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www.cathleentarawhiti.co.nz Featured in Sold! / Thank you. People/Portraiture HDR Photography Macro Photography Architecture Collaborations Skyscapes Animals/Birds/Insects Street Art Street Photography Everyday Objects Seascapes/Rivers/All Water Summer Photography Odd/Unusual Flowers/Plants/Trees Landscapes New Zealand Abstract Humour Black and White Photography Out of Order / Sold as a poster to a water company /
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Photographers - What are you paying for? (Part One)
by Jo O'Brien^Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called l…
Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called life and may not apply in any way to your current situation. At worst, it’s my opinion, at best it’s some ideas for you to think about. If you need real proper advice, go see your solicitor. I’m of the opinion that photography should make me money, not cost me money. So far, I have been successful is making more from a photograph than it took me to create. Here is my list of not so secret tips and advice on covering your arse and saving your cash. When To Pay There are times where spending your hard earned money is the right choice. For example to obtain goods or services you can not find for less (or free) elsewhere. Or when you have done all the maths yourself and you feel you are buying into a good deal. But there are also some pit falls to watch out for. Art Direction, Ideas and Intellectual Property My rule of thumb, if I am paying to shoot, I should have full rights to everything I take. No ifs buts or maybes about it. If you shoot a commercial, the art direction team put together a shoot and then hire a photographer to take photos of what they and the crew have created. They pay for lighting design, they pay the models, they pay the hair stylist, they pay the guy who makes the coffees- and they pay the photographer. Some businesses operate under a similar model but suck money out of photographers in the process. As part of a ‘workshop’ or ‘event’, several photographers rock up with their cameras and take photos of a scene. Often they have little or no control of the setup, can’t communicate properly with the models and will walk out of it with similar images to everyone else who attended! In the worst cases they have restricted rights regarding how they use their images. So is essence, they have paid for something that out in the real world, would be making them money. Sorry if it sounds confusing, the concept completely baffles me. When you are shooting someone else’s ideas and have restricted publishing rights or have little influence over the set up, posing, lighting or set design, (in my opinion) you should be getting paid by them. After all, you are doing them a favor by taking images of their creative work. Classes or Tuition Wanting to improve you skills and knowledge is a great thing. And there are numerous classes, mentors and workshops available for you to choose from. If you are going to pay to attend these, make sure you are getting what you pay for. Before you hand over any cash there are a few details that you should have to help make your decision. Class Size: The more people attending, the cheaper the class should be. If there is a practical component, I usually wont accept a class bigger than 10-12 / Location & Time: no point signing up for an ‘on location’ workshop only to find it is out of your way. Also as a safety issue, you should always be able to tell a trusted person exactly where and when you will be shooting. / The Teacher: You should be able to find and contact the person facilitating the class to verify their experience and ask questions. It not always convenient for a facilitator to take calls from a whole class, but you should be able to send them an email and get a reply without going through a middle man. / Contracts: Ask if you will need to sign any contracts and insist upon receiving them before paying. / What do you get: do you get class notes to take home? Exactly what does the course entail? What can you hope to know and have learned at the end of the course? Contracts These are a great way to waste your money. They also happen to be very important. First and foremost contracts exists to make people money or stop people from making money. So before signing anything, read it a few times and make sure you are aware of what your actions are costing you. If you need to get images approved before sale or publication, you could be agreeing to never publishing or selling any images taken if none are ‘approved.’ It is completely reasonable to request changes to a contract or write your own and offer it instead. Don’t sign away potential income! You should always be able to take a contract away and show it to other people for advice before signing it, and especially before paying for anything. If you are not given this opportunity, my advice is to avoid it with a ten foot pole. And then there are the bazillion poorly written contracts that mean very little or nothing at all. It’s actually quite funny to me sometimes, what people will put on paper. Useful Links Australian Competition & Consumer Commission / Scam Watch Photographers – What are you paying for (part 2).
