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11 October 2012

Etsy is Artistic, Seasonal and Saturated

Saturation is certainly a problem. The site offers more than 305,000 items in the photography section of its art category in forms that range from abstract to TTV, a format in which pictures are taken with one camera shooting through the viewfinder of another. Shoppers on the site are said to buy according to the seasons, with winter-themed photos selling as the temperatures drop and beach photos moving best in the summer. In October, for example, Falso sold this autumnal image of a squirrel in a pine tree. The self-taught photographer has also found that her desk calendars are currently selling well as customers start to look for extensions to their 2011 calendars.

Whimsy is What Sells

It’s the travel images though that are among the most surprising year-round choices. Georgia Fowler has been shooting seriously since 2007 and travels extensively. She’s lived in five countries and is currently based in France. Fowler was able to sell this image of a French menu board within hours of listing it on the site.

But that was unusual and Fowler has only sold a few images on the site since she started selling photography there in May 2011. Most of her store offers landscape images of France, she points out, shots that are attractive and artistic but which have little connection to a particular place let alone one as well known as the French capital.



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