I don’t normally do this but I thought the situation warranted that an exception be made. If you’ve been around this blog longer than about 5 minutes, you know that I am also the owner of a site called Crafty Tips. Crafty Tips is a site that indexes and shares some of the best websites and businesses that offer free projects, patterns for sale and handmade finished items for sale.

Part of the challenge of running the site is keeping it from getting too overly broad. Some time ago I created the Art Photography category. The idea behind the category is to showcase photographers who specialize in taking photographs that are used as art as opposed to portraits and commercial images. I had hesitated doing so because I know there are multitudes of general photography websites and that there is at least one huge site similar to mine that exclusively catalogs photography-oriented websites.

So, why am I telling you all that? Well, one of my concerns was that every person who owned a site related to photography would submit to my site and that one category would grow out of proportion to the rest of the site. So far that hasn’t happened, much to my great relief. I dreaded writing that email to someone with a wonderful photography site telling them that I was not going to accept their listing because it wasn’t “arty” enough. Well, this week it finally happened.

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