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/ Tessalated Coast by Peter Martin Ok, so here’s my suggestion (feel free to ignore it) Last year I went to a wedding in Lorne on the Great Ocean Road and saw how well they accommodated a larger group. Seeing as how there are a few RedBubblers who live over that way who missed out on our Melbourne Meet Ups, I thought it might be nice to go visit. Great Ocean Road Cottages in Lorne is not only wonderfully cheap, (works out to about $50 per head or they have a backpackers on site if your want cheaper) but the people who run it are lovely and very helpful. You can make use of the electric kitchens to self cater or go to the cafes and pubs down the road. The cottages are a 2 minute walk from an IGA or 10 minute walk to the nearest pub. (Yes, they have Red Wine) / Erskine Falls Reborn by Michael Eyssens The accommodation is a series of small cottages with a queen bed downstairs and 2-3 single beds upstairs. I’d suggest that we organise ourselves into small groups of 3-5 and book a cottage for each group as they are put together. The cottages are all close enough together that it does not matter which one you are in however they are holding a few close together for us until I get back to them in a couple of days. Staying in Lorne will put us within a short drive of the otways and several lovely looking great ocean road sites if we want artistic inspiration. The cottages, while designed to sleep 4-5, are suitable to entertain a group of people and say, sprawl out a game of twister or something. I’ve called them to ensure that they have enough room for us on the night of Sat October 27th and all is good. My thinking is that we could head over early Saturday, spend a day doing bush things and a day doing beach things. What do you think? P.S – Sorry Jess for ambushing this idea!! / Lorne Pier,Victoria by Joe Mortelliti
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My Best Redbubble Articles, Suggestions and Tutorials
by Stephen MitchellYou’ve probably gone through a few of my articles, but did you know I’ve been writing since the first day of membership upon Redbubble?...
You’ve probably gone through a few of my articles, but did you know I’ve been writing since the first day of membership upon Redbubble? Feel free to read through my more-interesting and knowledge-filled articles, many that will help you travel the Redbubble path with ease and understanding. If you have any comments, questions, or further information, please comment on the respective article. MY JOURNAL Running Sheet for Exhibitions [26.April.2008] / Linking to Group Rules [ 12.Apr.2008 ] / My Own Private Bubble [ 10.Mar.2008 ] / Which Group Has My Art? [ 16.Feb.2008 ] / Making a Profit Because of Redbubble [ 31.Dec.2007 ] / Redbubble vs That Other Gallery [ 31.Dec.2007 ] / Linking Photographs [ 14.Dec.2007 ] / What Makes You Think Your Art is Good Enough? [ 15.Sep.2007 ] / RedBubble Breeds Winners [ 31.Aug.2007 ] / Idea for RB Administration [ 11.Aug.2007 ] / Advantage of Tagging your Uploads [ 01.Aug.2007 ] / Artist-Linkage and Size-Disclaimer [ 19.Jul.2007 ] / [!] Idea: Change Default to Least Expensive [ 17.Jul.2007 ] / Add This To Your Cart [ 16.Jun.2007 ] / Suggestion to RB Marketing and Code Teams [ 28.May.2007 ] MY WRITING Advantage of Choosing RedBubble / ASCII Characters in your RedBubble Journal / But Wait, There Is SO Much More / Consent for Photography Not Required in Australia / Coding your RedBubble Journal / DPI Determines Resolution, Not Quality / Tip for Answering Comments / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? v.2 / Naming Your Art / Online Purchasing : Safe or Scary? ON FORUMS Tips and Tricks I’m always writing new articles about photography, entrepreneurialism, small-business, web-development, and about other stuff I find on the “WWW” . Expect something new, exciting and enlightening added here soon…
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Strange things happen in dark places…
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A copy of the email I sent today
by Jo O'BrienHello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Mel…
