{"id":363,"date":"2018-08-10T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-08-10T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:26:11","slug":"i-sold-a-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2018\/08\/10\/i-sold-a-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"I Sold A Photo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rwaGrs\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rwaGrs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday I received an email from a woman whose email address I did not recognize.\u00a0 She wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m [at the exhibit] and interested in the canvas, Keanae Splash.\u00a0 How much is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added that she and her family were visiting from out of town, and &#8220;it&#8217;s beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I replied to her that I hadn&#8217;t posted prices on my photos as selling them wasn&#8217;t my primary intention.\u00a0 But that I was open to discussion.\u00a0 I calculated my cost of printing, mounting, shipping and taxes, added a percentage, and asked her if that was acceptable.\u00a0 It was.\u00a0 Deal done.\u00a0 I asked her to write a check to the church, or to just pay the folks at the coffee shop, which is what she did.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, above, is the piece she purchased.\u00a0 It was an 11&#8243; x 14&#8243; canvas wrap (sans copyright watermark).\u00a0 It was taken on my trip to Maui three years ago, and remains one of my favorites from that trip!<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing about photography is that I can make another.\u00a0 I ordered a replacement canvas from my original source, and it should be arriving today.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take it to the exhibit and hang it back in its original space, which right now is being occupied by another of my favorite shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/BYc5uw\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/BYc5uw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I confess, I never thought anyone would be interested in buying a photo.\u00a0 If someone likes one or more and compliments me on it, that&#8217;s an ego boost in itself.\u00a0 But to actually pay for one with the idea of hanging it somewhere?\u00a0 That&#8217;s just out of this world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I received an email from a woman whose email address I did not recognize.\u00a0 She wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m [at the exhibit] and interested in the canvas, Keanae Splash.\u00a0 How much is it?&#8221; She added that she and her family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2018\/08\/10\/i-sold-a-photo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}