More Photo Transfers

Once I got all my labels done for the gallery, I accidentally went back to the photo transfers - namely, finishing off the rose painting that was almost finished. That only took about another hour, and then all I know is the next minute I'm printing out another flower image on transfer paper and pressing it into the damp water color paper! I almost finished that one too last night. It's kind of strange to look at it - as it appears so much like the photo. It is a photo of a live lavender orchid I had at one time and it has a dark green ethereal background.

I had previously lucked out finding some pretty classy gold and antique silver frames on sale at Delta Mat & Moulding for the other photo transfers I did. Now I'll have to figure out more frames for these. I've never seen any frames of that sort at Aaron Bros. Speaking of those transfers, tomorrow I am taking them back to High Hand Gallery to have them juried in. I hope they get in. I would think they would make great holiday gifts as I am pricing them pretty reasonably!

Looks like this weekend is when I go back into the darkroom. I'll keep you posted.

More Supplies

Yesterday I headed out to Sacramento for lunch with my friend Rochelle. Her daughter recently got married and I took photos at her wedding. I wasn't the official photographer, though they had asked, I just don't want that responsibility. I had made them as a gift, a DVD of photos related to just the marriage portion of their wedding: walking down the aisle, the ceremony, the attendants, leaving the wedding, the first dance, the cake, the bouquet and garter throwing portions. They loved it, and even mentioned that they liked my photos better than the official. So yesterday Rochelle needed one more DVD for the mother-in-law. I made it at Walgreen's!! If you're a budding photographer, or if you want to make a DVD from an 'event', that's the place to go. All you do is select the photos in the order sequence, select the music, and the kiosk does the rest! It came out beautiful - unbelievable.

I also made a trip over to Delta Mat & Moulding for some mat board that I was completely out of. They had some really nice gold frames for sale. I ended up buying five of them for a project I am planning on doing. Making small B&W prints and these frames were 11x14, which would be perfect for them. For some reason small is sometimes better than large for sales at the gallery. It's more affordable for art lovers who don't have a lot of money.