> I'm no longer attempting to sell photographs, I have > had no success, nobody > wants to buy. Hi, I remember reading on your attempts to sell photography since some time now. So far, I didn't have anything to offer. I have been struggling also. In Mexico people is very reluctant to spending money in photography (in anything!) and I don't have another income. However, may I suggest as I was forced to do, to find "output venues" for your photography. I am currently trying (among others) to make screen savers and electronic jigsaw puzzles. My clients are never in a hurry to advertise so I work out a "project" first. It sometimes works, sometimes does not. For example, scenery photos like the ones I have seen from you could be sold to restaurants or other tourist-related businesses so they hand out 3.5 floppy disks to their visitors as a token (disk here costs about 20 cents, plus a custom label or printed in-house). Offer them a project of 10 photos as collectable puzzles. Some jigsaw software is $25 US. Deep sea ports also move a lot of money, but their graphic material is usually too technically-oriented (workers, cargo - their interest in proving or for insurance...). They will surely appreciate a new vision on themselves, something even poetic, since they are not used to it. Make a screensaver (several software programs available) and they will be amazed. Your client might be a customs agent or a ship broker. There are many other "outputs" - greeting cards, postcards, framed and mated prints for galleries, etc... I once sold two times an enlargement of a ship to the agent representing it and also to the pilot who drove it into the port. One of the frames had a clock mounted in it. More decorative than "art", but heck. The captain would have loved it also... In the end, the words of a friend have been resounding in my head for years: "maybe you are missing the market". Look at people's walls - listen to what they say. Next, you just refocus your talent to fit their wants. HTH ===== _____________________ www.alberto-tirado.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
