Budding-Entrepreneur

Image Searching

  Above: Bubble Nebula Courtesy of Photoshop & NASA - Beautiful isn’t it? Posted for your pleasure…

Free images can be spectacular. But, extraordinary images of Space don’t necessarily apply to a business website. So…

Which service to purchase from? istockphoto? inmagine? shutterstock? jupiter? sxc.hu? bigstock? dreamstime? fotolia? getty? 123rf? comstock? bing? I’ve perused/used them all…

Ended up subscribing to two - 123rf and dreamstime. Because they were good? Perhaps. Or perhaps because the pricing resonated with the moment.

Had particular fun and luck with 123rf. 34 cents/per subscribed image, 10 downloads or so per day for a month and had something fun to look forward to, 30 days straight.

And ended up with lots of wow material for sites and other stuff. To be used eternally.

An addiction of sorts. 

Bought others singly from most of the rest. I feel like a stamp collector with a load of stamp albums on my hard drive.

It’s a gas just to go gander at my collection like some regal patron matron with glass of wine in hand, cigarrette holder in other. Can you hear my satin gown whisper by as I float from picture to picture?

Some people cover their walls with great masters. Others like me stuff their hard drives with great bargains. My gallery resides in a Media folder via hard disk. OH no - a terrible thought… what if the electricity goes out?

Ever so often, I purposefully open the folder and gaze at my purchases, chin on palm, mesmerized.

You know how you can tell Great Photos from just good ones? You can go back and enjoy the great ones for a lifetime. They never grow old…

istock has a huge generic base. Usually can find the just right bland photo there. You can see the same image throughout a number of sites. We all have similar tastes… yes?

Started taking my own images a while back. You’ll find them on my other blogs here or there…

They say a picture’s worth a 1000 words.

Finding the right picture takes a 1000 minutes.

I know a girl who adds just the right image to her blog posts. I’d send you there but it’s for local teen girls only. The trick is… always being aware of a secondary undercurrent. An aftertaste… bit or wryness, dryness, humor or personalness.

It’s an art, really… finding the right image.

We’re very visual, us humans. Some people can paint pictures with words. But we’re not talking about them here, are we?

Point: I aspire, someday, to find the perfect pic per post. PPPP. In under a minute.