20 April 2007
Last week, as I was walking to work through the park, I noticed that the circus had come to town, and for the few minutes it took me to walk past, I entertained myself with imaginings of "what if".
What if I'd known about my freakish bendiness when I was a kid - could i actually have run away and joined the circus, and now be travelling the country as a contortioinst.
What if I was a lion tamer, with a fancy outfit and some rather big cats for company.
What if I was a juggler, a clown, a trapeze artist.
What if I travelled the country, never staying in any place more than a few days, my entire life contained within the structure of a small caravan or motorhome.
What if, what if, what if.
If I'm honest, the cirus life is not for me - I need more stability than that, and there's there'd be no room in a caravan for my yarn stash, so I'll have to get my circus kicks elsewhere, and I'll be doing that through Lucky Oliver, a new online stock photography site.
I met the Lucky Oliver folks on their stand at SXSW, mostly because they had a pool full of rubber duckies and I wanted to know why (the trials of having a rubber duckie fixation). I had a good chat with them and they seemed like a cool bunch of people, so I figured I'd see about joining, and using their site as a way to make a bit of money back from some of the many thousands of photos I've taken over the last few years.
It took me a while to get round to it, but last week I submitted my first three photos, and as of yesterday, was accepted as a Carny, and over the coming weeks and months will be updating my Lucky Oliver portfolio, which will hopefully simplify things a lot, and save me agonising over how much to charge when people ask permission to use an image of mine on their site - particularly because their prices start at a mere $1 (or less than 50p at the moment if you're a Brit), which is very reasonable for a web or blog sized image.
I'm unlikely to get rich by doing this, but every little helps.
Full disclosure: I'd decided to join/blog about them before I asked if I could have one of their rather natty t-shirts, so the fact that they told me I'd have to promise to blog about them to get one of their t-shirts wasn't bribery of any kind.
I would just like to say that i saw some pictures that you took on a different website and I really admire your work. You have the same basic style that I have, and it's nice to see that. I'm still in high school, however I still bring my camera with me pretty much everywhere finding things to take pictures of.
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