Black and White Photography Blog, Vol. I

I’ve been using a piece of cardboard to cover the Epson 4800.

I splurged today ($105) for a Tumi Printer Cover. Nylon.

UPDATE: Cover arrived. Well made. Only thing is - if you’re using 220 ml cartridges, it doesn’t exactly fit. It can be used, and I’ll keep it, but it doesn’t fit properly over these larger cartridges.

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Basically, I have about as much work as I can handle these days. Not a lot of time or energy to shoot though I managed to do a roll at the 2nd avenue fair yesterday (right outside my door and nice overcast weather).

I remember sitting on a plane returning from the west coast (eight years ago) and telling the guy sitting next to me that I was going to sell photographs on the web. He was one of these guys in technology that knows everything. So his response was that I would never be able to make a go of it on my own and that I should hook up with a larger photography site and sell from there. My argument was that I’d be lost at a larger site, and that I wanted the site to reflect my own personality. You’ll never be able to get traffic, he insisted. Never.

Frankly - I figured he was probably right - but went ahead with my own site anyway. I’m 0ften impressed by people who are very certain about things - not that they have sway over me - but I wish that I could be as certain about things. But I go on my merry way - it all being a test of ideas against reality I suppose.

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Will let you know how the print I did at WCI (West Coast Imaging) on silver rag turns out when I get it back - hopefully tomorrow. Plan being to hold off on the 7800 for a while if I can get good results from WCI. Also thinking that I can re-use their packaging for the larger prints. Anyway - quite a bit of things in the hopper, including photographs to be used in a book on photography technique that should be out soon.

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This blog is fine as is - but I don’t think that it will ever be a good home page for a store. Not unless it’s a static page (which you can do with Wordpress) though at that point… Also fascinating is that I really couldn’t find a good plug-in for using paypal shopping cart with wordpress. It may be out there, but I haven’t found it. Yes, a couple of things are floating around but they aren’t very robust. I would think there’d be a good market for that and that it wouldn’t be all that difficult to write.