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Michele, so happy for you!!

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Ok – thought it sounded weird or a bit demeaning with the phrasing ‘portrait photography is out’.

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What does this really mean..? I retweeted the portrait above and this guy retweeted this:

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Sean McConnery
@SeanMPhoto
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Portrait Photography is out! paper.li/SeanMPhoto/136… Stories via @msmarmite32 @MallorcaImages
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Feeling confused now.

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Congratulations!

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I’m in
@mallorcaimages

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Congratulations Michele/Shelma

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I thought of sending them all an invoice… 5.-

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Thanks for tips.

I may start missing them, yes…:-)

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Great to hear the positive cheers. Perhaps a project like this has its own life. It breathes in and it must be given time to breathe out.

I would like to thank all of you in person who helped with my first confused steps towards building the website, when it was all a creative mess in my head, and it seemed completely impossible.

God, I did it!

At least it is up and running and although it needs to be improved in more than one way, I feel proud and happy about it. It is working!

One thing that I can see happening after just spending a couple of days working on SEO that I suddenly get several visits per day from google searches. Something is happening. Spring is in the air:-)

Thanks to you all – sorry, but I am so new I don’t remember who helped me with what.

And to Michele – you are doing a great job with Facebook and Twitter. My intention is to get going more in that area as well and retweet back.

Have a happy weekend all.

/Christina

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Thanks for great tips everyone. I am not even half done with getting my images green . but getting there.

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Looks so good in here!!

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Hey

I spoke to a food blogger who complained that she didn’t want to go to the big agencies to get an expensive subscription when she needed just a few images now and then, and said it was very hard finding ways. Hopefully one of you with food images got a sale or two because I gave her the link to Symbiostock. The only food I have is a beer and a bowl of olives…

After that I have been thinking of the WHY of Symbiostock and began writing some text to use on my own website below.
From a marketing perspective, I think the main thing needs to be how we HELP the buyers.
I am sure it needs polishing though – it’s a draft.

Symbiostock Fair Trade Network

Symbiostock was founded in 2013 as a kind of Fair Trade stock image association, for the purpose of making it easier for image buyers to get an image on the spot without having to pay for extended subscription plans, and of course also for photographers to cut the middleman and keep 100% of the price for an image, compared to between 20-60% with the large agencies, as they spiral towards zero in price.

What is special with Symbiostock is that independent member photographers, illustrators and artists license royalty-free and rights managed images directly from their own websites to the customer. We think it can be a win-win situation for both buyers and sellers in certain situations.

There are almost 235 000 images to this date at Symbiostock and more are added each day. Here is a link to the search engine: http://www.symbiostock.info. Click on the link, find an image, click and go directly to the artist’s site, and buy a license.

How’s that?
I should of course mention that I built the text on what I found on Cascoly’s website.

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Aha… Where did I get that from (that you’re using Dragonfly)
Looks very clean and simple.
I am hearing a voice saying I should get rid of the red, BUT, I felt it gave me some energy there for a while.
Thanks for the tip

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Thanks so very much for getting rid of the annoying red extra text links.

Not sure I need color tweak for the background:-)

Another big issue is with the slideshow that doesn’t work with this ‘new blank page’ that I called 1025.

However, in the end I may want what he is having, since I know he used the same update and Dragonfly:
http://stock.tdahlphotography.com

…but only if I can get there without loading too much work on everyone else, which is hard not to.

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Hi and thank you!
I felt that I destroyed something that worked, but didn’t know what… and couldn’t change back. I like the Unity theme design though but it depends on the amount of tweaks…

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