SJP – Tips & Lessons

Hello all,

Just wanted to give you a brief update regarding my blog.  If you don’t know already I have hired Kelly Ridgell Designs to help me design a whole new brand that includes my websites.  So far I have two new logos

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I know you will like the ease of the new sites.  Feel free to email me with any suggestions….love them

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll keep you updated on the transition.

Thank you,

Janice Sullivan

Owner of SJP

janice@sullivanjphotography.com

galleries@sullivanjphotography.com

Hello all,

Today I was going to write about selective masking but I decided to talk briefly about what I have been up to.

If you read the last post from Susan Acker, the managing editor of our newsletter, you’ll know that SJP “Sullivan J Photography” has partnered with artflakes.com.  I’m excited about our work together; they will expose my work to the European communities.

I have been artist of the month in April & May 2011 at two different coffee shops.  I love working with the community and having my work shown to my local friends.  I’m a diehard coffee drinker and enjoy businesses like these.  I’m honored!!

We have our business Facebook page that Ashley started and we just added another page that has been so much fun!  We search for photographers that have shot Macro & Close-up work. We use Flickr & Facebook a lot; we noticed that the photographers on these sites are very nice.  Boy, I have had some really snobby photographers on some other sites…I won’t mention them but I’m done with that!  This is about having fun and showing some creative work out there. Check out our new page:

Professional Macro & Close-up Photography  - Like Us

I also decided to use my other blog site to post a photo every day Monday – Friday (or at least try to).  I use this blog (the one that you’re reading now) to discuss how I process my photographs or talk about equipment, which reminds me…I need to do that soon

Check out my new blog at Photographer Janice Sullivan.

I recently mentored one of our local high school students for a couple of months.  She’s a senior and interested in photography.  We had so much fun!!  It’s rare to find a young female that likes macro photography.

We are also in the process of changing our branding.  Ashley, Susan and myself are working with an amazing designer, so I’ll keep you posted when we’ve completed our new look

If you’re interested in reading more details about what we have been up to, please register for our newsletter.  All registered individuals receive a discount when purchasing work from us!

Hope you all have a great couple of weeks.  I’ll be back on the 19^th of May to talk about selective masking or maybe equipment, lol?  You can always subscribe to this blog if you don’t have time to read my “how too’s” at the time of the post, check out the upper right side of this blog…you can choose how you would like to subscribe.

Take care!!

Janice

Deutschland Here We Come

As the managing editor for the Sullivan J Photography monthly newsletter and a friend of Janice Sullivan’s I am proud to announce that SJP will be joining ARTFLAKES.com.

ARTFLAKES.com, which was launched in October 2010, is a new marketplace for photographers to make their work more accessible to potential buyers.  It’s pretty cool. Buyers can search through the database of images and choose the type of product on which they want the image printed. Options include art prints, poster prints, greeting cards and more. Each order is custom made to the buyer’s specification and is created in Germany one piece at a time. There is no mass production.

This is how the team at ARTFLAKES describes the mission of the business on its Web site, “We want to help artists, photographers, designers and archives to sell their work as real products. And we help all individualists of this world to stop buying standardized goods off the peg.

At ARTFLAKES you will find posters, art print, greeting cards and many more from international artists and designers. Things you won’t find anywhere else. Every product you order at ARTFLAKES is produced individually just for you. With all the care an artwork deserves.“

ARTFLAKES parent company, mygall.net, was started in Germany close to four years ago and offers similar services. 

If you have been searching for that perfect image, this is a great way for you to view unique prints that you won’t be able to find at the standard poster shop. And if you’re so inclined you can even order custom greeting cards and show off your new piece of art.

Here’s to the future of SJP photography and a new international partnership.

Some of the photographs offered:

Thank you,

Susan Acker
SJP “Sullivan J Photography”

Hello everyone,

Many of you know that we post to this blog every other Thursday but tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we, like many Americans, get together with family and friends to celebrate.  We (Ashley & I) celebrate our freedom and the opportunities we have received living in the United States.

Ashley and I would also like to thank you, our blog readers, for taking the time to stop by our site, and we really want to thank the readers that comment We enjoy reading your comments and are grateful for all of them.

We also want to thank our clients.  We appreciate your trust and enjoy working on your projects.  Without you we would not be fortunate to do what we love to do!  Thank YOU!!

We have met some wonderful people and are grateful to work with all of you!!  We look forward to more projects and working/connecting with our old friends as well as meeting new ones.

Again, thanks to you all!!!

Sincerely,

Janice & Ashley

FYI… Our next article by our guest author Maria Rainer will be on techniques to protect your photographs online.  So stop by again in a couple of weeks or subscribe to our blog to receive information on all aspects of Macro & Close-up photography.

Hello everyone,

I  am in the middle of a mini vacation so my time is limited.  I thought it would be nice to post my favorite photographs that have been discussed in SJP’s “Sullivan J Photography” Blog.

Hope you enjoy them….

Close up of the stem and backside of a daisy.

Photograph on Feedbag (Blog on Farmboy Fine Arts)

Happy Holidays to you all!

Take care everyone!

Cheers,

Janice

Hello everyone,

Today I thought it would be nice for you all to get to know me a bit better. Dianna Castillo from Southern California Life News in the Morning interviewed me several weeks ago. Since I write every other Thursday on all aspects of Macro & Close-up Photography I feel this interview will give my articles a more personal level to them.

Yes, I will discuss Macro equipment on my next post in a couple of weeks…I figured I should get this out to you asap since it’s already been several weeks since I was interviewed. Thanks to youtube…I can share it with you.

Hope you’re not too bored :0), here you go:

Diana Castillo interviews Janice Sullivan, owner of SJP “Sullivan J Photography”

Cheers,
Janice