About Us
Langley PhotoWerx provides digital photography services for many occasions and needs. From food and beverage or other product shots, to head-shot portraits, and everything in between, (excluding weddings). In addition, we offer original digital imagery artwork of landscapes, outdoor & wildlife scenes as well as commissioned photographic & digital imagery services. (Scan and restore older photos, etc.)
How We Got Started
A lifelong avocation is now a vocation.
The products and services we offer
Recommendations Received (5)
"Thom has an eye for the local beauty that is the many differing terrains of Colorado. Then you..."
Read more
"Thom has an eye for the local beauty that is the many differing terrains of Colorado. Then you add to that the fact that you always leave Thom’s presence feeling smarter. Great to work with in any respect. Passion is at the forfeiting of anything he does. "
"Thom has an open, and friendly personality, which enhances his photography. Easy to work with,..."
Read more
"Thom has an open, and friendly personality, which enhances his photography. Easy to work with, reliable and Great Pictures!"
Products & Services
Original fine art landscape, outdoor, or wildlife prints on multiple substrates (e.g. - paper, metal, gallery wrap canvas, etc.) Commissions accepted.
Food and Beverage / Products / Real Estate / Architectural / Landscape / Garden/Sports / Classic Autos / Pets / Equestrian
Also selling outdoor ...
Gallery
Recommendations Given (21)
"Scott's track record is excellent. He is a proven leader in the development and implementation of..."
Read more
"Scott's track record is excellent. He is a proven leader in the development and implementation of integrated Marketing Sales solutions that work in the real world, where the rubber meets the road."
"Great local spot. Christine is at least among the first, if not the very first, female brewery..."
Read more
"Great local spot. Christine is at least among the first, if not the very first, female brewery owners in the State, and one of only a handful across the country. The beers are tremendous, the food is excellent, service is always top notch. So, no surprise that the place is growing with lots of preplanned and social events. Christine is someone you should get to know, and Kokopelli is a great place to go.
"
Recent Activity
I just try to make sure my last client was thrilled with the outcome of our interaction and let them and their chatter secure my next client for me.
(more)
I just try to make sure my last client was thrilled with the outcome of our interaction and let them and their chatter secure my next client for me.
The best innovations typically result from a mash-up of ideas and knowledge. Meeting with more people, collecting more points of view, allows you to combine elements of all of that into solutions that work for you in a way that serves your approach to your business.
(more)
The best innovations typically result from a mash-up of ideas and knowledge. Meeting with more people, collecting more points of view, allows you to combine elements of all of that into solutions that work for you in a way that serves your approach to your business.
More customers, more inquiries, no pricing power.
(more)
More customers, more inquiries, no pricing power.
After decades of trying to convince a corporation how I think things ought to be done, it is an opportunity to test those ideas for applicability in the marketplace. To see if what I believe to be valuable is in fact valuable to others. It keeps you more engaged because they are your ideas,...
(more)
After decades of trying to convince a corporation how I think things ought to be done, it is an opportunity to test those ideas for applicability in the marketplace. To see if what I believe to be valuable is in fact valuable to others. It keeps you more engaged because they are your ideas, things that you are passionate about, that you are implementing. It can give you a few lumps when the market metes out lessons as well. But life=learning in my universe. If you're done learning: you're done living.
While i might have chosen different words than Jeff Poole used to explain the emerging dynamic as I see it, I do believe his sense of the direction of things is spot on. I have actually discontinued my website as none of my paying business was coming to me via that platform EXCEPT when I used it...
