Announcing my New Nature Stock Photo Library - thanks Smugmug!!

ccraft

Hey everyone,

Well... it's been a lot of hard work but I was able to create my own Nature Stock Photography Library here on Smugmug.

A HUGE MASSIVE OH-MY-GOSH-YOU-GUYS-ARE-FANTASTIC thanks to the gifted people who created Smugmug - the amazing people who answer questions so quickly in the customization forums - and the awesome people who created those great .CSS themes). I honestly believe Smugmug is the best thing to ever happen to photographers. It's made my first year in business as a photographer so much easier. (I'm also found at another Smugmug address here http://photos.christinacraft.com where I post wedding images for clients). I have officially thanked Smugmug in my "About us" section.

My nature galleries now feature more than 1,800 pictures of wildilfe and nature (all keyworded) and I hope to start finally making some money from doing what I love most... nature photography.

You can find the new site here

http://www.naturestocklibrary.com

Any feedback would be welcome. I'm about to start sending out query letters to the world at large (magazines, postcard companies, greeting card companies, etc., etc.,)... so any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks a bunch!!
Christina

ian408

Looks good!

Harryb

Excellent site, good luck.

kdog

Congratulations, that must be very exciting. In the way of constructive criticism, I think you should lose that watermark across the middle of your images. The pictures look clear and sharp. However, they're so obscurred by the garrish watermark that I cannot even tell what the center of interest is in many cases. Take your sea otter shot for example. I cannot even tell if either of his eyes are supposed to be visible in that shot. I can't picture anybody buying that shot based on the way it looks in the gallery. I would simply post them in small or medium sizes, and put a copyright in a corner.

Good luck!
-joel

HiSPL

Great looking site, but I noticed that the share, links, blogs option is turned on. You should kill that so nobody will download your pics.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=51168&page=2&highlight=steal+pictures
Scroll down a little for the discussion...

Maestro

ccraft wrote:

Hey everyone,

Well... it's been a lot of hard work but I was able to create my own Nature Stock Photography Library here on Smugmug.

A HUGE MASSIVE OH-MY-GOSH-YOU-GUYS-ARE-FANTASTIC thanks to the gifted people who created Smugmug - the amazing people who answer questions so quickly in the customization forums - and the awesome people who created those great .CSS themes). I honestly believe Smugmug is the best thing to ever happen to photographers. It's made my first year in business as a photographer so much easier. (I'm also found at another Smugmug address here http://photos.christinacraft.com where I post wedding images for clients). I have officially thanked Smugmug in my "About us" section.

My nature galleries now feature more than 1,800 pictures of wildilfe and nature (all keyworded) and I hope to start finally making some money from doing what I love most... nature photography.

You can find the new site here

http://www.naturestocklibrary.com

Any feedback would be welcome. I'm about to start sending out query letters to the world at large (magazines, postcard companies, greeting card companies, etc., etc.,)... so any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks a bunch!!
Christina

It certainly does look like you are ready to go. Congratulations and I envy you. I would love to be able to do that. The galleries I looked at had some fantastic photos! I can see why you excelled in photography school.

The layout looks good to. It is very easy to navigate.

Bassett1976

ccraft, Where did you go to take these pictures. They are wonderful! (I realize some of them come from Costa Rica).

Skippy

ccraft wrote:

Hey everyone,

Well... it's been a lot of hard work but I was able to create my own Nature Stock Photography Library here on Smugmug.

A HUGE MASSIVE OH-MY-GOSH-YOU-GUYS-ARE-FANTASTIC thanks to the gifted people who created Smugmug - the amazing people who answer questions so quickly in the customization forums - and the awesome people who created those great .CSS themes). I honestly believe Smugmug is the best thing to ever happen to photographers. It's made my first year in business as a photographer so much easier. (I'm also found at another Smugmug address here http://photos.christinacraft.com where I post wedding images for clients). I have officially thanked Smugmug in my "About us" section.

My nature galleries now feature more than 1,800 pictures of wildilfe and nature (all keyworded) and I hope to start finally making some money from doing what I love most... nature photography.

You can find the new site here

http://www.naturestocklibrary.com

Any feedback would be welcome. I'm about to start sending out query letters to the world at large (magazines, postcard companies, greeting card companies, etc., etc.,)... so any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks a bunch!!
Christina

Wow Christina you have some amazing shots in the Library
All the best with your Business ..... the site looks great .... Skippy
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ysr612

looks good but you have this listed as a macaw

http://www.naturestocklibrary.com/gallery/2240026/1/122994370/Medium

RandySmugMug

the watermark ruins the viewing experience...after 2 pics i was done

Gale

I had to head straight to the Orca's:>))
Beautiful.
Nice set up

ccraft

Gale wrote:

I had to head straight to the Orca's:>))
Beautiful.
Nice set up

Thanks for all your awesome feedback! I will definitley go back to the drawing board with my watermark - maybe just putting a small one across the bottom. You all had a very good point htere and it was something I was worried about. Thanks for that.

Also, thanks for pointing out a few errors in the keywords. I'll definitely fix those.

I mostly travel across Canada and the US and all of the tropical pics are from Costa Rica.

Thanks again. You guys are the best!