I am very excited to annouce early access pricing, starting with this Featured Photo of the month. If this is a hit, it will extend to other new releases. To keep it short and to the point, this is a massive discount compared to my general pricing, bordering on ludicrous when looking at larger mounted prints. This is not a completely selfless act, as I would like to see more sales, and more importantly guage which prints people like with a wider access program.
I realize my photography is very high end, and thus priced accordingly, but the reality that I myself can’t afford most of my own works never set well with me, especially because it means that my works are only available to a small fraction of people, particularly in this time when so many of us are struggling. I did my best to make these prices as low as possible and even added a couple smaller print sizes than usual to really try to open this up to art lovers on a tight budget.
I realize that these are still not priced as cheap as many print to order sites, but with this comes my intent. My intent has always been to share my art on high quality materials, because there is a world of difference between seeing works on slightly above standard photo papers, and true archival papers, as there is a huge difference between cheap acrylic, and high quality thick acrylic. The same goes for Metal, Canvas and framing. All materials used in printing and mounting my images are of the highest quality, and cost to me is more than most may imagine. Yes my standard pricing equates to pretty nice profit for me if you strictly look at price of materials, but the unseen cost beyond materials, is extreme time and effort in travel, creation and processing my images to make them stand out in a saturated world of “content creators”. I truly believe my photos are more than a nice thing to hang on a wall. They are intended to breathe light, color and some warmth of soul into spaces. I want to heal with imagery of places and subjects that heal me..
This photo amazingly escaped my attention until early October 2025, yet is ironically representitive of why.
When I visit the Snow Monkeys or really any nature spot for my photography I am often in a sort of dream state. Many of the images I capture are in the moment with little to no planning, I see a feeling in the light, the color, the subject, and at this moment I feel a wave of energy as I focus my lens and shift with the eb and flow until an angle that resonates with me is found.. It truly feels similar to dreaming not only visually but in the sense that there is a sort of etheral heaviness like I am falling asleep and falling into the image in my view finder. This phenomenom extends even to the extent that sometimes just as I am pressing the shutter I instictively want to close my eyes, and have to gently remind myself that they are necessary to maintain my framing of the image.. or are they?
All photos by T. Mellon, The artist behind all aspects of filmstudiojapan.com
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