Gallery Wraps

Yesterday I was on the computer and telephone all day until 4:00 p.m.!  But I got a lot done for sure.  After researching several gallery wrap sites, I ended up going with Big Canvas Prints out of Madison, Wisconsin!  I liked the fact that they offered mirror image wrap v. stretching the photo to cover the edges.  With the mirror wrap you don't lose any of the photographic image.  The really hard part was selecting the images to have done.  That took about an hour.  But now I've selected numerous and put them in a separate file labeled Gallery Wraps for future use.  I had also checked out Mpix and Simply Color Lab that I originally figured I would be using one of them.  Simply Color wanted too much personal info as though I was a BIG business.  Mpix's prices were comparable to the other two.  But again, I liked the fact that Big Canvas offered the mirror wrap, AND I was able to talk to a 'live' person who was very polite and shared information without making me feel inadequate, as I'm not even close to a truly knowledgeable digital photographer.  I ordered two wraps at the 16x24 size, glossy finish.  She thought I would be able to receive them by next Monday, which is good since that's when they hang the new art work in the gallery.  I hope I can reserve the space!

Talk about good customer service, I had also ordered my Epson ink from Freestyle and went for the 2-day delivery.  They called me and said they wouldn't be charging me the 'extra' fee since I'm already in the 2-day delivery area!!  Now that was really great customer service.  They could have kept the fee and I wouldn't have known any difference!  Good job Freestyle!  Thank you!

When I got done with all the ordering, I was on the Internet adding the High Hand Gallery's Artful Sundays calendar for the year on the TheLoomisNews website.  I'm not done though, as I got kind of tired.  I got up to July and quit.  I also made numerous phone calls to musicians trying to book them for our events for the year.

Re-reading the contest rules for the No Hands Bridge 100 year event, only two entries per person.  So I won't have to worry about the color digital one I was considering.  I'm just going to enter my darkroom print at 11x14, and my photo transfer at 8x10.  Done!