Negative attention is still attention, thank you
Thank you for believing in me and the artistic work I do. I will not let this opportunity pass me by...
It seems I will be hanging my projects on a local-ish gallery soon. I will post the dates and details after I sign the paperwork.(no counting my chickens before its time or whatever)
I won't be paid for hanging my work but they will pay for all my materials (paper to print on and frames or mats if I choose to use them, plus hanging material. The sales of my prints will go towards paying them back for those supplies. I will be the featured artist but the art of three others will be up too. I can recommend anyone I want to for this show so, if this interests any of my friends with talents, let me know. It needs to be photography but it does not need to be digital. I don't know if they offer the paying for supplies thing to everyone or if that was just for me because I at first told them I would not be able to do it because of that. I have two months to come up with 20 final images.
This is not the first time my art has hung in a gallery. I begin photography in high school (only snap shots before that) I did a photo essay of Auburns homeless population for my senior project. One of the judges asked me if he could put my work up in an artist’s studio that was having a show coming up.
I dreamed of attending Brooks’s institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. I even moved there but could never get my act together enough to afford it. I did meet a gallery owner through modeling in Santa Barbara. I got a one weekend show. I had to have a unifying theme to my work though so I came up with one. I did a photo essay of the squatters on State Street. All black and white (high contrast or "no tan") Really grainy. I had my weekend and was received very well. My prints were not for sale at the time. I was too attached to the work and couldn't put a price on it. The squatters were already my friends. I had met most of them outside of a GWAR concert I attended. They usually slept on top of the Earthling bookstore back them. Good times if you can handle the smell of 20 people who never shower.
I have always developed my own film and prints. When I was married I had a small business doing wedding Photography. I did three weddings. The thing is I didn't have any equipment except my light meter and two cameras. One was my Minolta and another was a snapshot camera. This means I was never the only photographer but my pictures, especially the black and whites were always better than the "professional" ones. At least I thought so and I am really hard on myself.
The last wedding I did was for a friend who owned Computer Addiction in Auburn. He was going to do it on a boat and I would be the only one but opted for the Lake of the Pines reception hall. Luckily there was another photographer because I borrowed a camera from a friend and that camera ended up having a light leak. So, all the pictures I took of the procession were ruined.
After that I never want to ever do a wedding again. These things are just too important to people and I could have potentially ruined my relationship with the couple.
After I moved back from Santa Barbara in 1995 I went to school for photography at sierra in Rocklin. I got a few shows out of that but they were mostly on campus and LOL, the state fare also posted my work, hehe. I still have my not quite blue ribbon.
In 1996 I took my first electronic imaging class (Photoshop) It was version 3.5 or something. I had to do it at school as I didn't have a computer and it was all on Macintosh. This was before digital cameras would have ever been thought of as affordable. So, we just scanned in our prints from 35mm. or the slides...
I was at first adverse to Photoshop as it made it all way toooo easy. An art form for people with no talent. That was what I called it. My major influence at the time was Jerry Uelsmann (http://www.masters-of-photography.com/U/uelsmann/uelsmann.html
And I was doing photo manipulation like his by using 3 to 6 enlargers at a time. Getting one perfect print could take all day and you could never make another like it. Then here was Photoshop... The same project putting a beautiful naked woman inside of a magnolia floating in the clouds took about 2 hours. 10 minutes if I wanted it sloppy.
Eventually, I realized that there was sooo much more possibility with Photoshop and I could afford to make mistakes and not be wasting $100 on photo paper...
I have been on and off with it since then., Usually I just work too much to have any time to devote to it. Now things are different and I have someone who recognized that. (I know all my friends are great fans and give me lots of support about it, but where is your gallery????)
I am in an advanced Photoshop class right now and the work load is soooo fun. Most of the pictures I am doing for the gallery (crossing fingers that it works out) should also work for the assignments. I will post everything in here but for a better look I will send you to an online gallery which is currently featuring a friend of mine and will be featuring me in October.
I am always insecure when I post my poetry. Thank you Jeff (my sideline cheerleader) for encouraging and inspiring me to write more and to combine it with my photography!!!
