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I’m not very prolific with this.  I shoot a lot, don’t get me wrong, but only images that fit the mold so to speak get put up for sale.  When one makes the cut then I go through and take down an image or two as well.  It’s always been my goal to keep my port small and clean, and under 100.  I’ve even removed images that have sold just because they no longer suit me.  lol guess this means Im no business woman.  I don’t know if I can successfully turn off that compulsive part of me, and start posting and selling more.  But, I was thinking of blogging and posting more there.  That way, if someone interested happens along they could inquire, and i can still keep my port clean?  Each shoot I do ends up being at least a series of three, but I make myself only choose one Image.  lol I only have one series of photos up, and it’s been driving me nuts that they are all still out there.  I guess I can blame my hard ass photography teacher for that one.  His voice always rings “only your best!  Only your very best!”.

I also struggle with using my name.  I started out with “one good eye” (I thought i was so clever at the time because i had just suddenly lost my vision in one eye and discovered I was going to go blind.  now it makes me embarrassed that i ever did that) and an ugly eye watermark went on all the photos online. Oh no!!   I’m in the process of replacing all of them with watermark free images.  I’m doing it slowly so I can re share older images and get them looked at again, but as I have done this , it also makes me reexamine my older images and a lot of them aren’t making the cut for the second go around.  lol I’m my own worst enemy.I posted a lot more as “one good eye”, I believe now, it was a way for me to hide.

in person, I do much better, and I can easily see myself at art shows and local businesses selling my photos without issue, but I struggle with online, and I can’t push out here in the real world effectively without having a good solid online presence as well.  A business card without online contact information is useless, and I get that.  But, it’s so confusing.  Smugmug POD I could use my preferred finisher, but I don’t like the site, WordPress and self fulfill?  (I do eventually want to print myself.  thats a way in the future dream though) Fine art?  Or the other millions of hosting and pod sites?  I know some artists who juggle all of them, but that makes me feel like I would be competing with myself.  Too many choices.  It’s daunting.  And I never want my lookers and buyers to feel that way.

oh goodness, I rambled.  Looks like I might be in need of some photography therapy lol