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RE: Mountain Monday Goes Random
Thank you very much! I had someone who wanted to buy that photo, then they changed their mind when I was unable to remove the sign and sandbags. Pretty funny because there was one on the other side of the tracks as well, and I was disappointed that I hadn't captured both! :-)
Seriously? They were hung up over the sandbags? Sounds like an excuse to get out of the deal to me. People always seem to feel like they need some fault that makes backing out of stuff not really their choice.
Yes, this person - a friend of mine - wanted to buy some cards and asked me to send him a bunch of photos to choose from. After narrowing the choices down to three or four photos, I was asked to produce samples, which I did. I went to a printer and it cost me a little money to have the samples made. This went on and on until I asked why he wouldn't just go to my Fine Art America page, where cards could be ordered online. After that, the order never came through. That's what friends do I guess. This is a wealthy guy who is an art collector.
I’ve rarely had transactions with friends be financially satisfying. Unfortunately, friends, family and even acquaintances seem to feel we should gift them our hard work and those expensive supplies out of some kind of gratitude that they want our art.
Exactly. In fact, I believe that most people and even businesses now expect photography to be free. Check out my little story about the final photo in this post - you don't need to vote on it or anything, it's just on topic with what we're talking about here: https://steemit.com/sublimesunday/@keithboone/some-sublime-sunday-ships