immauss

For sometime, I've been dithering over opening a separate site dedicated to selling my images. My biggest problem was I wanted to minimize the cost while still having a customizable page. (dA store is nice, but it's rather bland, and there's not much you can do with it.) I looked at several different web services, and finally stuck with Imagekind.com. Their community is nothing like dA, but for ~$8 a month, I have a dedicated customizable storefront, unlimited space for images, I get to set the prices, and I get a %15 commission on the framing. The store has been officially open now since Monday. I announced it to my Facebook friends, and on my FB Fan page and I've actually had some sales already. I don't expect to get continuous sales, but it's a great feeling when you know someone thought enough of your work to pay money for it and hang it on their wall.

Check out the store at : store.immauss.com
My Portfolio will stay with dA: www.immauss.com
The FB fan page is: http::/www.facebook.com/immauss

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Finally, the Groups are here. As soon as I saw the announcement, I applied to create the 360x180 group. However, vlue beat me to the punch. He did however see fit to make me a co-founder of the group when I contacted him. So, without further ado, the #360x180 Group !!!

Drop by and take a look around. We are actively looking for new members, so if you are creating panoramas, join us, if you just enjoy seeing panos, give us a watch! It's still early, so its hard to tell where we are going to go, but one thing myself and agree on is that we want to stress quality over quantity. Only the best 360 degree panos will be accepted.

Hopefully, I'll have sometime here soon to post some new shots. I have several in my queue that I have yet to complete and upload. Time is the killer of all things... The holidays may grant me some time between studying and holidays, but we will have to see. Until then, enjoy the random features.

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If you have the time, make sure you head over to to vote in the latest competition: Building Exterior Panoramas.

Your's truly has an entry as well.

You can see all of the entries here:

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And you can vote here:

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That's how I've been for the last 3 weeks. My day job has been keeping me around for way too long lately. We have a big week long inspection this week, and getting prepared for it has eaten up WAY too much of my life. In the middle of all that, I've trying to get images printed and mounted for the upcoming International Bazaar at the NATO base here in Naples. The Frame shop "says" they have the ready before the show. Time will tell.

Things are starting to ease up a bit now and I have a little more time. We are also planning to head out to Scotland on Wednesday the 7th. This is our twice postponed trip. Once due to illness and once because of work. This time, we will not be denied.

Wow! So sites like dA and flickr can really pay off. A few weeks ago, I was contacted by St Martin's publishing out of New York. It seams one of their graphic artists used a photo of mine they found on flickr as the background for the cover of an upcoming book. A New York Times best selling author even. The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds will be on store shelves in March of next year, and the background for the cover is from my Piazza di Spagna panorama.




This is the pano they used:


I'm really glad they were honest about it. It would have been very easy for them to send this to print with out telling me and the possibility of me ever finding out would have been pretty low. I am glad now that I have always left my images as Copyrighted to me, and not creative commons. Not only will I get a credit for the book cover, but I'm also getting Paid!!!!!