My personal Animal Antics group of funny pet adoption began with our image of a cat together with one yellow canary feather herniated from his smiling face. I actually created the image as being a stock photo, to start with I submitted it I was invited to exhibit at the Sausalito Art Celebration (way back when it ended up being unusual to be utilizing Photoshop).

Someone acquired advised me to create some un-matted 8×10 prints besides the larger matted and frameworked fine art prints. The first day of the festival We sold all 8 of the Cat & Canary images. I went residence that night along with printed up several more.and the next day I offered all of them.

Greeting Cards and also Anthropomorphic Pets

I understood at that point that I experienced an image that really visited with the public. While i thought about it, this occurred to me that perhaps the image should be a greeting card. I made an appointment with one of the art directors, Collette Kulak, from Portal Publications. My spouse and i showed her several of my anthropomorphic animal photographs, including, or training course, the cat and the canary.

Next, i suggested that probably, with Portal’s help, I could be the animal equivalent of Anne Geddes, who was enormously popular with her images of babies in plants, pea pods and so forth. A bold statement on reflection!

Exclusivity and Higher Royalty Prices

Collette, to my everlasting amazement, agreed with me! We started off along with four images and added a few more each quarter. After regarding two years I was start to wonder if everything I was putting in to those images was worth it. Then abruptly one quarter I got the royalty check of approximately $6,000.00. From then on things just took off.

The cards became so well received that Portal offered me a higher movie stars to be exclusive with them, and soon I was Portal’s top selling card artist. I held that position until Portal was purchased by an investment capital company and gradually carved up until nothing at all was left.

Funny Felines, Camaraderie, and Rewarding Work

I am today in the process of restoring the line with fresh distributors. The cards are doing well and I am fired up to see a recovery taking shape. I carefully enjoy working with pets and the process of creating funny cat photos and humorous puppy images. I also take pleasure in the camaraderie of using a team, something that seldom happens in my investment photography. One other element of this undertaking which is gratifying: I get a ton of e-mail from those who just plain get a drag out of the cards.

Espresso Mugs, T-shirts and.Barbecue Aprons!

Furthermore, I am making these images available at CafePress for a variety of imprinted items including coffee personalize mugs, mouse pads, T-shirts (for both people and pets), water bottles, company, barbecue aprons! This really is all part of my technique of diversification, of searching for ways to reach while wide an audience as possible for existing images, images that I consider as income-producing assets.

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