These particular originals began as 3" x 4" glass slides that I acquired several years ago about 1000. They are black and white and I convert them to digital files in their original black and white, clean and/or restore them. I can make good prints of up to 20" x 14" although the originals are much smaller. The slides are from 1887 - 1923.
I market these (and other images) in two ways; when submitting digital files to agents who represent my work to publishers, I don't modify them beyond brightness/contrast and cropping. When I market on my own to the public, I can do whatever I like since they're for decorative, personal use rather than publication.
Here's an example of how I market them.
Buyers can by just a print (with a choice of papers), prints on canvas, aluminum, cell phone cases, greeting cards, throw pillows prints can be framed, matted with many choices of colors and styles.
Talk about "a labor of love," between this, fly fishing, photography and the baseball cards I have 'em. Best of all, I have a great family life married for over 40 years, a daughter, two grandkids
I am blessed my friend.
NOTE: Click on the framed picture to get a better idea of how I market these.
The slides were given to me! An estate was being closed and no one had any use for the slides since they were, in their day, projected by a device called the "Magic Lantern," a projector whose light source was a kerosene lamp!
The slides were "rescued" as they were headed for a dumpster!
To this day. I look at yard sales for any kinds of slides but I rarely find any; people die and their relatives save the slide trays and toss the slides same thing with prints they sit in a drawer for thirty years and end up shredded or trashed.
Send me your tired, your poor, your wretched refuse your old damned pictures for heaven's sake!
But alas the trash man cometh and the pictures goeth
For every minute, the future is becoming the past. --T. Heyerdahl
Everyone is forced to turn the page brother.
But alas the trash man cometh and the pictures goeth --A. Macarthur
But the true meaning is....
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. --Daniel Boone
Our history is but what we create from those of the past.
Stayin' busy.
Making pictures and continuing to inventory many thousands of baseball cards.
MM,
These particular originals began as 3" x 4" glass slides that I acquired several years ago about 1000. They are black and white and I convert them to digital files in their original black and white, clean and/or restore them. I can make good prints of up to 20" x 14" although the originals are much smaller. The slides are from 1887 - 1923.
I market these (and other images) in two ways; when submitting digital files to agents who represent my work to publishers, I don't modify them beyond brightness/contrast and cropping. When I market on my own to the public, I can do whatever I like since they're for decorative, personal use rather than publication.
Here's an example of how I market them.
Buyers can by just a print (with a choice of papers), prints on canvas, aluminum, cell phone cases, greeting cards, throw pillows prints can be framed, matted with many choices of colors and styles.
Talk about "a labor of love," between this, fly fishing, photography and the baseball cards I have 'em. Best of all, I have a great family life married for over 40 years, a daughter, two grandkids
I am blessed my friend.
NOTE: Click on the framed picture to get a better idea of how I market these.
The slides were given to me! An estate was being closed and no one had any use for the slides since they were, in their day, projected by a device called the "Magic Lantern," a projector whose light source was a kerosene lamp!
The slides were "rescued" as they were headed for a dumpster!
To this day. I look at yard sales for any kinds of slides but I rarely find any; people die and their relatives save the slide trays and toss the slides same thing with prints they sit in a drawer for thirty years and end up shredded or trashed.
Send me your tired, your poor, your wretched refuse your old damned pictures for heaven's sake!
But alas the trash man cometh and the pictures goeth
You did your magic again!! My favorite is the first one.....such true words.
Everyone is forced to turn the page brother.
But the true meaning is....
Our history is but what we create from those of the past.
NM.