Sahara Smith
Photo for Outlaw Guitars in California
WHAT ARE THEY?
Well Kids, They are pictures like on your phone BUT you can hold the picture in your hands! AND they have text messages on the back that you can read - like texting only there is no off button so they never go away! You can caress them or put them on the bottom of the bird cage. Try to do that with a text message! I knooow....what a concept. Maybe it'll catch on.
I send these postcards out to you FREE because of a reaction I had last winter to email. It struck me that I love the convenience and ease of email, it is so easy to reconnect or stay connected to people, but there was something missing. After scratching my head and readjusting my shorts several times (I think there may have been a glass of wine or something in there too) it came to me. I decided that it is the artifact of communication that we no longer share. That is, there is no letter to hold in your hand or no picture to look at and feel and have that viscerally tactile sensation that came with getting a letter from a lover or long lost friend, a poem from a high school buddy, or grandma asking what I want for Christmas. Today we only have physical brushes with communication from our creditors, or would be creditors, or political babble. The people we love and our friends only hear from us as disembodied voices on the telephone or as electrons over the internet. I was saddened by the thought of how we have lost something with the dismissal of the artifact and decided to try to do something about it. The best way I knew how was through Images I would create. So in March I began sending the cards out to about 20 people and that has now grown to over 80 now. I send a card once per month. They are my favorite image from the month and usually have something to share of where Dorothy and I currently are at. In a small way I can take all the people I like or care about with me when I am on the road.....and those we connect with along the way. If you get the card enjoy it and feel free to bend, staple, or mutilate. Frame them or use them to clean ear wax or send them on to some one else. Just use them and enjoy them.
If you are NOT on the mailing list and would like to be just click the email button below ( I know - I get the irony) . The body of the email MUST have your PHYSICAL mailing address. The one the guy in the uniform brings your bills to. I don't currently charge for these postcards and will not as long as I can afford to send them out. You CAN make a donation if you like. Just click the DONATE button OR send a donation to:
J W Fulmer
ontheroadphoto
161 Rainbow Drive
#6190
Livingston, Texas
77399
The donation can be anything you feel is appropriate - timeshare weeks, cookies, Canon ink (pixma 221), postcard stamps, Hawaiian cruises or of course money. Please don't send teenagers as I have already exhausted my limited supply of anti-angst on my own!
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Joe W Fulmer:
I attended Cooper School of Art for Photography and Kent State University for Photography & Film Making.
I am An Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and CompTia + Certified as a Technical Trainer. I am available to teach photographic skills and Photoshop one-on-one or in small groups. Very reasonable rates (Got a place to plug in my RV? We got a Class!!) Contact me to see if I can be in your area of the country or to arrange something.
My current projects are Portraits of People and their vehicles (Bikers, RV'ers. Boaters, etc) and American Road Sights. If you see me ontheroad ask me to take your picture!
ontheroadphoto sends out postcards once a month to a set mailing list. These are snail-mail postcards - NOT email. If you would like to be on the mailing list please see the Postcards page to sign up.
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