{"id":102,"date":"2007-05-26T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/first-sale\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:28:36","slug":"first-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/first-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"First Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in grade 5 and in Alberta you may get to see one of my photos in your social studies text book.<\/p>\n<p>Several months ago I was approached by a company in Canada that wanted to use an image of mine for a school book, &#8220;Voices of Canada&#8221;. I was a bit surprised.. I didn&#8217;t even consider it a good photo.. it was a photo of my beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tantramarmarsh.com\/\">Tantramar Marshes<\/a>, but not one of my favorites. Anyway, they found it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstonephotography.com\/\">photography site<\/a> and wanted to use it. So I scratched my head for a few hours to figure out what to charge. &#8220;If I charge too much she won&#8217;t buy, too little and and I would be showing how little I know and selling myself short..&#8221; After much thought and discussion with a few friends I made an offer and they took it! We just received the cheque last week.<\/p>\n<p>If you see one of the 42,000 copies of this book around, please rip out the page with my photo and send it to me.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/photography\/marsh2\/marsh45.htm\">Early Morning Mist<\/a>, my first sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tantramarphoto.com\/\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 460px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/photography\/marsh2\/images\/Picture276.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in grade 5 and in Alberta you may get to see one of my photos in your social studies text book. Several months ago I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ep3x-1E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}