Photographers’ sites in Australia
As many of you know I’ve recently renewed my passion for photography in a big way. I’ve been doing a lot of Australiana photography but my recent trip to Canada and Alaska produced over 4,000 photos of landscapes, wild animals, plants and seascapes. It’s been a wonderful time of travelling and then pouring through photos remembering each place Graham and I visited.
While away overseas I purchased a Canadian Photographer’s magazine and discovered two things I hadn’t yet thought about – Photo Tours (love that idea!) and Photographer’s sites for selling digital downloads of photos as well as print format.
So I’ve begun researching and found some tours done here in Australia and have them on my wish list, but I’m struggling to find a web service for photographers here in Australia that will do the following:
- Provide a website for uploading images
- Choice of templates
- No need to know software
- Large number of images can be loaded
- Use own domain name (if wanted)
- Set up a shopping cart
- Allow purchase of digital images to be downloaded
- Provide printed copies of photos for sale
- Monthly or annual fee that is not out of reach for the average person
I’ve found many sites in the UK and US that provide this service but nothing in Australia. At least, not on the same scale. So I’m on a quest and if you know of something suitable, please let me know. The type of sites I’m referring to are:
I could use any of the above but I want to be able to offer sales in AUD, not USD or GBP and I want to offer local postage delivery costs and not international.
So, if you know of anything I’m all ears!
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Hi Kathie,
I too have been looking for this, the closest thing i can find that we have here in australia is redbubble. They don’t sell the digital downloads but they do sell the prints i can reccommend the quality, they are of very high standard.
Maybe there is a business idea.
Belinda
Thanks Belinda. I found a site last night that will let me sell digital downloads in AUD! It’s a US based site. Since I believe that many of my photos will sell as digital downloads this would work well for me – it just means I need to connect with a printer here in Australia but perhaps I could combine the two – means having two separate accounts. I knew of Red Bubble but hadn’t explored it much.
Thats Great Kathie, care to send me the link ? My boyfriend is a photographer i would love to pass the link onto him
You probably could combine the two easily enough That could work fine
Mine is at http://australianphotos.ifp3.com/ so it’s with ifp3.com. I’m just uploading some photos now but there’s already a few to look at. Just need to work out how the shopping cart set up works.
I like your photo blog Katie.. you got the real talent in taking wonderful pictures! great work..