TheMadPeacock On The Sofa

Mike Cohen has an interesting blog I have just started reading, in a recent post (SmugMug vs. Flickr)he talked about his move to smugmug and that got me thinking about why I use and recommend both smugmug and Flickr..

I have been using Flickr for some years, I was turned on to it after a friends friend got “spotted” by a gallery owner on flickr and sold some prints. So I joined and was surprised at how much I enjoyed sharing my photos with the world… photography had up to then been a private thing for me that most of my friends did not even know I did.

I maintained a web gallery that I programmed in flash myself that had a print purchase systems, framing preview and some other cool features I was proud of but maintaining the development of the site was too much and was not where my real interest was so I switched the site to smugmug.

I have a pro account so I am able to maintain my url of www.imagebysp.com, this was important to me as I have built up a reasonable level of traffic to that URL over the years and I am able to sell my prints. The nice thing is that smugmug looks after all the printing, shipping, cash collection etc. so I don’t need to be involved.

One less thing to worry about!