"You should sell your photographs, you know!"

Or, "Do you sell your photos?"

These are the statements that I get on a weekly basis from friends and colleagues. However, my reply is always, "I know" or "I don't have time" or "Knowbody will buy them".

So - I have decided to sell my photos. At first it seemed like a simple task, afterall I have a website and know a bit about web development. Also - I am a salesman! So it all seemed to make sense - ot so I thought....

My thoughts were to sell a limited set of photos through my website only and then if that went ok have an exhibition next year. I don't just want to end up selling prints to friends - if I am going to do this I want to sell to people that have never met me but have seen my images and like them for what they are. If that is because it reminds them of where they have been or a type of light on a mountain that they remember then great. The money isn't an issue to be honest - yeah I would love to get paid for a passion of mine but what really excites me is somebody would be willing to pay for my images to be hanging on their wall. That would be a real honor and something I would be very proud of.

Dewent Water at dawn, The Lake District

To be honest - I don't think what I have done so far is really going to work - but I have set up a really simple contact form on my site to begin with. I think it will be useful for people that ask me about my images - at least now I have somewhere to point them! More importantly I have decided on a price - £70 for an A3+ print. I think that is reassuringly expensive but not over the top (in fact good value for a 1 of 50)

Other the next few months I am going to try and promote my images and I think I need to do the following 2 things...

• Create a niche - difficult to do as although I feel my landscape photographs are unique, they don't really have a theme. Do I go for an area - such as Wales or The Lake District? Or B&W?
• Get people who are interested in purchasing fine art to my site! - this could be people that have visited the areas I have been maybe? Or people looking for presents?

The next few months are going to be exciting if nothing else...