Tony Corbell and Rob Hull released a blog earlier this week that suggested highlighting your work on a calendar. It seemed like a great idea, and within a couple of days someone asked me if I would be selling a 2016 calendar.
So I built one featuring 12 sunrises and sunsets, which people can buy for $20. You can see a few sample pictures here.
Sunrises and sunsets are by far the most popular pictures I publish. While individual architecture or landscape photos can perform as well, nothing does as well regularly as a colorful sky. The sunrises and sunsets were curated against the month of the year, each one depicting a season.
I have also created a new gallery of monochrome photos on my portfolio site. Every month I feature a new series on the portfolio, and this month it made sense to publish monochrome (black & white for the most part) as they are arguably my most artistic works.
The above photo of the Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC is a great example. I do like working in a singular color because it forces the eye to see structure and light in the purest sense.
All of these monochrome photos are available for sale here. In fact, if folks ever wanted to buy a photo of mine and don’t know how, the photo portfolio is the place to do it. Any photo can be uploaded and printed on demand, and shipped right to your house.
Many people over the past year have asked me to create a photo book. I have researched cost and to self publish a print collection of 50-100 photos would cost buyers $75, give or take. That photo book needs to be awesome to justify the cost.
The good news is I definitely have enough pictures to do this now. It’s a matter of curation; which ones and how to present them. I am currently looking at how to do it via Blurb, and think I may release a book on landscapes before Black Friday.
