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		<title>Update &#8211; Weddings, Stock, Redbubble!</title>
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This isn&#8217;t just cause I&#8217;m bad at blogging   It&#8217;s also cause I&#8217;ve been putting a lot of time into other things &#8211; it takes so much time getting stock images uplaoded all over the place, and all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=67&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230;I&#8217;ve managed to go over a month without any posts! I guess I&#8217;ll be posting a lot all in one go then&#8230;
First, Stock updates &#8211; I finally got approved with IStockPhoto last month!   I&#8217;ve not sent that many images to them yet, been too busy, but so far I&#8217;ve only got 3 approved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=39&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://gurumel.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything!
This is cause I&#8217;ve been pretty busy doing a new batch of product shots for my favourite customer   Your Own Brand Golf. They are a local company and were my first customer when I set up the business, so it&#8217;s been great to go back and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=36&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a couple of days of nice weather so I&#8217;ve been out in the garden a lot this week &#8211; yay to Spring! Or was that Summer&#8230;.?

Also..it does seem that seasonally themed shots are getting are lot more hits on microstock sites right now, which makes sense, so why not load up on nice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=32&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates &#8211; moo.com, microstock&#8230;stuff</title>
		<link>http://gurumel.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/updates-moocom-microstockstuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what&#8217;s new&#8230;?
Looking through the calendar so far I&#8217;m averaging 3 post days a month..which isn&#8217;t great, but then I usually post more than once when I update, so it just looks like I don&#8217;t update that often  
I ordered some of the Moo.com minicards I posted about earlier this month, and they&#8217;ve just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=27&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky Oliver closing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why I chose to not upload to LuckyOliver, along with other sites, but I guess I&#8217;m glad I did!
They have announced through their blog that they will be closing for business on May 15th.
In setting up it was certainly clear to me that smaller sites would probably mean less sales and more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=25&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great microstock debate&#8230;or is there even much of a debate to be had these days?
When I first got into all this online photography promotion stuff I looked into microstock, read the statement from Photographers Direct, among others, and pretty much concluded that they were right. Selling an image for such a low amount does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=22&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flickr, Redbubble&#8230;where to go??</title>
		<link>http://gurumel.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/flickr-redbubblewhere-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just added the link to my gallery which is on fotopic.net. I&#8217;ve been with them a while now, I like the galleries, the easy to use system&#8230;I&#8217;m a big fan! They are local to me, and I&#8217;ve never had any problems with them, except maybe that the presentation of your galleries is quite limited, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=14&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photoshop Disasters</title>
		<link>http://gurumel.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/photoshop-disasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new favourite blog..of the moment   &#8211; Photoshop Disasters
Showcasing the worst photoshopping in media and mags etc &#8211; some bad bad stuff!
Here&#8217;s my favourite &#8211; although apparently it didn&#8217;t go out as the final artwork &#8211; DS Game Imagine Babies.
Oo cheeky! Using the thumbnails straight from istockphoto! Although, yeah, it didn&#8217;t end up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gurumel.wordpress.com&blog=3274144&post=13&subd=gurumel&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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