Hi Eleanor. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as the situations arises where the client is in Canada. So far, someone in the US bought a 24X36" print. I already had the client before I signed up for this service. They seemed quite satisfied and even the basic UPS, if domestic within the US, is surprisingly fast.
On a somewhat unrelated issue, one of the artists using the service raked me over the coals about my archerfish image: made for a good laugh that I thought I'd share here. Every other unsolicited commentary from the other users was of a positive nature. But I decided a few months ago to never post an image for critique here or elsewhere. Why? That's a subject for another thread. In the case below, it is almost comical how negativity can just seek you out.
"Hi Scott
I am an amateur photographer myself and also a biologist who studies archerfish. I came across your photo today and was dissappointed by the fact that your photo is severely doctored/modified. If you want to make your 'artwork' more realistic you need to move your archerfish closer to the surface as the mouth breaks the surface when they spit.
Cheers"
my response:
"Before you send out the lynch mob, check out this series of earlier images from my set-up. The position relative to the surface during spitting appears to vary with the size of the fish, the point in time during the spit that the image is captured and a number of other variables that I cannot quite discern even by looking at thousands of takes that I have in my files. Here's a few that I pulled to illustrate how the stream can continue to flow even if the mouth is no longer breached. Particularly DSC_2736: imagine how much trouble I must have went through to cleverly move the fish around in a shot with a clipped fish in the corner and a filthy aquarium window, just to carry on the facade of inaccurately spitting archerfish positions. What you are seeing there is one fish at the beginning or end of its spitting cycle and another mid-cycle. Is it not conceivable that thrust of the water can exert an equal and opposite force against the fish's buoyancy force, thereby pushing him downwards during the spitting? Look at Stephen Dalton's famous image where the fish is just barely breaching the surface. You can also note that the stream is very thin at the bottom indicating that the fish was at the end of its squirt and so there would be no more 'recoil' to push against buoyancy and drop him a fraction of an inch below the breach position. But, in my image, the fish is still in mid stream and hence being forced back from the recoil.
I am surprised the accusatory stance amateur photogs seem to take on when they think they've 'done the research'. I can assure you that the original image is real and accurately represents the position of the fish during the spitting cycle for that fish under those circumstances. Maybe you can include these new revelations in your post-doc work.
"
Here's the image he/she was refering to
My second biggest sale was to someone in England, so it's probably just as easy to send from down under then from the US.
Hopefully you were able to extract your foot from your mouth, or keyboard in this case, without too much trouble. 