Water Sprite

About Water Sprite

Water Sprite is my passion project. I take photos, write about my travels, and generally geek (privately!) about photography and web stuff. But no-one knows about me or what I do. My friends and (day job) work colleagues all tell me I'm a great photographer and that my writing is fun, but how do I get people to notice my work in the giant disorganised mess that is the Internet? I've had an internet presence for 3 years, and I've sold.... 1 product to a person I didn't already know. And while I'm glad they liked it enough to spend real money on it, it wasn't even some of my good work!

So, to justify my considerable expenses in travelling and buying camera gear, I have decided to get out of my shell and try selling actual real products, in person, to actual real people.

What I'm aiming to do

I am setting up a market stall. I'll start, I think, with the Hall Markets and see how it goes. I may expand to a few other markets in the future, at least on an occasional basis.

I will buy the marque and associated hardware. I have priced it, and a budget-but-reasonable marque with three walls, plus a transportable table and suitable stuff to keep a marque on the ground in windy weather will set me back about $500. Display hardware will be another $100 - $150 in initial expense (and more required as the range expands). 

What I am asking for is funding for the initial product range. $500 will get me a very basic set of picture cards in A4 and A5 sizes. I'm proposing 4 images in A5 format and 1 in A4 format. Stretch goals will mean more products.

All cards will be full colour, full coverage prints on at least 250gsm semi-gloss card. The backs will feature information about the photo and Water Sprite, and on the A4 cards in particular may feature minatures of other images.

Rewards

All rewards from this fundraiser will be posted to the recipient at the address you provide once the printing is done - probably late September. Note that shipping costs are extra to the rewards costs - sorry, but shipping is too expensive for me to wear that cost. On the bright side, I can ship almost anywhere in the world for the listed price. Please select the correct price range though - I am subsidising these prices slightly, and I will NOT ship products where you have selected the wrong shipping rate.

Products

The initial set of products proposed are:

Initial A4 print - Boathouses by the mouth of Pambula River

A5 Image one: Evening sun on the pier (Stewarts Bay, Tasmania)

A5 Image two: Pink Tulip Drops (Floriade 2024)

A5 Image three: Sunset Tree (Mulligans Flat, Canberra)

A5 Image four: Picnic Train arriving Thirlemere Festival of Steam (2025)

If the stretch goals are looking likely, I'll add images for them and details here.

Contact me

If you want to contact me, you are welcome to use the contact form on my business website (https://watersprite.com.au/). Look down the bottom of the main page and there is a form to fill in. Alternatively, follow me on my socials as listed on this site, and message me from there.

After the fundraiser finishes (if successfully funded), and after rewards have been sent to supporters, the products will also be available through my online shop. That site also has a range of other products available for worldwide delivery.  These products are produced through print-on-demand services, which means I do not have stock on hand of them. It also means that in many cases they are produced locally to you and you don't need to pay for freight from Australia. Please see https://watersprite.shop/

I will front up the $650 or so required for a basic market stall setup. None of the money raised from this fundraiser will go to that.

Both A4 and A5 card prints are close to the same price for a basic print run, at a little over $100. For the sake of this fundraiser, I'm saying $100 neat, and I will pay the extra. That gets a high quality, full colour double-sided print on 250gsm card. The $500 basic target is for 4 x A5 prints, and 1 x A4 print - 5 different images.

Stretch goals:

At $600 I will add another A5 print, and at $700, I'll add another A4 print. At $800 I will add an A3 sized poster (of one of the images already released in smaller format). At $900 I'll add a folded gift card, blank on the inside, suitable for any occassion. If you people are very generous, I'll add some sample canvas and larger posters to the mix, but only if we exceed $1000. I might add rewards for the gift cards if they are starting to look likely, but there will not be rewards for the A3  or larger posters or the canvas. I'm afraid they'll only be available for purchase on my website or at the market stall.