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Bill Swartwout Photography at the Imagekind Marketplace

Bill’s photographs are part of one of the world’s fastest-growing art gallery sites.

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I’ve been working on revamping my gallery at Imagekind, where I first began selling my photography online 13 years ago. Specializing in wall art, Imagekind produces high quality decor at a competitive pricing structure. Please visit Travel.Imagekind.com to check out my new look.

Imagekind is an online marketplace for independent artists and photographers. Art buyers can discover new art prints and posters from tens of thousands of unique and independent artists from around the world at Imagekind.com, one of the world’s fastest-growing art sites. Offering nearly two million high-quality fine art images, customers can select unframed, framed and canvas wall art prints by color, style, or to match home décor.

From my point of view, Imagekind.com offers independent artists and photographers (like me) the opportunity to display and sell art online with no up-front fees, and the profit from each sale goes directly to the artist (me).

Imagekind’s gallery-quality giclee digital printing is recognized as best-in-class.  There are. literally, millions of combinations of artwork, frames, and paper types, and canvasses so you, the customer, can see why Imagekind.com is a one-of-a-kind art destination.

I currently have more than 600 different art photographs available at Imagekind. They are organized into a variety of collections (sub-galleries) to help you narrow your search. If I do not have exactly what you are looking for you can also search among those other thousands of artists to find the wall art of your dreams. Please be sure to visit my gallery at Imagekind. Click: Travel.Imagekind.comm.

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Are Art Photographers Not Real Artists?

Art Photographers Are Artists. Period.

A recent discussion over at an “art forum” had one self-centered (painting or drawing) artist complain that “Contests with art and photography are kind of feeble on the art side.” He goes on to explain it this way:

Hey, Alice, great painting. How long did it take?
“Thanks Mary, I worked ’til the wee hours every night all last week.”
“Wow, that’s a lot of work – you certainly deserve this honorable mention.”
“And here’s our winner, Bill. Kudos for the great picture of the sun setting over the canal. How long did that take?”
Bill replies, “About 1/125th of a second.”

Don’t ya just love that attitude toward photographers?

I get tired of some artists making comparisons like that. Here is my response to that self-centered complainer:

Actually one of my best selling photographs was captured in less than that 1/125th of a second. But that is only one tiny moment of the hours and hours needed to “get it right.” My best selling series (of the Indian River Inlet Bridge) has me being there on several dozen different occasions – in all kinds of weather (well, mostly good weather but in temperatures from below freezing to nearly 100 degrees (F). Oh, yeah, I’ve been “on location” from before sunrise to nearly midnight. And I have made, literally, thousands of exposures – which need sorting, culling and processing/editing down to the select few that exhibit what I saw when I made that short camera click. Yeah, maybe it would be nice to stay home, even if up ’til 2:00 AM, in my air conditioned home.

Indian River Inlet Bridge at Twilight

In summary: I sell photographs of places (landscapes/seascapes) that are photographed a gazillion times every year. But for some reason there are people who spend several hundred dollars on some of my pieces for images of the same “subject” that an iPhone captures for free. Maybe there is a reason. 🙂

PLEASE feel free to add your point of view in a comment below.