Officially back on schedule.
Day 169 – Something Yellow
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 176 – What You Do
Day 177 – Frozen
Day 178 – Electric
Day 179 – Stripes
Day 180 – Hands
Day 181 – Passion
Day 182 – Sun
This week’s Personal Photo Project is a blatant attempt at commerce. Good old fashioned in-your-face-capitalism.
I’ve been talking to Barb Henning of Everlastings about selling high quality Photography 139 products in her store for several years now, but I have always been unable to pull the trigger. However, I’ve turned over a new leaf and have decided to invest some money in “product” and we’ll see where that gets me.
Starting tomorrow (at least I’m 98% sure) a person can go to Everlastings Flowers & Gifts in beautiful downtown Ogden, Iowa and purchase a couple different products from Photography 139.
The first line of products:
This is not a completely original idea. This idea is both stolen from and an homage to my Dad’s line of Slice of Life postcards. Which incidentally will be incorporated into this line of postcards as well. The picture of the #1385 is my Dad’s picture.
The current pricing structure is thus:
1 Postcard = $.75
3 Postcards = $2.00
5 Postcards = $3.00
Series #1 of the Photography 139 line of postcards consists of 5 different images. My hope is that every 3-4 months, I will release a new series and 5 different postcards. The subject matter will mostly consist of flowers or local interest. Look for Series #2 to be released around February or March.
Thanks to all my Postcard Beta Testers:
Jen, Derrick, and Evie Gorshe
Sara and Shawn
Russell Kennerly
Andree Jauhari
Aunt Linda
Becky Perkovich
Dawn Krause
The Fausts
The Kewers
Robert Henning
The second line of products:
The second product line is a calendar consisting of high quality Photography 139 flower images. The first run of these is extremely limited, so the price structure is a little higher than I would like, but there is a chance that a second run of calendars will be printed and the price might go down slightly. No promises though.
Calendar Price Structure:
1 Calendar = $15.00
But what about the future? I’m also looking into releasing a line of holiday cards. Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Mother’s Day. It is somewhat dependent on how the first two lines of high quality products fare in the marketplace. I would consider it highly doubtful that there will be Christmas cards available for this Christmas, but stranger things have happened.
To repeat, these high quality products will be available at Everlasting Flowers & Gifts starting tomorrow.
Everlastings Info:
223 W. Walnut St.
Ogden, IA 50212
Store Hours: M-F 9:30 am to 5 pm; Sat. 9:30 am to noon
Website: http://www.everlastingsbybarb.com/
All major credit cards accepted
These products may come to other venues in the future, but Barb definitely gets to be the launching point for this commercial endeavor.
Yes, you can buy products straight from me, but I don’t accept credit cards at this time. If you need something shipped to you, there would be a shipping and handling fee.
You can find out that info by writing me directly at: bennett@photography139.com
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will either involve trains or mums. We’ll see.
I think this is an interesting collection of images:
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 106 – Drink
Day 107 – Where You Slept
Day 108 – Something Handmade
Day 109 – Strategy
Day 110 – The View from Your Window
Day 111 – Open Spaces
Day 112 – Happened this Weekend
This week’s Personal Photo Project was somewhat of a disaster. Tragically my giant mirror broke during the setup of the photo project.
However, we continued on. I learned a lot from this first attempt and might just revisit this idea again in the future.
The rest of the Infinevie Series:
Next week’s Personal Photo Project will probably involve mums.
Since most of the random pictures I’ve taken are of the “can’t-quite-publish-yet” variety, I thought I would publish some of my favorite Instagram pictures of the last few months.
Since I got a new phone and have been able to get back on Instagram.
Of course, if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen all of these pictures before.
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen most of these pictures before.
If we are friends on Facebook, you’ve seen a few of these pictures before.
What my Birthday Cake will Look Like Next Year
Sara and Shawn – Pufferbilly Days Parade
Boone First United Methodist Church
Recently donated to the Boone First United Methodist Church Youth Group
Tenderloining without my Partner – Legal Limit
Instagram may have replaced Twitter as my favorite social media outlet. Not as useful as Twitter, but probably more fun. Plus I may have an addiction to the Photo Map feature. Even though what that feature tells me is that I need to road trip in the worst possible way.
I think this is also a pretty interesting collection.
This week’s themes:
Day 78 – A Glimpse
Day 79 – Opposites
Day 80 – A Battle
Day 81 – Made You Smile Today
Day 82 – Letters
Day 83 – A Mask
Day 84 – Creature of the Night
I’ll be interested to see where this week’s themes take me…
I felt mostly uninspired by the themes of the previous 7 days, but once I got to editing, I’m pretty pleased with the results:
The themes for the next 7 days:
Day 71 – Fall Colors
Day 72 – Red
Day 73 – Emotion
Day 74 – Something Closeup
Day 75 – On the Table
Day 76 – Landscape
Day 77 – Make You Laugh