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Please check out my Flickr site on the right for more of my work.

Will be blogging more soon--working on some new items.

I'm Back!!

I am back from my retreat! And I'm ready to continue with Etsy!!

My Season's Ended a Long Time Ago

Hey! Guess what?!

I sold an item today! and I am negotiating shipping for another right now!


In the mean time, please check out my treasury on Etsy that I made today!



PARIS Treasury

I have a sale

Please check my shop for my exciting sale!!

Oh, my god.

I think this is my favorite and absolute most beautiful picture I have taken.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please!

Notice

Please tell your friends and family about my shop.

I would really appreciate it!!

I finally did it.

For the past ten years of my life (elementary school, middle school and high school) I have struggled with a social problem I that has been haunting me--bullies.

Now I am leaving my school. My new beginning is a school for the arts in New York State where I will dig deeper into my love for photography and performing arts.

So on Wednesday, I finally got to tell everyone what they have done, and I stood up for myself with no regrets and no drift. I feel so free now, and I feel as if a weight has been lifted off my back that I carried for so many years. I seriously felt as if I were flying and I felt light as a feather.

I could not be happier.

Conley.

New "comp" for my buyers + New Item (kinda)

What you see above is the thank you card that will be shipped with your photograph when you buy from me. I will also send this out to my previous buyers. As you can see, it features one of my prints taken in England of the Lion statue at the Tudor's palace (see blog entry below) and on the inside it contains my contact information.

If you would like to have notecards printed with a blank inside, please contact me personally as I am not selling them on Etsy because I have to have them printed by someone else and it takes longer. The policies are as follows for the notecards:

Notecards come five to a set with envelopes.

Please allow 5-7 business days for shipping.

PayPal is the ONLY payment method accepted for this transaction--meaning no money orders and no Western Union. I want to keep your financial safety in mind and mine as well.

Lastly, notecards can come in the style of all my photos.

I would also like you to keep in mind that I am going to be gone the WHOLE month of June for a holistic retreat in California. I will not be near a computer, telephone or anything that makes noise other than a bird and nature like things, and sadly I cannot take my camera with me. So this means that if you purchase anything during this time period, it will not be shipped until early-mid July.

I wonder

Right now I am watching my Tivo'ed episode of Samantha Brown's Passport to Europe on Travel Channel. This one is on Venice, Italy. I went there once back in middle school with my family. I really enjoyed it but I do not think I was old enough to appreciate the history and the beautiful architecture. I took pictures on a disposible camera, but I never got it developed. However, I do have pictures that I took of pictures we had taken on a 35 mm point and shoot that I found the other day and I would like to share a couple of them with you.

Mix

In the midst of some shipping problems with the recent shipping rate change, I have been unable to attend to my shop lately.

However, today I resolved those (and I must thank the very patient etsy user Made in Lowell) and I have added some new items to my shop.



It is ten dollars and it was taken in Paris, France in the Saint Germain de Pres area. Enjoy!

Traveling to Paris

Back in Feburary of this year, I went to Paris with my mother to go antique shopping. Paris is one of my two absolute favorite cities in the entire world, next to Manhattan. This was my third time in Paris, once with my Dad, and once with a group of student travelers.

I had just begun taking pictures in the Summer of 2006 when I first went to Paris, and thought that if I could make the resolution low on the photos that the memory card would hold more pictures. Yes, I did take some great pictures, but they wouldn't look their best on an 8x10 print, so I only have them on 5x7 prints.

My second time in Paris, my photography was flourishing as I had been to New York and had experience in Central Park for a day as well on the streets. We had more opportunities as a student group for photos, especially being a small group of students. On that trip I took the Jacques Goes Boating print, the From the Arc print, the I Never Met A Rose Print, and finally the Musee du Louvre Print. You can find links to these all below.

My third and most recent time in Paris was in Feburary. My mother owns an Antique shop here in Birmingham and she travels to France often to buy from the antique flea markets there (such as Marche de Paul Bert). We also had leisure time to spend here where I spent my spare time taking some great photos. The ones in my Etsy shop from here are I Wonder Who Lives Here and Eiffel. Here I experimented with different lighting styles, and perspectives--especially when photographing the Eiffel Tower because you can only get a full shot of it from below.

From the Arc
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5942837

I Wonder Who Lives Here
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5942800

I Never Met a Rose
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5859872

Jacques Goes Boating
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5554908

Musee du Louvre
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5542975

I am so happy

To have found this photo I took at a certain castle in England. It is where the Tudors lived.

I hope you all enjoy this!

It's $10.00

I have added...

"From the Arc"
"I Wonder Who Lives Here"

I have added two new items to my shop today

Both are $10.00

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5942837

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5942800

Story Behind a Photo

Once upon a time, I was on a magnificent road trip style Spring Break in Los Angeles, California. You know Los Angeles isn't Los Angeles without the palm trees, correct? Well I was at my beautiful hotel in Beverly Hills running around amongst the bungalows snapping photos like a maniac. I took this photo with the camera against the bottom of the tree looking up. However, I did not realize that it would turn out as well as it did.

You never realize a photo's full potential until you see it enlarged on a computer. It's like when I went to the Grand Canyon. I took so many pictures and thought they were going to be these fantastic pictures--when I printed them out, they looked puny.

So, I guess the same thing happened here, but in a good way.

The moral of the story is that you should take as many pictures as your roll of film or memory card will hold, because you never know what might come out.

Important Announcement

I will be out of contact for a personal retreat for the entire month of June. If you order something during the month of June, or at the tail end of May, you most likely will not receive it until very early July.

However on Monday, expect to see new photos in store.


All my best
Oie

Shop Policies and Other Stuff

Since this is my first post in my blog following my journey as a photographer I will state my Etsy.com shop policies and information in this post.

General Policies

• First and Foremost, I have the right to use my photos for personal use.
• No Returns or Refunds
• All of my work is original, signed, and titled.
• I have the right to reprint my photos for future sales.

Shipping Policies

• I ship within the US, Canada, France, the UK, and Italy
• I ship Priority USPS in the US and FedEx otherwise.
• My photos come in a cardboard envelope.
• Payment must be received before shipping.
• I take three days at most to ship my items.
  

Payment

• I accept PayPal, Personal Check and Money Orders. Paypal is Preferred.
• Extra prints require seperate PayPal transactions for those costs.

Other

• My Photos are printed on Fujifilm Gallery Quality Photo paper
• I use a Canon Photo Printer to Print
• Most of my photos are travel photography. I always indicate where they were taken.
• I price my photos according to location and importance and value to myself
• Photos can come in 5x7 and other sizes at an extra $2.00 for each print. This would take a separate PayPal transaction if you are using PayPal.