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For a while I've been buying those 6"x4" Ilford postcard papers and I post them off to people all over the world. I get addresses by periodically making threads on other forums I'm involved with - nothing to do with photography, but of a sort of artistic bent. I also post them to friends who have moved far away.

What I normally do is every time I get a nice neg I just quickly print 4 postcards. I then choose 4 addresses by random and off they go. My drive here is three-fold:

* To make people more aware of film and darkroom prints.

* To show how much better a print is than an image on a computer screen.

* It's fun

I've had a lot of nice feedback from doing this, lots of questions about my technique and even one person who is now developing their own film and planning a darkroom.

Maybe you could do this too.

It's fairly cheap, takes very little time, and is a nice way of promoting film without getting on everyone's nerves by going on about how bad digital is. It's positive and people really do seem to like the postcards.

I only wish Kodak or Fuji made colour postcard paper!
 
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One of my postcard contacts told me when he was in college his professor used to print huge photos and then cut them up into little postcards. One-by-one they'd be posted to the same person who would have to wait before the final picture emerged...
 

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