Hello to Ears Wide Open! After reading a lot of discussion in the forums I would like to present my proposal to you. I am based in Melbourne and am very seriously committed to renting a stall at a couple of markets to sell RedBubble Artists’ work and promote the site. I currently manage an art gallery that sells prints and originals on commission and have a strong understanding of what is involved to make this idea work. Rather than just throwing it up as a suggestion, I have included a suggested plan so that you have something tangible to discuss. I think the market stall idea has a lot of merit and could potentially grow into quite a lucrative endevour as well as being a huge promotional tool. It is a way of tapping into Melbourne’s art culture which is heavily concentrated in street stalls, markets, garage sales and small independent galleries. The benefits include increased membership on the site through being visible to Melbourne artists at their predominant place of work and increased sales through order taking on site at the stalls and through increased online patronage. Anyway, on to the plan! BubbleMarket Plan Interested artists will complete a form through the RedBubble website to register their interest in participating and agree to the consignment and payment terms. I will agree to sell their work on consignment only. All care (in fact heaps of care) but no responsibility will be taken for artists work at the stall or in transit. In the interests of keeping it simple and reasonable for a 1-2 person stall, I’d suggest a standard mark up that all submitted work will be sold at. We would have to keep prices competitive with “market” prices. I would add a small surcharge to all sales to cover my time and labor to be negotiated. Artists’ biographies, catalogues or portfolios are more than welcome if artists will post them to me. I would like to promote the individuals along with their art. If you can give me a catalogue with order codes/numbers and a cordless EFTPOS machine (even an old Click Clack one) I will take orders on behalf of RedBubble.com. If taking orders to be posted I will need all relevant info regarding postage costs to add to the order price. If I am using a Click Clack machine I will not use it for ‘on the day’ sales where the artwork is taken. Stolen cards will be declined long after the customer has gone and you are trying to deposit into the RedBubble bank account. Artists would order their own work at the base price. It would be really awesome if we could arrange to have it all end up at RedBubble Fitzroy and I’d pick it up in one go. On the day I’ll keep a meticulous list of sales and stock so I can track who is owed what money and generally account for the whereabouts of all stock. I do a fair bit of bookkeeping for our three galleries and am competent in tracking dollars and cents! At the end of the day or on the next business day I would return all unsold stock to RedBubble along with the cash. It would be great if you could pay people via the usual method. Unsold stock could be posted back to artists or kept for future markets. Expenses Summary : / -Renting the stall and perhaps a display table / -Posting unsold artworks back to artists ( I will make neat piles for you) / -Appropriate display equipment such as clear, hard backed, display files/slips to prevent damage / -Carbon Invoice book for recording sales and providing receipts / -Promotional material –lots please / -Labor to organise artwork prior to market day / -Labor to organise payments and postage after market day / -Labor associated with creating and printing a catalogue I’d be asking RedBubble Admin to help out with: / -Letting me collect artwork from Fitzroy in one go instead of 50 people posting stuff to me / -Pay artists and deposit cash (I will provide sales lists) / -Supply a click-clack or other portable Credit Card/EFT machine for catalogue orders / -Provide postage price information for catalogue orders. Contingency Planning: / -Select a market with under cover areas because artwork and rain do not mix and bad or windy weather would equal cancelling / -Have 1-2 other people available on the day in case I get hit by a bus, my car is stolen etc. / -Ensuring all artwork available for sale complies with copyright laws I have tried to cover all the main bases here but have probably missed a few things that will be blaringly obvious to others. Perhaps lets discuss it properly because I am really prepared to back this idea and make it happen with a bit of your support. BubbleMarket could become a regular event and a HUGE promotional tool for RedBubble and all the great artists we are so lucky to have on here. Do not hesitate to give me a call in or outside of business hours to discuss this idea further. Jo O’Brien / jo.obrien@hotmail.com
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Two horses having a chat… I need a title for this shot, have a go please and give me some inspiration! Groupings / - Flowers / - Wildlife / - Christmas & Other Cards / - Clothing
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For anyone who was wondering, this was what Hong Kong looked like yesterday, however I cannot guarantee it will look like this tomorrow.
