Not sure how many people have heard of the site Red Bubble?
It's a place you can upload your
artwork (pictures, photography, sketches, designs, writing) and display it to the community there, and also offer it up for sale as greeting cards, prints, etc.
I blogged about it this morning.
I'd heard of it but hadn't looked into it until recently, when I was put onto it by someone who already has an account there.
I created an account last Thursday and
uploaded a few of my favourite recent images.
As I said in my blog, I'd always had some friends or work colleagues who said to me "Why aren't you selling your stuff?", but I just wasn't inclined to sit at a market stall all day on Saturday, hoping to pick up some sales from tourist trade but also having to worry about keeping stock, printing the right images, framing, etc.
Red Bubble takes all that pain away. You just upload the hi-res images, and they take care of the order process, printing, framing, postage etc, and you take a cut of the final sale price.
There's a
base price for a particular item at a particular size, and you decide the markup percentage. For example, if they charge $100 for a large framed print, you can put a markup of, for example, 30%, and the retail price is then $130. When you make a sale, you get the $30.
It's a pretty cool site and has some amazing photography and artwork there. Loads of illustrations and digital artwork stuff too if that's your cup of tea.
Since setting up the account on Thursday, I've now made 4 sales (3 of the
conjunction image and one of the
milky way galaxy).
The publicity through APOD has no doubt helped a little, but it's certainly a great start and it's awesome to think that my images have moved someone enough to actually spend money and find a place on their wall to hang it.
It's not something that's going to make me rich, and I might not make a sale for the next 2 years, but it's a good avenue if you're proud of your work and want to reach a broader/different audience.
i have recently been asking a few guys around here if they would sell some of their pics 
i have seen some great work floating around these forums there is quite a few pics that i would love to have on my walls (would be better if they were my own, but thats not going to happen any time soon 
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