Back to Work!

We have just returned from a week's vacation on the coast at Manchester State Beach.  The weather was gorgeous all week - we couldn't have asked for a better trip!  I wasn't real anxious to take pictures as the main purpose of the trip was to relax.  And relax we did.  It was wonderful.  I did manage to capture some images of the coastline at sunset and in the morning as we drove up and down the area.  But, as I said, it wasn't for the photography.  And if you're a photographer, you may know how hard that is sometimes NOT to grab the camera and start clicking away.

While we were there, I received a phone call from someone who had visited the High Hand Gallery.  He was also a photographer.  He started out saying how 'normally' photographers don't really compliment another photographer's works, but he had to call to tell me he thought my color digital prints were outstanding!  Gee, that was nice of him!  Wanted to know what printer and inks I was using.  Of course, I said the Epson R2400 which uses eight archival inks.  Anyway, that was a nice little diversion -- and compliment for me.  These comments and/or compliments from individuals you don't even know is what keeps you going sometimes.

Since we got home late last night I wasn't able to attend the Artists' Reception and Awards Ceremony for the Placer Artists League that I had entered two gelatin silver prints from my Gladding McBean Series.  My photography friend, Jim, emailed me to let me know out of four photographers who had entered the juried show, two received awards -- and we weren't them!  ; (  Whatever!

So I got busy and started looking at my calendar for what was coming up, which is mainly the All Members Show at the Blue Moon Gallery in August.  Today I printed out the three images that were chosen by the Blue Moon Gallery.  I wanted to get them printed to give them time to air out and dry.  I'll definitely need to buy some frames for these three as I'm pretty much out.  Since they're digital 11x17's I'll need to get the 20x26 frames.  Moving right along!

I'm thinking of getting back in the darkroom tomorrow.  But here's an image from the trip.  The evening fog was starting to roll in a little bit!