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Finished With Brussels — On To France!

 

And don’t I just WISH that the header for today’s post meant that we were in Europe at present instead of hot and humid Australia. (groan!) At least I am travelling in spirit right now…

I’ve finished uploading images from our too-short 3 days in Brussels last year before we came back to Australia — and I am ‘into’ France now. Should be done with Paris in the next 24 hours.

Since we lived in France for 2 years-plus and we travelled back and forth to several areas other than our residential areas of Normandy and the Midi-Pyrenees, there will be new images from all over the place. Can’t WAIT to get back at the end of the year and fill up the image bank even more.

 

Boulangerie window displaying bread for sale in Paris, France

Boulangerie window displaying bread for sale in Paris, France

 

To streamline things a bit, I have taken off about half of the pricing on my drop-down price lists. If book publishers or magazines or advertising agencies want a quotation for the use of one of my images in a run of tens of thousands, they can contact me directly for a personalised quote. This will make it much easier for the everyday consumer to just choose images and have them printed onto canvas or paper or clothing. Good, eh?

Watch for a new category on the site in the next day or so. It will be called something like ALL ART PRINTS and it will contain the images that are most appropriate for making fine-art prints to hang on the wall or note cards and stationary or tote bags and aprons. Just let the possibilities sink in!

Until then, keep checking back at the link below for the ever-increasing portfolio.

Enjoy!

 

ZENFOLIO PORTFOLIO for Deborah Harmes Photography|A Wanderful Life

 

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The NEW Website for Photo Sales is LIVE!!!

I have to say, this past month or so has been both thrilling and exhausting. And it’s a whole other kind of learning curve to be creating a new website that is not WordPress based.

 

Expresso in the Cafe Horta in Brussels, Belgium.

Expresso in the Cafe Horta in Brussels, Belgium.


 

For quite a few years, people have been asking me where they could buy prints of my work. Due to all of the moving around we have done, especially since 2010, I simply didn’t have the time to set up an entire new site with a Shopping Cart and then deal with all of the banking aspects and photo printing.

For a decade now, I’ve also had a steady trickle of digital sales to publishing houses — producers of everything from textbooks to travel guides to retail non-fiction. I’ve also been selling images through advertising agencies that are used on packaging and which have been in magazines and brochures.

Working with various photographic agencies in Europe, the UK, and New York has been convenient, but those agencies take a hefty chunk percentage-wise. Now I have the ability to deal directly with publishing clients because there will be a new one-stop-shopping site for digital files as well as retail goods.

You’ll be seeing a lot of tweaking in the week ahead — both here and over on the new Zenfolio site — as I link things back and forth. Then over the coming weeks, you will see lots of new images appearing on the photo site as I continue to wade through thousands, seriously thousands of images on my hard drive.

There has never been one specific genre that I stuck to — so you’ll notice that my images contain everything from art and architecture to travel and tourism to human interest to ‘just because’ sort of shots. There are about 400 images on there currently with many, MANY more to come.

So for now — tah-dah! Just click on this link below and have a look around.

Enjoy!

Deborah Harmes Photography | A Wanderful Life

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Nothing like a challenge — or TEN!

You know I’ve given myself a challenge with the novel writing deadlines — but now I am adding to that.

There has been a “Coming Soon” over in the right side column where it says PHOTOS TO PURCHASE for the last couple of years? In the spirit of better late than never, I am putting up an online store that will go live in a couple of weeks. You’ll be able to purchase everything from prints of your favourite pictures or canvas wraps that are ready to hang on the wall, mugs, t-shirts, aprons, and lots more. And since I am outsourcing all of this, you can use your credit card on that site and I won’t have the stress-wrangling of dealing with a shopping cart installation on this site. Whew!

The new photo site will have images broken down into galleries from each of the 12 countries we’ve travelled to over the last 5 years, so it will be easy to work your way through the premium images from all of the tens of thousands that I have shot. Not everything will be on the new photo site — just the best artistic or stock-type images. But if you have a particular image from a past story that is not included, just drop me an email and I will create a custom link for you.

I continue to find funny images like this one below that I never got around to editing. So look forward to the new launch quite soon!

 

Jack wants some lunch, too!

Jack wants some lunch, too!


 

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Haven’t Disappeared Altogether — REALLY!

It has been ever so long since I updated the site and there are a lot of reasons for that. Short explanation…

1. Some health issues (now completely resolved!)
2. Buying a house
3. Moving and unpacking (and that is still an in-process situation)
4. Renovating

Additional delaying factors…
1. Trying to decide whether to stay in Australia or go straight back to Europe
2. Busy with the stock photography (surprisingly, on the upswing!) and uploading
3. Writing not one but TWO books.
4. Being a total nut-case and signing up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and trying to produce 50,000 words of a rough draft novel in 1 month. Did it — in 15 days with not enough sleep. But the novel isn’t done and will probably end up being about 70,000 words. So yes, I still have the rest of November to slog away.

