I have discovered another website similar to PhotoShelter in that it allows you to store up to 100 images that can be sent as your entries to photo competitions. "Cafe Image Management" is very easy to use and your images look great there!

Iowa Public Television will be airing their documentary on Iowa's One-room Schools during their spring fund-drive, "Festival", on the following dates:

Sunday - March 1, 2009 at Noon
Thursday - March 5, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Saturday, March7, 2009 at 11:30 am

The DVD of the documentary and my new book, "Harker's One-room Schoolhouses: Visions of an Iowa Icon", are going to be offered as premiums for contributors during Festival.

I have added two new on-line galleries to my "portfolio" of image sharing with the world at large. "PhotoShelter" and "WishStock" are both entities that allow you to create galleries of your work and will help market your images. WishStock is free to set-up and only charge you when someone buys an image download, whereas PhotoShelter charges a monthly fee for e-commerce. Your gallery set-up is free and you are allowed a 150mb total image bank on PhotoShelter, however.

The feature I like best about PhotoShelter is called "Lightbox". This is a seperate area of images that you can share with anyone by simply adding their e-mail address to the "share list". I find this particularly useful when I want to send images to a photography contest, competition or grant source.

I have joined another on-line gallery to showcase and sell my work: it is called "AbsoluteArts.com" and they have a great program. If you choose their "free" sign up option you get to post eight images and price them at what you want. AbsoulteArts will act as the broker for sales, basically connecting buyers with photographers. There is a sales agreement spelling out the details, and they are biased towards the photographer.

Sizing your images must fit a specific parameter and I can easily say they look great!