory to the public you will begin to get a feel for how it's being accepted.
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"Thank You" for your thoughts and the suggestions you made. I appreciate your detailed responses. Thanks for taking your time to respond.
You are the second person to recommend 500pix and viewbug. I've already looked at 500pix and plan to sign up tonight. Viewbug is totally new to me. I am going to look into it tooight.
Are you on either of those sites. If you are let me know how I find you.
I am going to put you on my Buddy List if that is OK with you. I'd like to make an effort to keep up with what you are posting.
Thanks again. Brian