We wish but have no courage

As a photographer, one of the things I constantly fret about is whether I'm pricing my prints right. Is it too high, too low, just about right? As any person looking to improve themselves in their field should do, I ask this of other photographers all the time. One answer stood above all the rest, specifically for fine art photos.

The gentleman I asked about the subject gave a story. Imagine selling fine art prints in an art show. Your first year, you price them at 20 dollars each, find no genuine interest. The next year, you attend the same show, but price your work at 200 or 300 dollars each. For some strange reason, people automatically assume that a higher price indicates a higher value, and you have more sales. Yes, having a price reflect inherent value. That is the way things should be, but it is certainly not the way things really work.

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To be one in joy, sorrow and every desire
To build a happy family did they aspire?
And now why do their spirits want to retire?

Mechanical action with false surrender
Brooding over the unfulfilled desire
Carrying atom for the day entire
To explode a reason doesn’t require

Living with agony, longing to be one
Initiating a move to test if it is a fun
Wooing hidden careful to be unseen

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