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I only completed his hair with pencil,I finished his cloak in Photoshop. This man’s nose is so fun to draw! Check out all of my Snape art here
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any Suggestions? :)
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Ganesh gets the false idol treatment this time round in this the third installment. Previous ‘no frills’ false idols include: The Pope Buddha detail:
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Advantage of Choosing RedBubble
by Stephen MitchellThere are lots of sites that enable you to create a gallery and win awards. But not many allow you to sell that work, nor make it so easy…
It’s a slick and professional site. When anyone wants to view my work – I send them to RedBubble , not any other photo-gallery!
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The List - Toolbox Suggestions
by Peter MarinApologies firstly for the delay in getting this list up. I promised it last weekend, no excuses…..........I’m just damn lazy lately lol…
Apologies firstly for the delay in getting this list up. I promised it last weekend, no excuses…..........I’m just damn lazy lately lol. Me thinks some handy things in that list I hadn’t thought of. Thanks to everyone that put in their 2cents. Bandaids / Needle and thread…….a role of black and one white. / Dress makers tape. / Bobby-pins. / Scissors. / Vaseline. / 30+ sun-cream. / Body fresheners. / Soap. / Tissues. / Safety pins. / Hair pins, razor. / Shoe brush. / Hair brush. / Hair spray. / Bottled water. / Handi-wipes. / A dozen pairs of sunglasses from the dollar shop (matching frames of course). / Duct tape. / Clothes pins (wooden onespainted white or black – make good weights for fly-away’s). / Face powder in 3 tints (light, med, dark – helps avoid those shiny face spots). / Thermos of perculated coffee. / My happy face. / Soda water – remove stains on dress. / Spray bottle of water – keep flowers fresh, and also doubles as fake sweat. / Pair of nylons (pantyhose) and a makeup mirror. / A can of Windex for the wedding car. / Blutac and white and ivory fabric/tulle, a couple of foam blocks, champagne flutes, small bottle of champagne. / Talcum powder – apparently it absorbs any oil marks on gown, suits or clothing. / Two fake gold rings (?). Thanks again Pete
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Any suggestions for a great Compact Camera?
by Howard WiddisonDoes anyone have any suggestions for a great Compact Camera that i could buy for under £200? I have a few in mind but there is nothing li…
Does anyone have any suggestions for a great Compact Camera that i could buy for under £200? I have a few in mind but there is nothing like hearing what is good and bad from the people that actually use them. / My thoughts are the Canon Ixus 90 IS / Panasonic Lumix FX500 / Canon Powershot…not sure which one yet Basically i want a good all rounder that fits in my pocket and takes great pics preferably with a 28mm lens for taking great landscapes….something i can take anywhere. i would prefer a x 10 zoom but not if it sacrifices picture quality Thanks in Advance
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by GlobalphotosHi One and All Am off on the 14th April back to the USA for my 23rd trip, so much to see and so little time and all that !!! Am off…
Hi One and All Am off on the 14th April back to the USA for my 23rd trip, so much to see and so little time and all that !!! Am off to San Francisco, then Yosemite. Flying to Las Vegas staying at the Paris Hotel for a while before picking up my Chev Trailblazer and heading off. My plans are up in the air from there, this is basically where I want to go, - Zion/Bryce Canyon / - Arches National Park / Monument Valley / Lake Powell / - Antelope Canyon out of Paige / - Grand Canyon Yes, there is a lot on this list and I can’t possibly see it all but I live so far away am going to see as much as I can / Hopefully having time to visit Death Valley and Red Rock Canyon nearer to Vegas before returning the car and flying to San Francisco. Being an Aussie I am used to driving long distances in areas where there isn’t much in between so it doesn’t worry me. I have GPS… yay !! / I have ten full days for this part ….which I know is not a huge amount of time but as mentioned am willing to drive anywhere and any distance to see these areas. Would really appreciate it if you could offer me any advice on what to see, where to go any routes which are best and what weather conditions I may encounter…....so I don’t need 5 suitcases LOL. Or things to avoid :) Thank you so much, am excited !! / Hugss Varinia
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Tell us what you really think
by communityIf you’re after tough but fair feedback on your art, photos, writing or other creative output, then pay a visit to the For Critique...
