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Liking the look of mpixpro.com

I’ve just signed up for mpixpro.com, having been a very satisfied customer of their prosumer mpix.com printing service.

I’m impressed so far. They offer a ood range of products (including prints on fine art paper, and some funky looking acrylic prints).

Their site seems to be set up so that you can direct clients there to see all the product and print options, but without showing the prices. That way, if you’re adding markup (which you should be as a pro shooter), your clients won’t see that, but they can make informed choices about what they’d like.

Mpixpro also provide white-label PDFs which describe the different product types. If you put them on your own site, it would give clients lots of useful information without getting the in way of your own branding and service. Nice.

The calibration prints are on the way, but if they’re as spot-on as my previous mpix jobs have been, I think I might have found my new printing home, after much shopping around. Turns out it’s the big brother of the place I already loved.

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New site launched for Alan Ross Photography

I’ve just launched a new site for Santa Fe-based landscape photographer, master printer and teacher Alan Ross.

Alan was looking for a site to showcase his great work, his workshops and his tech-related blog. He explains, ” I had very little ability to make updates and changes to my old site, and besides needing a new look, I desperately needed a site that I could manage almost entirely by myself, with no working knowledge of code and HTML, and no special, expensive software.”

Enter WordPress and Photoshelter. We chose the Crisp Photoshelter theme as the basis for the design, but tweaked a number of elements to create the templates that would work across both the text (WordPress-driven) and image-heavy (Photoshelter-driven) parts of the site.

First up was adjusting the navigation to include all the sections that Alan wanted – Workshops, Shop and Blog, as well as the usual About and Contact info.

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2009 Folk Art Market photos

Still trying to catch up with myself and lots of client web work, but I finally got time to sort and process the photos I took at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market recently.

I built and maintain their website, and I also donated a bunch of my photos from last year, which got some good use, so I was up the hill again this year.

Here’s a slideshow of some of the pictures I took:

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New Mexican use my images for Folk Art Market supplement

New Mexican use my images for Folk Art Market supplement

The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market is this weekend, and the New Mexican newspaper have just published their regular supplement for the Market.

And I’m pleased to say they used a bunch of my photographs, including 6 on this spread (I greyed out the ones that aren’t mine).

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Photographing Joseph – a children’s portrait shoot

Happy poser

Santa Fe is a town with a lot of grandparents. Folks move here when they retire, and children who grew up here often have to move away to find work.

So it was no surprise when I got a baby portrait session booking from a grandmother for when her daughter was in town for a visit with the new grandson, nine-month-old Joseph.

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Lensic Performing Arts Center use my images

Lensic uses my photo of Antonia Apodaca

Who says Flickr doesn’t generate business? The Lensic Performing Arts Center here in Santa Fe got in touch recently to see if they could use a couple of my images to promote their Nuestra Música show this Friday.

Apparently there just aren’t that many good photos of legendary New Mexico musician Antonia Apodaca kicking around and they found mine on Flickr. One lesson from this is to make sure your images are tagged usefully, as you never know who’s looking.

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Photoshelter showcase my photography site

photoshelter kudosPhotoshelter – the online photo archiving, display and selling site have chosen this site as one of their examples of customization.

It’s in the Marketing/Promo category on their examples page.

When I’m not taking pictures, I’m a web designer, and I adapted one of their templates and integrated it with WordPress to make it easy to update the photo and text sides of the site, while giving it all a consistent look and feel (more details on how I did it in my earlier blog post).

Photoshelter has 40,000 photographers using the service, and they chose around 25 sites as examples, so it’s quite an honour.

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My opening opening

Shots on the wall

So the opening reception went really well yesterday, and I enjoyed myself.

Lots of friends turned out which was gratifying, and the folks at Java Joe’s couldn’t have been more gracious or helpful.

And I sold a print (thanks, Steve and Susan), which was very gratifying.

Just a reminder if you’re in Santa Fe that the pictures are up in Java Joe’s North (in the De Vargas Shopping Center across from Albertsons) until March 6th, so feel free to grab a cup of something and take a look.

If you’re further afield, you can look at all the pictures at my online print shop.

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Featured in NM Free Press

My show at Java Joe’s opens today, and as luck would have it, I’m also one of the featured photographers in the NM Free Press this week.

I’ve not seen a print edition yet, but they did a nice job online, and it’s a great to get such a nice write-up.

Hope to see some of you this afternoon. Now excuse while I go and fight off this cold.

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Flickr, Friendfeed and Twitter – more David than you can handle

Since I’m a webby person, it’s probably no surprise to learn that I’ve been tweeting, flickring and friendfeeding with the best of them.

So if you’re similarly enmeshed in social networks of various online sorts, you’re more than welcome to follow along with the day to day travails of yours truly. I can’t promise blinding insights, but I keep up a regular stream of photos and news going, so feel free to jump in:

Follow me on:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/santafephoto

Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/wycombiensian

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidgmoore