BUYING A PRINTER
Today I bought an Epson Eco Tank Photo 8500 printer on Amazon, sight unseen. But buying a printer is not as easy as it sounds. It is knowing what I can do with the printer and then discovering where this technology leads me and feeling my way along into this new world that will be the complicated part. I have had an Epson printer before and it worked very well. I printed large prints which I sold in an Appalachian craft store downtown and also sold for $100 apiece to friends with all the money going to Sri Lankan tsunami relief. But that was fifteen years ago. And then I lost interest in trying to sell prints. For awhile after retiring I was a wedding photographer. But I discovered that while I liked taking photographs I didn’t like being a business person. So I retreated from wedding photography before irritating anyone too much. I stopped making printed photographs. For a while I made photographic books which are on blurb.com under the name of Billybaba, if you look in the Blurb bookstore. There are about 40 photography books there of India, Sri Lanka, Warren Wilson College and Western North Carolina and Europe. You can even leaf through them without buying them or you could buy them if you wanted to. The odd thing is that I have large printed photographs stored away and these photography books have been sitting, unpublicized, with no one knowing they are there, which even I have almost forgotten and had to search around to find, billybaba, the name I used. There must be about 40 photography books on Blurb.com. But as I shift from one technology to another I have left these pretty amazing technologies of printing and publishing behind.
(To be continued)
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 