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always interesting to me when i see how differently each photographer experiences the same place as new sims pop up people will go explore and photograph and their photographs will inspire me to go to the same place and explore sometimes though even though i find other people s photos beautiful and amazing when i visit the same sim i m hard pressed to find anything i want to photograph myself nothing wrong with that of course different strokes for different folks and all that but it is often frustrating because i have limited time to explore these days so visiting some place without taking any photos is an aggravation i don t need for instance yesterday i had some free time to explore so i did i visited probably 12 different sims of those 12 5 were a bust i could tell immediately upon landing they just weren t for me again this is not to say that there was anything wrong with these sims just that they weren t something i was interested in photographing of the 7 left i wandered around 2 of them hunting for something to shoot nothing caught my eye so i left without taking any photos so down to 5 i took a few photos at 2 of them but once i had time to sit down and look at the photos i didn t really like any of them that left 3 sims that i actually took photos of the first sim i visited was amazing and i took a load of photographs maybe that s why some of the next ones were disappointing however i persevered and ended up with some good shots i will be sharing here and on flickr if you ve visited any fabulous sims lately please share share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading increased marketplace fees 01 02 2020 kat feldragonne 3 comments image source marketplace secondlife com at the beginning of every month i print out a report from my small marketplace store i have small items for sale rugs particles i ve made for a routine etc most of the items i have run between 5l 15l i m not looking to make a living just make back a few l here and there to help defray some of the costs of sl a few months ago ll announced that they would be raising the fees charged by marketplace the commission they charge was raised from 5 to 10 at the time there was some outcry by creators because of course this will affect their bottom lines which for some is already pretty marginal i just shrugged my shoulders because what can you do if i want to sell on the marketplace i have to abide by their rules if i don t like them i don t have to use the marketplace i could sell in world only or just not sell at all since my mp income is just extra for me and pretty small i decided to just wait and see honestly i d forgotten all about it until i logged in to download my sales reports i noticed as i was working that my 5l items had a 1l commission which is unusual because for the last however many years if i sold a 5l item i got the whole 5l the commission was rounded down i think so i only had commission taken out if the item was 10l or more this month however well december pretty much every item i sold had commission taken out which again i understand their mp their rules however it made a pretty significant difference in my own income which i hadn t expected for most of 2019 my store averaged 850l in sales income the commission fees for most months averaged 50l for december my sales income was only 642l which is a low month lower than usual but not alarmingly so however when i looked at the commissions there was a significant difference the commission fees i paid in december were 103l on the surface that tracks if i normally pay around 50l in fees 100l in fees with the doubling of the commission fee accounts for that the kicker is that i actually made less in sales than i usually do so if i had made my average 850l in sales income my commission fees would have been even more than the 100l which means that while ll may have only doubled the commission fee from 5 to 10 in effect they will likely collect more than that i still plan to sell on mp and i don t plan to change my current prices however i will be keeping a closer eye on the fees in the coming months i don t pay for any extra advertising on mp so my only fees are the commissions as i said i don t plan to make changes but for large stores and or people who make their living from sl this seemingly small change may have a ripple effect as people discover exactly what impact it has on their income some creators have already stated that they will raise mp prices close their mp store or leave sl altogether 2020 may be interesting share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading flickr in trouble 12 23 2019 kat feldragonne 2 comments i was browsing through the blogs i follow and saw a post about trouble in flickr land so i hopped on over to flickr to find out what s going on i have a love hate relationship with flickr i ve always hated yahoo and when they owned flickr i was very hesitant to sign up especially since they required a phone number i finally bit the bullet and signed up then a year or so ago smugmug bought flickr yay because then i wouldn t have to deal with yahoo or so i thought i missed the window to migrate off of my yahoo account and i still haven t gotten around to changing it now it appears that the old saying is true there s no such thing as a free lunch i wish my kids understood this they are genz ers or the igen as they are sometimes called they think there s an app for everything a free app and if there isn t there should be i ve explained about the costs of running a business and the perils of handing over your personal data just to get a free app but most of the time it falls on deaf ears anyway it appears smugmug has discovered that while people love flickr lots of people don t want to pay for it which understandably makes it difficult to keep flickr afloat when smugmug initially bought flickr they made some changes which included that free account holders would be limited in the number of photos they could upload fine with me i just deleted a bunch of old photos to put myself under the limit i keep all my photos saved on my own external hard drive anyway so it wasn t like i was losing anything since i ve not been in world as much i haven t had as many photos to upload anyway i do understand smugmug s dilemma they want to keep flickr going but it takes time and effort and money to do that i m just not sure i use flickr enough to justify paying for the service i am naturally resistant to subscription services i don t use netflix hulu spotify adobe cc or anything like that if i want something i want to purchase it own it hold it in my hot little