Digital Collage Squares - the way forward?

I've just realised that I didn't post an image of my latest Digital Collage Sheet which I've sold two of so far, it's the only one of the three which as sold so I thought it deserved a showing here.

Digital Collage Sheet of 2 x 2inch
Through the Viewfinder Images for Crafts,
Scrapbook or Jewellery Projects.

I've set up a page for making a Digital Collage Sheet for scrabble pendents as they still seem popular and I've seen a shop where little pieces of painting are used just like that and they look fantastic and they are the shop owners own original work so she/he obviously has an unlimited supply of base material and they are selling like hot cakes in scrabble size and others. So I thought I'd borrow the idea as inspiration and try chopping little abstract pieces of texture from my photos. Easy but seriously time consuming and with the prospect of the resulting PDF being absolutely massive. I'll need to be in the right mood to do that, but I think that it could be quite a pleasant job really. I really like the idea of doing the work once (actually rather long and drawn out work with lots of looking through the archives, selecting, cropping, scaling and resizing) and then selling lots with no further effort.

Our attempts to get out to the local funfair were scuppered last night by the typical British Bank Holiday Weather, so we'll try again tonight. I've been wanting to take photos at night at a fair for ages and it's so close to home that it's only my sloth which has been postponing the outing. But I have it in my sights now and I'd like to give my fabulous new tripod head a nice trip too.

The wedding pictures are now up in their gallery, I struggled with the prices and the sizes to sell, I hope it's not too confusing for the folk who end up there and that they actually buy some as it took far more work than I had anticipated to get through it all. If Photobox had their act together and actually had their Reports page sorted, I'd be able to see which photos people are looking at which would be nice.

Anyway, I'm very glad that's done and all I need to do now for the happy couple is wait for their set of prints to arrive and then find a nice box in which to present the pictures to them on Wednesday, burn a disc and then my work is done!

Off to Manchester today for a potter through China Town up to the Northern Quarter for some chicken tikka at Al Faisal's and hopefully I'll get a few good urban snaps too.

Many shades of blue.

Here's a really pretty blue Treasury featuring my Brown on Blue print, I think that it fits in rather well.

Bluesy Mix, Chance of Peacock
by Isette

Isette has some great jewellery in her shop, it's bold and simple which I really like and I think that this ampersand necklace is just my sort of thing as I'm a bit of a typography fan:

Epershand Necklace $24

The Treasury has really nice mixture of items and I think that this pretty purse by La Vita Lola is my favourite item, it's not my usual taste, but it just appeals with it's jolly colours and dramatic print.

Blue and Yellow Peacock clutch - lined in gold silk $55

I went to the church and hotel where I'm shooting a wedding in a couple of weeks to do a recce yesterday, the church was closed, but I managed to get into the suite at the hotel and I think it should be okay. It's nicely decorated with a spacious light bar area and a lovely private garden with some steps which might do for the group pictures - there's only about 30 guests so not too many to herd around. The dining room's a little gloomy and they're not sitting down to eat until 6.30pm so I'm a little concerned about the light levels. I'll definitely need a tripod. But then they don't really want many pictures of the dining room and don't want me to shoot the meal or speeches, so fingers crossed that it will be a nice sunny day and a bright evening for long enough for me to get the place settings, cake etc....

I'm going back to the church today in a little bit with all my lenses to have a bit of a practice shoot.

It's a Bank Holiday Weekend....

And it's starting with a family wedding in Liverpool today. I'm one of the photographers which luckily gets me out of doing all of the formal shots and hovering around the altar, I've been asked to do hand held photojournalism type shots, to capture the moments which the Pro won't get as he'll be too busy wrangling grannies and babies. I was a bit freaked out about it, but after seeing the not so great wedding photos at an online gallery of two very smart friends which probably cost them a fortune, I'm a bit less concerned. I'm taking my lightweight zoom, my wide and my 50mm - actually all my lenses apart from my too heavy to carry zoom. I plan to put the photos on a Photobox gallery so that the guests can do a bit of shopping at their leisure and I'll hopefully make a bit of dosh. I can't quite work out how to get people to look at the gallery though, perhaps I'll make a link on my website and then sprinkle my business cards around the reception for people to pick up....

Anyway, enough about that.

My path through moss print is in a gorgeous Treasury this morning:

It Began With a Photo (Part 2)
by Indie Chick

Click here to see it onsite until it expires at 9.23 on Sunday