This is a great day. Taking pictures tonight in SF if everything works out...
Thank you all.
It seems I will be hanging my projects on a local-ish gallery soon. I will post the dates and details after I sign the paperwork.(no counting my chickens before its time or whatever)
I won't be paid for hanging my work but they will pay for all my materials (paper to print on and frames or mats if I choose to use them, plus hanging material. The sales of my prints will go towards paying them back for those supplies. I will be the featured artist but the art of three others will be up too. I can recommend anyone I want to for this show so, if this interests any of my friends with talents, let me know. It needs to be photography but it does not need to be digital. I don't know if they offer the paying for supplies thing to everyone or if that was just for me because I at first told them I would not be able to do it because of that. I have two months to come up with 20 final images.
This is not the first time my art has hung in a gallery. I begin photography in high school (only snap shots before that) I did a photo essay of Auburns homeless population for my senior project. One of the judges asked me if he could put my work up in an artist’s studio that was having a show coming up.
I dreamed of attending Brooks’s institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. I even moved there but could never get my act together enough to afford it. I did meet a gallery owner through modeling in Santa Barbara. I got a one weekend show. I had to have a unifying theme to my work though so I came up with one. I did a photo essay of the squatters on State Street. All black and white (high contrast or "no tan") Really grainy. I had my weekend and was received very well. My prints were not for sale at the time. I was too attached to the work and couldn't put a price on it. The squatters were already my friends. I had met most of them outside of a GWAR concert I attended. They usually slept on top of the Earthling bookstore back them. Good times if you can handle the smell of 20 people who never shower.
I have always developed my own film and prints. When I was married I had a small business doing wedding Photography. I did three weddings. The thing is I didn't have any equipment except my light meter and two cameras. One was my Minolta and another was a snapshot camera. This means I was never the only photographer but my pictures, especially the black and whites were always better than the "professional" ones. At least I thought so and I am really hard on myself.
The last wedding I did was for a friend who owned Computer Addiction in Auburn. He was going to do it on a boat and I would be the only one but opted for the Lake of the Pines reception hall. Luckily there was another photographer because I borrowed a camera from a friend and that camera ended up having a light leak. So, all the pictures I took of the procession were ruined.
After that I never want to ever do a wedding again. These things are just too important to people and I could have potentially ruined my relationship with the couple.
After I moved back from Santa Barbara in 1995 I went to school for photography at sierra in Rocklin. I got a few shows out of that but they were mostly on campus and LOL, the state fare also posted my work, hehe. I still have my not quite blue ribbon.
In 1996 I took my first electronic imaging class (Photoshop) It was version 3.5 or something. I had to do it at school as I didn't have a computer and it was all on Macintosh. This was before digital cameras would have ever been thought of as affordable. So, we just scanned in our prints from 35mm. or the slides...
I was at first adverse to Photoshop as it made it all way toooo easy. An art form for people with no talent. That was what I called it. My major influence at the time was Jerry Uelsmann (http://www.masters-of-photography.com/U/uelsmann/uelsmann.html
And I was doing photo manipulation like his by using 3 to 6 enlargers at a time. Getting one perfect print could take all day and you could never make another like it. Then here was Photoshop... The same project putting a beautiful naked woman inside of a magnolia floating in the clouds took about 2 hours. 10 minutes if I wanted it sloppy.
Eventually, I realized that there was sooo much more possibility with Photoshop and I could afford to make mistakes and not be wasting $100 on photo paper...
I have been on and off with it since then., Usually I just work too much to have any time to devote to it. Now things are different and I have someone who recognized that. (I know all my friends are great fans and give me lots of support about it, but where is your gallery????)
I am in an advanced Photoshop class right now and the work load is soooo fun. Most of the pictures I am doing for the gallery (crossing fingers that it works out) should also work for the assignments. I will post everything in here but for a better look I will send you to an online gallery which is currently featuring a friend of mine and will be featuring me in October.
I am always insecure when I post my poetry. Thank you Jeff (my sideline cheerleader) for encouraging and inspiring me to write more and to combine it with my photography!!!
This is a great day. Taking pictures tonight in SF if everything works out...
Thank you all.