If you’re after tough but fair feedback on your art, photos, writing or other creative output, then pay a visit to the For Critique forum. Most of RedBubble operates on the basic principle of “if you like something, say so. if you don’t, keep quiet”. But the For Critique forum is different. It’s a great spot to ask for criticism, feedback, and specific advice on how to improve your skills. Post a small image or link through to your writing, design or artwork …and write a few words about any specific things you’d like people to consider when critiquing your work. Or, if you know a thing or two about a particular area, then why not give others the benefit of your considered opinion? No doubt others have done the same for you in the past.
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Parisian Adventures?
by Debbie BlackWell, it’s confirmed Paris won’t know what’s hit it on 20th October – for five wonderful nights I’ll be soaking up all things Parisian! W…
Well, it’s confirmed Paris won’t know what’s hit it on 20th October – for five wonderful nights I’ll be soaking up all things Parisian! Woohoo! Any suggestions on places to go, things to see, where to eat etc etc are really appreciated! :) (Oh and no suggesting the obvious please – e.g. eiffel tower etc etc!!!!) Ooooh my new camera will really enjoy this little adventure…..
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Advantage of Tagging your Uploads
by Stephen MitchellThe biggest advantage of adding ‘tags’ or ‘tagging’ your uploads to RedBubble is that you can group together certain types of photogr…
The biggest advantage of adding ‘tags’ or ‘tagging’ your uploads to RedBubble is that you can group together certain types of photographs. / ie. Landscape, Water Colour, Cartoons, Etc. To show you how this helps me, for the past three hours (between watching some television) I have been adding specific tags to my images. Consequently, I now have these ‘Series’ of related images. 1. Flowering Bulbs / 2. Kangaroo Island, April 2007 / 3. Kangaroo Island, April 2007 / 4. FlickrSA / 5. Landscape / 6. Architecture, Abstract / 7. Farm Machinery / 8. Beach, Kangaroo Island As you can see, tagging is important to get noticed. So here are a few ways to tag your work: 1. Don’t put in commas ( , )—just leave a space between each word. RB put the comma’s in automatically. 2. If you feel comfortable with worldwide recognition, Add your name. Either as separate words or conjoined. To join them, use an underscore and no spaces. / ie. Stephen_Mitchell / Otherwise, add your avatar. 2. The style of the image: / ie. black_and_white pens pencil isograph penmanship / ... and whatever else best describes the style of your work. 3. Location. / There are a lot of people on RB (and around the Internet) who’d probably love to discover these places or know of them. So add words that tell us where you were—the country, the town, even the railway station, etc. 4. Use descriptors. / Words that describe your emotions, the weather, the colour, the texture of the objects in the photograph. All these tags help your work to get noticed. / There maybe someone looking for a rainy afternoon on a railway station drawn with isograph pens ;) or wanting a computer wallpaper that’s vibrant red with bubbles. So those words are what they will search on, either here or on Google. Happy tagging!
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Idea: Change Default to Least Expensive
by Stephen MitchellSuggestion of the day to RB Admin. If any other exhibitors disagree or agree with my idea, please comment here! *I’d prefer the defaul…
Suggestion of the day to RB Admin. If any other exhibitors disagree or agree with my idea, please comment here! I’d prefer the default when opening the ‘purchase cart’ to be on the cards (the least expensive item) rather than framed options. This might seem mad, but there are two reasons: 1. We prefer more sales, rather than none at all. Some people may baulk at the prices of these framed images – even though they are fair and reasonable!! So let them see the cards first. (Some people may prefer to purchase 50x$5 cards than purchase a $250 framed image.) / / 2. I had someone say, “Hang on, this says ‘From $3’ – but I don’t see anything under a $100.” They simply didn’t see the choices of frames, canvas, etc. They arrived at the first screen and figured that was all there was.
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What Makes You Think Your Art is Good Enough?
by Stephen MitchellWhat makes you think your art is good enough to upload to RedBubble? 1 Gut instinct? / This is the best way to know if your art, ...
