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My first exclusive sale     posted on 4th of september, 2007

After shooting professionally for thirty years and billing as much as $7,500 for a single photo, it's fairly amusing that I'm excited about netting $1.20 for this photo. However, the days of big budget, large format, highly designed, heavily art-directed, intricately styled & expensively propped, commercial advertising photography are behind me.

I still shoot full-time for a living, but now it's in-house at a publishing company. The photographs that mean the most to me are along the lines of that feather in the sand; "found" scenes and objects that I happen across when I chance to have a camera in hand...

This image was found last year while on vacation with my family. I look at this shot and can still feel the sun and smell the breeze that formed the waves and eddies around the seagull feather. Now, for a couple bucks, someone else out there can grab a piece of that day...

I don't know as though I'll be getting all introspective and misty over every sale, but I have a feeling I'll enjoy this sort of thing for some time to come! Looking at the row of binders that holds some 15,000 slides and negatives, I can see there's a lot of work ahead of me. Scanning, editing, keywording, submitting, and even some fresh shooting will keep me occupied for quite a while.

I'd better go get started...
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