Best wishes for you all in 2020 for a creative New Year! In years past following my look back at what occurred over the past year is this; my article about my outlook for what might lie ahead. Like any good project manager I think setting some goals to accomplish is neccessary to set your... Continue Reading →
Christmas card photo – 2019
The holiday season is upon us again and is time for me to choose a photograph for our annal Christmas Card & Season's Greetings. Last year I found a really nice photograph for our Christmas card that I had captured when we were earlier in Vail Colorado that seemed well suited, and which was well... Continue Reading →
Book Gifts for 2019 Holidays
For those who are looking for a nice last minute holiday gift, I have a few potential books for you to consider; a really great gift idea for someone special who really enjoy a small edition book object to read and treasure. Good news: any of these books can be quickly arranged to be delivered... Continue Reading →
Fabrik Projects 2019 Holiday exhibition
The gallery just sent me a photo of my hanging Memory Pods mini-exhibition during their Holiday Group exhibit. I will have to admit that there appears to be some odd pinkish lighting on the right side of this photo, but I am guessing it probably has something to do with some holiday lighting that is... Continue Reading →
Book workshop with Medium – March 2020
I am very happy to announce my next Developing a Creative Book workshop with Medium Photo for March, 19-22, 2020. The slight change for the workshop is with all of the great feedback from those who have attended is a consensus that two days was just toooo intense for the material we needed to cover.... Continue Reading →
Canon Pro-2100 – My Field of Dreams
From the heart warming movie Field of Dreams; if you build a (baseball) fields, they will come. Thus the idea behind my purchase earlier this week of a brand-spanking new 24" Canon Pro-2100 printer. If I make bigger prints, I will then sell these! Up till now I mainly sell 16 x 20" prints (on... Continue Reading →
How effective is Social Media for an Artist?
I have been wondering a lot about the relevances of social media for myself and other artists, and perhaps more specifically about staying on Facebook/Instagram. First, the basic question, why use social media (e.g. Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, etc) by an artist? For an established artist who has multiple galleries that represent them, constant demand for exhibitions,... Continue Reading →
Gardening For Ordnance – exploring the concept with expired film
My recent batches of expired 120 film that I am using for my Gardening For Ordnance project has been providing some pretty drastic visual effects. "Off-color" transparencies would be an understatement. For last week's unaltered scanned film, here, the resulting image really did not have much yellow left in the film. The resulting visually off-kilter... Continue Reading →
More Expired film evaluations – Fence Line
Yesterday I took a day trip down to San Diego to meet up with some of my editorial and operational team at the Medium Festival. Primarily we were there to meet up with the documentary photographer Louie Palu for an interview I have in process for publication with PhotoBook Journal. Okay, we were also interested in... Continue Reading →
Expired Film & Serendipity
Pease be advised: Do not try to adjust your monitor! The colors you are looking at are indeed "unique". One of the interesting aspects of using expired 120 film is not knowing what might come back from the processing laboratory. Sometimes, as with the Pampas Grass photograph that I had discussed earlier this week, most... Continue Reading →