What makes you think your art is good enough to upload to RedBubble? 1 Gut instinct? / This is the best way to know if your art, writing, or photography is good. For photographers, we simply know when the shot matches what we were trying to achieve. For writers, it’s when we write from the heart. For artists, and I mean people who manipulate binary-pixels as much as I mean painters etc, I imagine you know when your art has reached its point where it cannot be modified any further without ruining it. That’s right, ruining the final result. / Gut instinct tells you when you have just reached that pinnacle and achieved the art you imagined in the first place or saw through the view-finder. 2 Did someone in your family like the shot? / Trust me, I know from bad experience that relying on the opinion of family (to tell me what makes a GREAT shot) is never a good idea. As much as they believe in your artwork, they cannot see through your eyes. / I only upload a few distinctly better shots to RedBubble out of every few hundred. I might shoot between twenty and a hundred photographs from the one location, but I know almost immediately if it was a good shot or not. On occasion I only have to take one shot to get THAT shot, the one that gets shown to you, my friends and my family. What makes you think your art is good enough to have printed? 1. You received 1,000 ‘Oh, Nice!’ Comments ? / Nope, this is not a good enough reason. Your art needs to be an extension of who you are. Despite what you see here on RedBubble, your art should not be a popularity contest, nor a multitude of ‘nice’ comments. Much as I enjoy getting a few nice words about my work, I’ve recently learned that unless the person actually says something constructive, unique and interesting about the actual photograph … the comment may just be a stock answer to everything they see here. NOTE: OK, so sometimes it can be difficult to put into words what you like about some one else’s art, but at least say something unique. Yes, my photography of flowers have DOF, POV, macro-detail, lots of colour and are ‘hot’, ‘cool’, ‘wow’, and ‘whippitycrack’. Now tell me WHY you like it, WHAT it is that makes it good and HOW many you are going to purchase! :D 2. Only you can know if your art is worth selling on RedBubble. / Do you think someone would purchase it as a card? Or are you just showing off an image that you want others to consider before you commit to it? Ok, so we all do that occasionally. I’m not saying it’s wrong to upload the incomplete and unfinished, but this is RedBubble. It’s not just a community, forum and friend-making location: It’s an online print-shop. 3. Don’t be concerned with anyone’s opinion before presentation. / Upload those few shots you really believe capture what you were attempting. If you really believe the art is good, show it to the RedBubble world the whole internet. Because everyone online and offline is now going to see you and your art. RedBubble is a name, not a fortified location. Our comments, words, suggestions, responses, queries and ‘drool’ will be carbon copied across the planet and archived on the “WWW” Today I shot 5GIG of photographs in 5 hours. / I had a day in the Adelaide CBD, revisiting previous locations, visiting a few new places and discovering new things at each location that I did not see the first time! This added up to around 1,000 photographs. / ... I’ll be the first to admit that less than 200 are any good. / ... Less than 60 are very good. / ... I’ve uploaded only TWO of them to RedBubble. I might add a few more. / ... SEVEN have been loaded to my flickr gallery . All are getting lots of traffic, with very few comments. Just the way I like it. Each of those photographs got some pixel-manipulation. Yes, I do, when necessary. Each of those photographs were one of a several exactly the same … but I decided that one would serve the purpose I was looking for. / I didn’t ask anyone on RedBubble or Flickr if they would like to see it : I made that decision while perusing them on my 500GIG HD. A lot were shot purely because I like architecture, but many were shot because I figured they’d look good as a card or framed image. One of them is a test-image, to see the response/traffic rate. See if you can pick it. 4. Would you delete or replace a photograph if enough people said they didn’t like it? / Seeing as how so many of us rely on the comments of others to fulfill our online life, IF someone was to suggest a fault, change, modification or complete make-over of your art work, would you? I believe I might change an image. I have certainly changed my opinion on pixel-manipulation! I know I’d delete an image, but only from the RedBubble-database. I’ve done that several times. Where’s your thoughts on this? You’ll notice I rarely make comments on other people’s art. There is a LOT of great work on RedBubble. I just don’t have the time to tell you. Anyhow, you know your work is good. Or you would never have taken the time to put it on RedBubble …. right?
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