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High resolutions files for use by artists, publications and commercial use.

This is the website via which I sell High Resolutions files for self printing and for more commercial use such as magazines and the corporate world. Most of my customers are artists (the lowest rate) which use my work for their paintings and so on.

Except from the photo’s of this site customers can also order (with specifications of date/time published) photographs that are published on social media such as this site, Instagram (@hermanvanbon) and facebook plus facebook photography page.

The website is divided in several subject related pages such as landscapes, birds, animals and black & white. Ordering via the ‘about’ page or directly to greenc2 -at- me.com with full contact details.

Here a few examples: (click on each picture to see it in full)

Panorama Sunset Van der Byl Mountain

See yesterday’s picture (scroll back to second post below)

In the meantime I figured out via Facebook that not many villagers know about the name.

There is this new Facebook Page

There is this new Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PrivateGalleryNapier/ You may like it. 😉 (and invite your FB-friends to like it too 😀 😀 😀 -Thanks)

In the meantime you can also check this new (still ‘under construction’) wordpress blog: http://privategallerynapier.wordpress.com.

My ego tripped this morning

For what it is worth: one of my images became the banner of the Facebook page Cape Reflections. The administrator of this group wrote a review and that made my day ( 😉 ).

“The banner photograph at the top of the Cape Refections Group Page was the most liked image posted to the page in May as voted for by our members. Congratulations Herman van Bon! Herman is one of our regular contributors. He posts a range of his photographs to our page and it is always exiting to see which way he will point his lens next. Not only are his subjects carefully chosen illustrating a deep interest in nature and people and the world around him but he will often exercise his creative energies further by manipulating the image using a variety of tools available to the digital photographer, some times to very dramatic effect.”

The picture was one of a series of which I published a few in this blog some days ago.

The Jazz Singer

A week ago I published some pictures of a jazz concert on the blog of one of my clients. I only gave myself 90 minutes to select 12 pictures and process plus publish them on the different social media. It took 93 minutes and the blog post alone got within 2 days more than 600 hits according to WordPress statistics; several tweets plus over 120 shares on Facebook. Not too shabby for a new blog (first post end of January).

Anyway I redid one of the pictures; the one of the South African Lady of Jazz: Janet Marshall.

In the Top 3 (???)

Who would have thought that the archive picture of an unfinished wall ended up in the Top 3 of a national (South African) photo competition. Well … I certainly did not.

So I added this announcement to my personal FB-page this morning (including the picture) and suddenly people started to like the picture…..

And than I went into my FB-archives … when I first published this picture on Facebook …. Just 1 like …. Now I wonder with the present likes … is it because of the high ranking in a competition or what????

The ‘Whale’ in the Garden

This is one of the fastest growing succulent plants in our garden. It’s an Adenia spinosa and this caudiciform originates from the Highveld in South Africa somewhere in the area where one of my most faithful followers is nestled. The caudex can grow to approximately 2 meters in diameter. Last year I published an image on Facebook and somebody, who forgot to put her glasses on, thought it was a ‘whale’. Since than we always say that we have two whales in our garden. 😉

“My name is Bon; Herman van Bon”

BTW: Did you already like/follow my Facebook page? (Thanks)

Portfolio

Nothing is as difficult as selecting pictures for your own portfolio. This morning I tried and it resulted in a temporary portfolio. I’m far from satisfied hence the addition ‘temporary‘; it will change from time to time anyway. But it is a start.

In the cause of (beginning) 2014, with newly downloaded Photoshop plug-ins, the character of the pictures/imaginaries will change; recently I already published some trials (see also the ‘Portfolio Imaginaries‘ in the link which opens in a new window). To make a long story short just click here and see for yourself. I don’t expect anybody to follow this new (more or less ‘stationary’) blog but if you have remarks, tips, etc. please write those in the contact form of the opening page. THANK YOU!!!

At the moment I’m having a break on Facebook but without much (only in this blog) advertising the new FB-page (few weeks old) has 38 followers including 4 bloggers …. Within a few weeks I’ll add new pictures (abstracts/imaginaries) to that page. Twitters can follow my (scheduled) tweets via @greencathedral.