2012.06.25
Buy your favorite photo
Photos like this are now available for purchase at roanoke.mycapture.com.
Looking for a gift? Or maybe you love a photo you’ve seen by a Roanoke Times photographer. We have good news … now you can request and purchase many of the photos that you see in the pages of The Roanoke Times and throughout roanoke.com.
Visit roanoke.mycapture.com and you’ll find some select albums and favorite front pages that are available for purchase as reprints or you can order a mug or magnet with the photo on it.
We just set up the photo store a few weeks ago, so we’re still stocking it, but you’ll already find several photos from our 125th anniversary photo exhibit and this year’s All Timesland pages. You can also easily request a photo, and as long as it is a Roanoke Times photo (not one that a user has submitted), we will upload it to the system for you to purchase.
Check out the galleries and photo gift options.
To request a photo or front page be added to the gallery for purchase, click “Can’t find a photo” link on the left and complete the form.
This is pretty cool. You know what else would be nice: whenever you post a picture on the site, you could click on the picture and it would go full-size, rather than just open the same picture in the window or another tab.
I remember when the plane crashed at the UPS a couple years ago, I really wanted to see a full version up close, and only after some prodding did they actually put a full-size photo up (2-3megapixel). In this world of high bandwidth and 8-15 Megapixel cameras, I think it shouldn’t be too difficult to see a high-res photo from time to time without it affecting bandwidth too terribly.
It also might incline me to purchase a photo if I can see it in more detail!
Comment by scott — June 25, 2012 @ 11:58 am
Wow. Selling 8 x 10 photos for $25 in an age when nearly everyone has an 8+ MP camera in their pocket. I suppose working in the black and white world of the newspaper one forgets this is 2012
Comment by Ernie — June 26, 2012 @ 8:25 am
The photo thing is actually pretty neat, I’m sure some of the photos from the past would be worthwhile to purchase…especially for local history buffs, and some of the new ones are pretty neat too. The types of pictures I’d purchase are ones I could not take myself, because my phone has an HD camera as does my wife’s phone, and we have a fairly nice digital camera and conventional 35 mm SLR camera at home. The technology being packed into smartphones nowadays is really going to make it hard for stand-alone devices to hold up…like cameras, e-readers, mp3 players, golf sky caddies, etc…since either free or very low-cost apps are available on them that do just as good, if not better.
That all said, I wanted to throw out one final posting comment/concern for the staff re-working the RT site. It has to do with the Burgs site, and a major annoyance I’ve had that they seem to have no interest in looking at. Aside from the fact that they clutter their ‘news’ stream with photos of people’s dogs (really? I mean, really?), they also have this penchant for having news stream posts about NRV news that doesn’t even contain the actual articles…just a 1-2 sentence short and a link back to the RT website. Sometimes, like today’s breaking news on the Claytor Lake drowning…there isn’t even a summary…just a link and that’s it.
Why on earth even bother with The Burgs site if 75-80% of the time someone clicks a link to a story purported to be on their site, they have to click a second link to get to the actual story?! Ever since the change was made, we’ve ditched the RT paper for the Southwest Times (they actually cover our news, not just meth lab busts), and I go to the Burgs site probably 95% less than when it was the Current.
And after having a comment get deleted because I questioned why they kept posting ‘news’ articles that weren’t even on their own site but linked elsewhere, I think I’m just flat done. Their re-fresh has been an abysmal failure in my opinion, and it’s not worth fooling with. Combined with the general level of sluggishness on fresh blog material (or even simple updates) for most of the blogs here, and well, there’s not much of a compelling reason to come to the site any longer. Throw in the trolls on a couple blogs who make it difficult to enjoy them, and I’ve no longer a need or desire to frequent these pages.
Good luck with the continued work to re-do the website, I hope it serves existing and future customers in a manner deserving.
Comment by Other John — June 26, 2012 @ 11:39 am
I was so excited when I saw these photos advertised in The Roanoke TImes. I have been looking for a certain shot of The Mill Mountain Star for a couple of weeks now. It will be a Christmas gift for a niece that now lives in Colorado.
What I have found in town has not quite been what I wanted. All of the 8 X 10s I have found have been $10 which i felt was a fair price. I finally found a photo that I really like on this site but the cost is prohibitive. I also have to have it matted and shipped out of state.
If this photo had been priced at $10 or $15 I would have ordered it tonight. So disappointing……………. I’ll have to keep on looking.
Comment by J. C. Foster — December 10, 2012 @ 9:10 pm