YAY! New camera!
Okay, as you guys out in flist-land may or may not know, I've been into the amigurumi/crochet thing this year. I posted my first for-sale pattern (an Asian Dragon) on Valentine's Day, and hoped that its sales might make enough to cover the 6 $47US payments for a course I signed up for.
Well, not only did it do that, I also had enough to buy a new camera which I desperately needed. Yay! New camera = better pics = higher quality patterns & tutorials = hopefully more sales. Granted, now I'm back to where I started (broke), but that's all right. I did it once, I can do it again. ^-^
Then I thought: Hey, I've got this new digital camera, maybe I can try sending some new pics to the stock photo sites who basically told me where to go a few years back. So I sent one in. I go out, take more pics, learn more of the fancy things the camera can do, send in two more while I'm still waiting to hear back about the first one.
I didn't expect much from them; they rejected everything else I ever sent in. I hear back about the first one - surprise, surprise. Rejected. So I go 'Pfft! Screw you!' and sign up with another site. A couple of days later, I hear back about the last two pics.
Accepted.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. Really. And it also let part of their bullshit show, since the first pic I sent in was a close-up of an iris and it was rejected because "We already have a lot of this subject, sorry." What's so bullshit about that? One of the two accepted photos was also a close-up of an iris. *rolls eyes*
So anyways, I've been camera-happy the last few days and taking pictures of anything and everything.
Then I thought of that thing that goes around the LJs every now and again. You know the one, 'Ask me to take a picture of anything and I'll post it here...'
So here's your chance. Ask me to take a picture of anything (except me; there are no pictures of me on the internet as far as I know and I'd like to keep it that way) and I'll post it for you.
Any takers?
Well, not only did it do that, I also had enough to buy a new camera which I desperately needed. Yay! New camera = better pics = higher quality patterns & tutorials = hopefully more sales. Granted, now I'm back to where I started (broke), but that's all right. I did it once, I can do it again. ^-^
Then I thought: Hey, I've got this new digital camera, maybe I can try sending some new pics to the stock photo sites who basically told me where to go a few years back. So I sent one in. I go out, take more pics, learn more of the fancy things the camera can do, send in two more while I'm still waiting to hear back about the first one.
I didn't expect much from them; they rejected everything else I ever sent in. I hear back about the first one - surprise, surprise. Rejected. So I go 'Pfft! Screw you!' and sign up with another site. A couple of days later, I hear back about the last two pics.
Accepted.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. Really. And it also let part of their bullshit show, since the first pic I sent in was a close-up of an iris and it was rejected because "We already have a lot of this subject, sorry." What's so bullshit about that? One of the two accepted photos was also a close-up of an iris. *rolls eyes*
So anyways, I've been camera-happy the last few days and taking pictures of anything and everything.
Then I thought of that thing that goes around the LJs every now and again. You know the one, 'Ask me to take a picture of anything and I'll post it here...'
So here's your chance. Ask me to take a picture of anything (except me; there are no pictures of me on the internet as far as I know and I'd like to keep it that way) and I'll post it for you.
Any takers?