I guess I've been thinking a lot lately of going back in to the business world. I just miss the thrill of possibility and all the people I've dealt with in the past. Profits can be hard to come by as a vendor, but I think that my new techniques along with some other innovative ideas just might be the thing to get me started.
Back in 2004 I started taking pictures at the Gordons Well sand dunes in southern California, and selling prints to friends and people I met in the dunes. By the Fall of 2005 I started setting up a booth in the vendor area and selling pictures on holiday weekends to the drag racers and dune enthusiasts. The pictures were also posted on Sandpix.com in galleries that were easy to navigate, and customers could order prints. There was some success, but by the spring of 2007 it was obvious that some changes would have to be made before continuing.
With the ever changing technology of digital photography more people are taking their own pictures and sharing those images with friends and family more easily than ever before. Attaching pictures to e-mails or posting to sites like flickr, photobucket, myspace and others has become commonplace. Having the option of purchasing prints or downloading an image for personal use might be exactly what some customers want and Sandpix is ready to take on that challenge. Look for more stories, photos and video to be posted here on a regular basis, with a new level of interaction. Click on the photo at the bottom of this post to see small size versions that you can e-mail to friends and post on the web or larger sizes suitable for downloading and printing. Sharing memories has never been more fun or simple. Please leave a comment or question here or on one of the pictures in my flickr photo stream and let me know what you think. More to come shortly...
