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About half a year now I am using Photoshelter to archive my photo’s and power my gallery part of my website. I must say I am very impressed with all the functionality you get for the price you pay. Last month the Photoshelter introduced some new functionality. One of which can be especially interesting for marketing you own work on the Internet. They now offer the possibility to embed a gallery through a Flash-based widget.

If you want to copy this gallery, click the up arrow button in the lower right corner. This reveals the code needed to embed the gallery slideshow widget in your destination of choice.  Once you copy the gallery slideshow widget, anyone can embed the gallery elsewhere. This is part of the virality of the widget, which effectively gives me free marketing.

 American Photographer Vincent Laforet liked this feature so much, he writes: “For years now, I’ve been waiting for someone to take full advantage of the web and to allow photographers to better connect with their audiences. I’ve always found that traditional media rarely offer up a way for photographers to connect directly with their readers/viewers. Photoshelter has just recently released a little widget that allows anyone to embed flash galleries in their (and other people’s) websites. This tool allows photographers to easily share their images - and perhaps to generate some income. In this case - you can simply view the photographs within the widget - and if you’d like, you can purchase a print as well. 

I think this has a tremendous potential - so much so, that I’m going to try to encourage you to embed this gallery into your personal sites (or publications!) by applying all of the profits from these print sales for the next 30 days to a student internship/scholarship…(more…) ”

I like the idea of the scholarship. To help him and a student (although I doubt if my site generates even 1% of the traffic his blog is generating) buy one of his prints. He has a really nice deal for the first picture in his gallery. Of course all my prints are for sale too!

Feel free to copy my gallery anywhere you like.

I really love what I do, especially when it takes me to places like Saint-Tropez.

A very spectacular Ishares Cup with typical English weather in Cowes during Cowes week. Eleven boats, 16 races, four pitch poles, three broken rigs, two major collisions and two broken beams. In the end Alinghi won, Origin second and Holmatro third. Both Oracle boats capsized once. Look at the photos in the Extreme 40’s Ishares Cup gallery. Older events can be viewed in the Event gallery.