(more)
While i might have chosen different words than Jeff Poole used to explain the emerging dynamic as I see it, I do believe his sense of the direction of things is spot on. I have actually discontinued my website as none of my paying business was coming to me via that platform EXCEPT when I used it as a blog repository and posted the blog contents to social media outlets under my Langley Photowerx brand. The social media connectors are the new public square both personally and commercially. Globally accessible websites are likely unnecessary for a business that functions in a much more local fashion. As a photographer, who's "potential" market for digitally transmitted products is global, my business remains largely local - driven by interpersonal relationships and recommendations. Which is how my clients, (and I), seem to prefer it. Your online marketing needs to focus almost exclusively on an integrated social media platform with multiple outlet channels, (e.g. - facebook + instagram). You can focus your ads better, you gain more meaningful insights to your local market, and you connect yourself, to your work, while still drawing a bright enough line between them that people can tell which one they are talking too in any particular conversation. The "SEO" is built into the platform. You need to focus on becoming a WHIZ at social media. Websites utility are, for me, limited to static information libraries and wiki's. Social is the new marketing platform.
Do you have a late fee policy? The bigger (in dollar terms) the client, the longer the terms typically, especially if you are not gigging, but are under extended contract. When I worked in the bowels of big industry, any marketing agency we hired had to sign a contract with 180 days terms of...
(more)
Do you have a late fee policy? The bigger (in dollar terms) the client, the longer the terms typically, especially if you are not gigging, but are under extended contract. When I worked in the bowels of big industry, any marketing agency we hired had to sign a contract with 180 days terms of payment. If you can afford to run a business for 6 mos. without getting paid for your work, I applaud you, I can't. It's just business at the end of the day, your contract should stipulate payment terms and late fees, your invoices should include them. Ask them if you can see their contract for their clients and emulate the terms they use. If they argue against that, they're essentially saying they are doing it wrong.
Accounting and book-keeping.
(more)
Accounting and book-keeping.
For small spaces you can usually try to strike up a relationship with the merchant in the space if you are so inclined. They are usually very busy and in the main have a "don't call us,... we'll call you", demeanor. For larger ones, that market has largely been walled off by intermediaries. "Art...
(more)
For small spaces you can usually try to strike up a relationship with the merchant in the space if you are so inclined. They are usually very busy and in the main have a "don't call us,... we'll call you", demeanor. For larger ones, that market has largely been walled off by intermediaries. "Art & Design" consultants and Architectural firms. Unless otherwise instructed by their client, they typically already have a prescreened & cooperative stable of "art" product providers whose ranks are typically not dominated by local artists. Or they simply buy from stock sites. Getting on their "most favored artist" list is primarily a function of finding what it is that impresses them enough to add you to the list, then shooting or creating what they tell you they want. It's more like work, less like creative art. Although it is work of the type that traditionally had been done on commission, the way one would contract with any other provider. It pays, but you're a production contractor working at the direction of your patron. But typically an "artist" works first as an entirely creative endeavor, then hopes for a sale to some buyer, somewhere. Working for the "Business Space Art & Design" firm is more like being a Plumber or landscaper, where your role is to be contracted to complete a prescribed job with defined parameters. It's always been a funny market because many artists are driven by their desire to create what they want, others create a product and nothing is done until someone is willing and signed up to pay, and then you create what your told to create. It has been my experience that "Art & Design" consultants like the latter type much better than the former.
It has been my experience that there is certainly a market for higher quality images for just about every channel you can think of, but dealing with a generation, (and a half), that have grown up carrying around a camera in the pocket all the time has degraded the perceived value of images. I'm...
(more)
It has been my experience that there is certainly a market for higher quality images for just about every channel you can think of, but dealing with a generation, (and a half), that have grown up carrying around a camera in the pocket all the time has degraded the perceived value of images. I'm okay with that, because many of those images don't have a great deal of economic value as images, just ask the folks that use them. But it has bred a logic paradigm that "photos" are free. So it just takes a bit more patience I think, to help folks understand, and a portfolio to demonstrate the difference being like that between dash cam and live sports broadcast. Dash-cam video still looks like dash cam video on an OLED 5G television. So it's not the resolution of the playback device that determines the quality of the imagery. I sell a lot of digital file imagery for use on the web. When you have to degrade the quality of the image to make it acceptable for the display medium, the initial quality of forming the image is even MORE important. That's an value I point out to clients often, but they have to be savvy clients. If images are important to what they do to generate revenue, they usually are a bit more savvy than average. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback today. I found it enlightening and educational. Great Group!
