A new product arrived in the post this week, so I have been busy creating new designs for it. They are double sided metal keyrings.
I am trying to use different images in these over the standard acrylic range to keep them looking different, plus they are a different crop.
I need to work out how to list them on my website as I would like people to have the option to choose which image they would like in each side, put this will take some work.
The other week we had planned to go in search of steam engines, but we found out that our plans were foiled by a lack of babysitters, but today we were sorted!
The day started off foggy, which meant there would be some nice steam coming from the engines if we could find them! We got to Alresford and headed to the station. The platform was busy, the sign said trains at 11:45, it was 11:50! I heard the platform master say the train had stawled, how does a steam train stawl? and it was being towed by the other and they didn’t know how long it would be.
So, armed with the informtion that we had some time, we headed off to find a better view point along the track. Following train tracks is not easy and alway possible, so walking pararrel to the track along the road I kept an ear open for the train and an eye open for a footpath.
30 minutes later I found a footpath around the edge of a farmers field, just past a bridge that the track went over. We found the track! I could see the signal too and noted it was in the stop position. We waited… 15 mintues later the signal changed, 5 minutes after that the train came by!
I braced myself and took photos until the buffer filled up. We then headed off for something to eat with the knowledge that we had some photos and hoped they were good.
Here is one I have processed and am showing it in a mousemat! I’m very pleased with the result!
Its taken me all week, but I have updated the whole of the Keyring page in my site.
It now has more keyrings than before, nearly 100 and they can all be bought via paypal. Plus, each image has been recreated so that, if you have a retina display, like the ipad 3 an above, they look lovely and crisp.
After a very very busy 10 days, I have fully updated, coaster pages, mousemat pages, all new keyring page and new bookmark pages, all of which are also mobile device, responsive design layouts. Wow, busy time.
We have now started uploading our items to ebay, so you can now by our items via ebay.
As more items are added, I will start to add ebay links to the items on the gifts pages, as well as or instead of paypal links (depending on what exists already).
This should make it a lot easier for us to sell and maintain the items and so get more online to buy. Thats the theory anyway!
We have started with
Buying Online from Lee Orchard Photography, Makes Progress!
Some rulers, coasters and mousemats can now be bought online.
Here: HomeFrontHistory Emporium
and
a selection of rulers from my site: www.leophotography.com/rulers
more added soon, the rest will follow shortly, although it is a massive task, so if you would like to buy from me please mail me.
Recently I have been working on recoding some of the gifts pages, starting with the coasters.
I have been trying to remove the iframe option to make the pages more future proof, as iframe code is now becoming defunct.
Unfortunately, most of my gift pages, like rulers and mouse mats are also coded in the same manner, so its going to be a long job and a matter of finding spare time to do it.
I have now completed and uploaded the coasters pages. This means now all you have to do is move the coaster over the image to see a larger version of it, instead of having to click on each one.
Also, when you now click on the image, it changes the url at the top of the screen, giving a direct link to that image for ordering purposes. Just mail me the link, or write down the code as before. This isn’t available on all coasters pages, as it was something I decided to add half way throught the updates, but it will be eventually.