Where You Can See My Photos

This image has sold over forty times. I took it at a house fire not far from my home.

Where can I see your photos?

It is a question I here from time to time.

I have several answers. Most fit my personality as a smart ass.

“On the walls of my house.” I do have several hanging here and there.

“On my web site (RobertWilderJr.com).” I did have someone leave a comment that I should try selling my photos as they are quite good. This was after he/she had visited my web site. Hmm.

The most honest answer is “dunno”. This is true as I don’t know who most of my buyers are.

I use a couple outlets for my sales. Foremost is via a Print On Demand service (POD), Fineart America. Sales from my website go through this platform. Basically the POD sells prints and products using my images. I get a commission for each sale. The cool part is I set the amount of my commission. The bad part is I do not know who bought my art. All I get is a location meaning I have art all around the country (and world) hanging on a wall, but have no idea where.

Another outlet I use is a Stock site. They sell my images and I get commission. They set the prices and commissions. Again, the buyers are their customers so I do not know who has made a purchase. What is nice is most of the sales are digital images for use on the internet. A quick search often shows me where my art is being used. What is bad is the commissions are small, usually well under a dollar per image though I have sold some that fetched a commission as high as $20. Not much money to be made, but as a good friend told me, I may not be making a lot of money, but a lot of people are seeing my photos and the buyer literally had millions to choose from. It is a nice ego boost.

I am not currently in any galleries, though I do think about it now and then. If you know a place that might be open to displaying my work let me know.

So now the braggy part. Most photos are clickable and will take you to my web site. Many are screen shots (some are foreign language) and a click will take you to the original image. Each has a story to go with it.

My first big “public” sale was to a small magazine catering to apiarists. I actually made the cover (a relatively big payday) and as an added bonus they sent me some beeswax candles as a Christmas gift.

My first and only (so far) cover. They flipped the pic to fit the cover and there was a little blurb inside the mag about me.

Audubon used one of my photos to illustrate a “Call to Action”. Cool, but they used a pic I had entered into a contest they had so no payday.

This pic was actually from an Audobon Awards contest. I did not know they used it for this “Call to Action” feature until I Googled it.

Beyond that I have been popping up in on line magazines, newspapers and advertising. Most popular are my photos of firefighting. Many of them came from a single house fire that was a few blocks from my house including one that has sold over forty times.

This is a Japanese Government web site. The story is on the importance of prescribed burns to protect the environment and prevent wildfires. I don’t have it n my web site, but if asked…

Here is the same pic in Game And Fish Magazine. Same subject matter. This was taken at a wildfire demonstration at Oscar Sherer State Park.

Yeah. I am a photographer known world wide.

My favorite though was from a fire demonstration put on by a local fire department. My photo of a burning car was used to illustrate an article on a fatal car crash and fire.

Hydrant wrenches are vital firefighting tools. Chief Supply thought this pic was vital to get the word out.

This is an Australian Company. I had to Google “Skip Bins”. How about you?

Man, this house would be famous if it still existed. After the fire it was torn down.

Just to sow I do sell stuff other than fire pics. This German travel site used this pic to lure tourists to Florida.

Oops. almost forgot this pic from a Sacramento paper. Seems local by comparison.

Oh, yeah, I do have a Pinterest Account (floridaphotobob – not sure if I have any sales because of it) and a Redbubble Account. Set it up a few years ago and never did anything with it. Forgot I had it until I got a sale a few weeks ago.

Plus I am on Facebook (RobertWilderJr) and Twitter (@FloridaPhotoBob).

So take a look and leave a comment if you like what you see. Many photos are clickable and will take you to my web site.