Welcome to the second day of this special daily post week!

 

Today I finally received this print of a picture I took earlier this year in February. Yes, that is the Rainbow Bridge under the rain; I had this print sent to me first in september but it got damaged during transport and I had to wait for the fourth one (second was damaged too, third one lost) to get it right. As you see, it is quite large, and an acrylic glass is protecting the print: the result is really fantastic.

 

Which leads me to today’s topic: Flickr, ordering prints and magazines.

 

I realized how my flickr account was disorganized and lacking interest for someone looking at my photostream for the first time. Sets actually reflect more events than common themes or similarities between pictures, and the collections do not add more sense either to my portfolio. One would say it lacks a purpose, and that purpose should be to demonstrate my style and the kind of work I am familiar with. Fine tuning my stream thus ended up on my todo-list, along with the next uploads I would like to do on behance.net or on other portfolio websites (namely seen.by, printedart.com and 500px.com)

 

One stream that is tidy enough is Shane’s. And he’s been selling prints online recently, which is something I had been considering for some time while not really being motivated enough to do. This could be worth checking out before the upcoming exhibits. So far I tried to experiment with a few services, focusing on getting either cheap prints on unusual materials (the above being one of those tests) or quick manufacturing delays (Négatif+ in Paris is actually not bad at it, and not that expensive either). One thing that’s left for me to find is a way to get large prints, well, very large prints, that could be glued on a wall, just like a billboard. This would prove handy for the projects I am working on now…

 

Talking of printing, I discovered a service that prints on demand any of the offered magazines and ship them to your address; being such a magazine freak I instantly feared I had find a nasty way to spend money and get ruined in a couple of clicks. I have yet to browse all the categories but I have already ordered a couple of photography titles I hope will be visually interesting. I wonder if this sells actually…

 

Talk to you tomorrow!