 

NaNoWriMoCertificate

 

Got oddly Mother Earth-ish (small doses!) and decided to try doing a smidge of gardening after over decade away from that and have been remarkably successful thus far.
 

Freshly planted garden bed.

Freshly planted garden bed.


 

Seriously? It has been so long since I did one of these posts that I had to go back and refresh my memory on the html coding!

Plan to TRY and do better with keeping up on this site once again. Lots of things are percolating now that our lives have settled down and there are some big plans afoot.

Also — am rebuilding my portfolio with a new agency. Plan to upload weekly (fingers crossed!) or more often examples so you can see what’s up for sale as stock. As soon as I get several more dozen images up, I will post a link. In the meantime, here’s an example of what I will have on there for one time rights.

 

Sydney Harbour Bridge on a stormy day.

Sydney Harbour Bridge on a stormy day.


 

More soon!

 

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Scaling Up and Going Grander

 

I’m scaling up size wise and going grander with the number of photos included. As a result, the next book will be a bigger and more expensive book. Print books can still be produced quite inexpensively but that is certainly NOT the case for colour photo print books unfortunately!

The book that I am currently editing is evolving into a much larger project than anticipated and I’ve made a few key decisions. As a result, it may or may not be ready for publication prior to Christmas. I’m hoping to be done by the end of this week, but if it ends up being a better product by waiting until after Christmas — then January it is!

The topic this time is France. I had planned to do three regional books on the North of France, the Midi-Pyrenees, and Paris. Now they’re going to all go into ONE LARGE book that has clearly defined sections. And I’ll be offering the print versions in 2 sizes — the small square size that I have used for the previous 3 books and a larger one (shape to be determined). There will of course be ebook formats for various types of tablets/e-readers/computers.

I recently became aware that I had over 18,000 images of France alone in my hard drive. Only a tiny percentage of them will make it into one of my books, but many will instead be placed into more travel articles or lodged with whatever agency I actually do continue to work with. And at some point in the future I plan to offer direct sales of prints. One step at a time though…

Interesting dilemma, eh? Far better to have too much to work with than too little. And for now, here’s one pic that didn’t go into the book. Enjoy!

 

Walking through the medieval walled city portion of Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France.

Walking through the medieval walled city portion of Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France.


 

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A Wistful Farewell To Normandy

Quick photo for you today whilst I am editing another book. This is a shot of Mark by the seaside in St. Martin de Brehal — saying a wistful goodbye to Normandy in April before heading to Paris and Brussels the following day for a short holiday.

We lived for long periods of time in 2011 and 2012 in both Normandy and the Midi-Pyrenees and we continue to love both places for very different reasons.

There was always something heart-tugging about the energy of Normandy, by the seaside especially, and our last few months there were hard to document photographically. We both still miss it — in my case, every single day.

 

Saying goodbye to the Normandy seaside

Saying goodbye to the Normandy seaside


 

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So After All Of That Silence…

I’m in the middle of editing a 4th new book and I’m alternating between wired (and no, I am not drinking too much coffee) and Supreme Space Cadet.

Note to self #1 — multi-tasking is NOT always an option! (when feeling as scatty as a cat, trying to do 3 things at once is doomed to failure)

Note to self #2 — make certain that you click on SAVE DRAFT and not allow your finger to slide up to Hootsuite because you aren’t paying adequate attention whilst writing this very blog post. (sigh!)

Note to self #3 — pay attention when Darling Husband suggests that you NOT leave sharp knives in the bottom of the sink full of dishes. Ouch! However, the good news is that the kitchen is kinda-sorta clean again. (grumble-grumble!)

Seriously, I must be feeling better because my output this week work-wise has been beyond wonderful. I will be announcing a 3rd book this week (this time a bit more travel/architectural) and there is another one being edited and facts-checked today. Just call me the 7-days-a-week gal!

ALSO, I plan to address the e-book issue of what to do if you do NOT have an iPad since my ebook is only online in the Apple iPad format. I’ll be setting up a page for you to purchase the book in a PDF version which will work on ANY tablet and also work as an ebook on ANY computer. Cool, eh?

All for now — back to work. But here’s a wee teaser of what’s coming up!

 

"To Trains" sign in an Art Deco station built in the 1930s

“To Trains” sign in an Art Deco station built in the 1930s


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