Black and White Double Exposure

Ever since we got back from vacation, it's been like 'hit the ground running'!  Attended a meeting last night for High Hand Gallery on 'marketing'.  This seems to be the biggie right now for a lot of people in the art industry.  I recently joined LinkedIn at the urging of one of the gallery owners.  Just revisited my LinkedIn page to update the summary - deleting the first person text and making it more professional.  Setting goals is key in any business.  Writing a business plan is also a major task that we tend to procrastinate on!  That's for sure.

I worked in my studio all day yesterday staying focused on getting ready for the upcoming Auburn Art Studios Tour.  I was able to borrow some lighting, so that issue is resolved.  Then I just sat and wrote out a looong list of what I needed to prepare prior to the tour, and what I needed to bring the day of.  It's going to consist of major work since I will be moving an abbreviated version of my studio down to the Arts Building.  They will be providing some panels for me to set up, but I may also need to bring my personal pro panels.  Then there's the print racks, cards, matted prints, framed prints, gelatin silver prints.  I will also bring my two major cameras and I'll need to update my laptop so that I can display my website on it.  I might even do a slide show.  I also thought of taking photos of my studio and have them on display too.  I could add that to the slide show.

I was looking thru my recent Bodie images this morning and one of my favorites looks like a double exposure, but in reality it was the signage inside the Bodie Hotel, with the glass reflecting the mountain and sky which had great clouds that day!

 

High Hand Gallery Re-Do

Tomorrow the High Hand Gallery will take down all the artwork, and in two days it will become a whole new invention of sorts!  We do this every two months, and it amazes me that our curator can get this done in two days.  We're helping of course, but she has the vision.  I'd be in there for a month trying to figure out where everything goes, that it flows, and the colors compliment each other.  It's a BIG job!  So tomorrow I'll put in my time over there and help out.  I did drop off my two new pieces.

I also sent in my JPEGS to the Blue Moon Gallery for the group show in August.  These are marketing images for Sacramento Magazine.  I really don't know if they will be used, but I sent them in!  In regards to marketing images, I also sent in some of my Greece images to the administrator of the High Hand Gallery Blog.  It's free marketing for each of the artists, so why not take advantage of it.

I did receive my order from Dick Blick and I really love the Bamboo frames I ordered to try out on some of my acrylic paintings that are hanging in Kerry Terese Salon & Gallery in Auburn.  I will have to go down there and pick them up so I can try it on for size - see how it looks!  I think they need a finishing touch of some sort.

Right now I am free of any project and I think I'm going to just enjoy that for today!  But I'll leave you with these photography thoughts, again from LensWork Magaine:

"Good photographic composition is merely the strongest way of seeing."  Edward Weston

"Without compassion, photography is a bore!"

"A full 30% of your best photographs will be lucky accidents."

(Ain't that the truth!!  However, they are more in the category of amazing accidents.  Maria)