Sold my first image!

[jainamishra]

<p>Am thrilled to finally see an image in print!<br>

What began as a hobby has turned into things that are valued by others - others who are experts - and that feels really good!<br>

This thrill isn't as well understood by friends and family ... as other photographers would .... so I'm sharing this.<br>

Guess the first image will always be special!<br>

Cheers!<br>

jm</p>

[mark_starr]

<p>Jaina,<br>

Congratulations! What a nice feeling to have, and I wish you many more!<br>

Mark</p>

[David_Cavan]

<p>Good for you Jaina. Congratulations. I hope that's the start of something great.</p>

[jainamishra]

<p>Thanks Mark & David! <br>

Its with Cosmopolitan's (Germany) Sept issue in an editorial article.<br>

Am full of disbelief and highly motivated at the same time!<br>

:)<br>

jaina</p>

[ken_jeanette1]

<p>Would like to see the photo, can you post here?</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Congratulations. You're right that people who don't pursue that sort of thing truly will not understand how you're feeling. Excellent! Stay hungry for more.</p>

[jainamishra]

<p>Sure Ken - here it is ....a scan of the article assuming its allowed! I mainly do cultural portraits and lifescapes ... so this image is one of Naga tribals.<br>

<br /> Matt - thats got me working 18 hours a day and very very willingly! It's the first time I'm working in a 'craft' so seeing the results of my work is refreshingly different!<br>

Jaina</p><div></div>

[geoffs1]

<p>I get a thrill every time I get a check for an image!<br>

I actually also get a thrill just seeing a "freebie" in print...</p>

[pjmeade]

<p>Congratulations. It's always a thrill.</p>

[jens_peter_troelsen]

<p>Congratulation! I too just sold a photo to a small band, and I got their CD - that is a strange experience seeing your own picture used by someone else!</p>

[dianedh]

<p>Wow - congratulations! Especially since it's a publication....heck, I'd be thrilled if I sold a picture to my next door neighbor!</p>

[jainamishra]

<p>Yes - the thrill certainly boils down to seeing it printed / valued by others.<br>

Its definitely not the money (yet)- the 80 euro won't go very far even in the dinner celebrations for the family :) but its fun to know that someone out there is <em>willing</em> to pay for things I produce!<br>

Wish we could all sit down together celebrate our first sales :)<br>

Thanks all!</p>

 

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>I did sell my first photographic image to my next door neighbor. He still owes me $20. </p>

<p>Nice goin' Jaina. I know what you're feelin'. Had a photo taken by a Texas Monthly staff photographer of my t-shirt design someone was doing a story about promoting a return of a late '80's oil boom that never panned out obviously. The title along with my full color artwork on the t-shirt read "Oil Field Trash Shall Rise Again" done in a Russian poster design motif.</p>

<p>Damn! It felt good to see that. Never saw the t-shirt in any stores though.</p>

[aplumpton]

<p>A bit of you is communicated with your photo that reaches a larger public and which has been chosen by those who are closely familiar with the power of photograhy and art. A very nice feeling. May you have many more successes. My first two photos to be published went into a national photography magazine that was celebrating a 150th anniversary year of the invention of (negative-positive) photography and it sat, with one other amateur photographer's two pictures, among many of those from respected professional photographers, past and present. A feeling of personal satisfaction, of course, but some small indication that my craft might be getting somewhere. Thanks for sharing with us your pleasure, and your very fine image.</p>

[jainamishra]

<p>Thanks Tim and Arthur :)</p>