hands which is why i m still using my photoshop cs6 the last version you could purchase it remains to be seen whether flickr manages to convince enough people to purchase pro subscriptions to keep it afloat share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading furillen 11 22 2019 11 13 2019 kat feldragonne furillen is a sim i ve visited before but it is constantly being reinvented one constant however is that it s always an amazing place to take photographs and this iteration is no exception it is a wintery bleak landscape but it is easy to lose yourself in the grandeur of the scenery these trees seem to touch the sky as you stand underneath there are a lot of places to sit and reflect in furillen including this eclectic collection of chairs near the edge of the water i can almost smell the salt on the air and feel the spray on my face this seemingly abandoned caravan looks so lonely underneath the bare branches of the tree yet somehow also welcoming i m always fascinated by which pieces of real life make it into sim design these utility poles are a great example of things that add realism to the sim things we see every day but don t even think about anymore judging by the multitude of pics i ve seen on flickr many other sl ers find furillen as fascinating as i did when taking photos i often spend quite a bit of time playing around with windlights not so here the region windlight seemed perfect for the sim and i couldn t find anything i thought looked better so if you re ready to spend a bit of time wandering in the cold and snow make sure to add furillen to your travel list share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading the last dove 11 18 2019 11 13 2019 kat feldragonne after seeing lots of pictures of this sim on flickr i added the last dove to my list of sims to visit as a resident of a very rural town and a very rural state in many ways this sim feels like home you can almost smell the wood smoke and feel the dust coating your face as you travel across the bridge into the town proper i love how the building on the left has a large board propping up the signage facade of the building like you re walking onto the set of an old spaghetti western i think this house shack is one i pass on my way to work every day including the chickens in the road i have to dodge we don t have longhorns where i live but we do have plenty of cows and bulls a long ago piece of advice i received if you find yourself in a field with a cow or a bull and you don t know the difference run i don t know if it s true or not but thankfully i ve never had to worry about it there s a lot to see at the last dove so hit that tp button and go see for yourself share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading vuk and author s point 11 13 2019 11 12 2019 kat feldragonne this fall i made a decision that i would spend more time in sl i wanted to explore practice my photography and just generally have fun however given my almost year long hiatus from sl i m finding it hard to work the time for it back into my life once i wasn t spending time daily in sl that time of course got filled up with other things rl things and it s been difficult to carve out that time in sl again much as i want to because things in rl take precedence once school started back up i thought i would have more free time but i m discovering i have less i haven t taken on any extra commitments so i m hard pressed to explain why my free time is suddenly at such a premium in any case i do want to spend more time in sl so i m going to have to figure out how to do that i did manage to spend a little time exploring last week visiting some sims that i discovered via flickr it s funny how some sims make me want to take a photo of everything and other sims i find myself searching for something to take a photo of different strokes for different folks i guess so although i didn t get a lot of photographs of some sims they are still worth visiting vuk was one such sim i did take some photos but i m still experimenting with my photography and i ended up with only one photo i felt was worth sharing i loved the windlight on this sim grey and hazy but it fit the landscape very well i also spent some time exploring author s point but i was rushed and i only took one photo when i came back to look at them for editing ugh i was rushing and it clearly showed however the sim is definitely still worth exploring so head on over and check it out for yourself share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading inventory bloat thanks bom 11 08 2019 11 06 2019 kat feldragonne who has the biggest inventory now that bakes on mesh bom has hit the grid things have changed while i am excited for all the old and new stuff i can now wear easily with bom and without faffing with a zillion appliers i am not excited about the inventory bloat i see headed my way unless you re an old sl er from way back like me you may not remember how all the system layers worked but we never had enough of them when mesh bodies hit the grid suddenly everything became appliers huds with whatever you needed to wear apply loaded into them so instead of 20 thongs in 20 colors in my inventory i had one mesh thong and hud that would let me change it into 20 different colors 20 items vs 2 items was a blessing for my inventory but now that system layers are back with bom i can easily see my inventory creeping up every time i buy something because some people will want the system layers but others will still want the appliers so creators will provide them all who doesn t want to keep their customers happy but that means i could end up with 24 items the 20 bom system layers in different colors and the mesh item and the hud applier i may have to become ruthless when it comes to new purchases i m still on the fence about unboxing my old inventory stuff as well i mean while it s great that i can wear a skin i purchased in 2013 do i really want to is it worth spending the time unboxing everything just to see when i box something up in rl my rule is that i haven t needed it in 6 months or longer it goes it clearly wasn t something i needed there are exceptions of course seasonal clothing and decorations things like that but since my sl inventory is in theory infinite maybe they can just stay in boxes for now and i can wait another 5 years for a trip down memory lane we ll see in the meantime i definitely have some purging to do if you need tips for managing your own inventory i ve written some tips and tricks here it s still useful information share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit more 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