Pete Linforth's blog

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I’ve been working on some new code that delivers product placements from service providers directly onto my site and here it is. The great thing about this is that the service offerings are changing all the time keeping it fresh and new.

My work with Fotolia continues to show promise with another 3 sales in July and all of these my most popular image to date. Just click the link to be taken to that image.

Pyr 02 by Pete Linforth- Fotolia.com

You could also visit my complete collection of images on Fotolia.

Finally got to grips with the Lulu interface and managed to grab the code for my new art book preview Images from my mind.

Zazzle continues to deliver for me, this time I’ve sold some greetings cards with my slippers design.

Slippers by Digital_Illusion
Shop for a cardat zazzle.co.uk

Take a look at my whole range here

My WEBSHOTS account has finally hit the 1,000,000 views, well 1,000,550 views actually. It’s been a long time coming and those last few views seemed to take for ever to get there. but I’m there at last.

My WEBSHOTS art hits the 1,000,000 views

I’ve created a special album with a single image in it dedicated to all the people who have viewed my work. You can visit that album by clicking here.

by pete1111

So I guess it’s onto the next million – now how long is that going to take?

I’m just starting to get into creating WordPress themes so I thought I’d share my creations. I’m not sure how you’d download one but if you like one and want it then drop me a line and I’ll mail over the code. Simple as that really. If you want a theme designing then I can do this also but you might have to pay me then

You’ll find them located under the Art tab as theme creation is somewhat of an artistic adventure.

Social network by Pete Linforth

Click here if you want this image without the SAPMLE wartermark

I must say I’m impressed with Fotolia as an organisation that I can work with. Firstly lets give you an insight into what Fotolia actually is all about. This next bit is taken directly from their site in the About Us section.

Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.

Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.

Photographers and designers constantly update Fotolia with thousands of new photos and illustrations each day, while photographers and designers receive commission from each photo sold and revenue from advertising on the free section.

Similar to the music or film industry, we believe that every artist’s (photographers and designers) image is a work of the soul and protected by intellectual property rights.

Fotolia is convinced that the principle reason for illegal pirated use of protected images is mainly due to the high price barrier created by other agencies.

Fotolia provides a compromise between photographers and buyers, by protecting a photographer’s intellectual property rights and offering high commissions, while legally lowering the price barrier so that everyone may enjoy/afford these beautiful images.

Fotolia challenges the traditional closed agency model by offering the opportunity to monetize their talents to everyone, hobbyist or professional, whatever their fame, status, or size of portfolio may be.

Thanks to our collaborative online model, Fotolia is able to offer individuals and professionals (advertising agencies, press, small business, graphic artists, designers) the greatest image collection in the world for free or as little as £ 1 .

So now you have an idea what they’re about It’s worth telling you why I’m so impressed.

I love creating art/graphics digitally. I’ve been into that sort of thing for a long time now and I’ve created thousands of images for desktop wallpaper over the years under my WEBSHOTS Id pete1111- Check them out if you want some crazy whacked out stuff for your computer desktop. They are all free so you’ve nothing to lose.

But then it occurred to me that I could perhaps use my creative juices to make a little extra income. Searching Google for a while delivered this company called Fotolia and I soon realised after reviewing their site they were the ones for me.

1. I only have to worry about the creative element. They provide the business side.
2. They manage all the accounts.
3. They encourage contributor communications.
4. They provide affiliation tools.
5. They handle advertising.
6. They cover a huge subject and concept range allowing me as a niche creative to get involved.

Results so far have been good, my work is up for display and I’m getting a fair amount of interest in terms of people viewing my creations and a few sales already has kept me boyant in using Fotolia as a means to generate some additional income. I’m looking at maybe a two to three year journey here in order to create sufficient images for my portfolio and for the buying community out there to get to know my creations. I’m in it for the long term but hey I love creating these things anyway so it’s no chore.

I’ve been working on some construction pieces recently and thought I’d share just a small sample with you.

I like these forms as they’re a throw back to my old engineering days. They are constructions, things that could be made and engineered. they feel somehow real and yet they are only real in my own imagination. They do exist of course but only in binary form, it is only when the correct algorithmic code is applied do you get to see what the construction is all about.

Click on the preview images to go to the hosting site where you can download full size images suitable for a desktop background or slide show.

Selly Oak Constituency, Birmingham City Council, is holding its first Arts Trail Exhibition and Competition (optional), organised on behalf of Selly Oak Constituency Libraries and the Constituency’s Be Active Campaign.

The exhibition and competition are open to everyone (over 5 years) and will include:

• photographs, paintings/drawings and poetry (for adults – 16+)
•  photographs, paintings/drawings and poetry – Theme: ‘About My Area’ (for children and young people – 5-15 yrs)

All other entries will be displayed at one of our 4 Constituency Libraries during February and March 2010.

I set myself up with a Zazzle Store some time ago and didnt really do much with it. But to my surprise just recently things have started to move in a positive direction and I;ve sold one of my prints which happens to be a favourite image of mine.

Dolphin sunset by Digital_Illusion
Browse other Sunset Posters

I’m thinking this might be an avenue I need to spend more time on, the site needs an uplift and I’ve so many more designs I could create I ought to get stuck in and start something big.