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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Finally a little silver work...

This past Monday evening I joined with a group of folks at Joe Aker's home to initiate a new group to talk about and show our photographs.
I'm sure you will hear more about this as time goes on.
Cathy has been on my case, as much as Cathy ever gets on my case, about getting out more and spending time with others. I think she's afraid that I'll go nuts if I just hang around the studio.
She's probably right, so when Joe invited me to join this new group it sounded like a great idea.
I've never thought of myself as a very competitive person but Monday night opened a door for me. I had no more than gotten home when I decided to get back to work on the series, "Ode to O'Keeffe" and show the group the prints. I'm one of the first presenters.
You can be sure that I'll have something to say when I get back on Monday February 7th.
Stay tuned.

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It occurs to me...

I've been thinking about the business of making photographs and I'm going to use this forum as a place to share some of those thoughts.
I'll also post new pictures as they get to the "finished" state and provide information on how you can go about having your very own copy. Taking a cue from Duane Keiser, http://www.duanekeiser.com/ , I think marketing my own work is the best way for me to go, at least for the time being

As I think about becoming a "photographer", I've spent some time with people who have made that choice long ago and are now working very hard at it.The work they have produced is in many cases, excellent. What I have noticed is that the profession has a very low return on the time invested. It's far cry from my previous career where the return on my time was actually very high.
Great credit is due those individuals who choose to become photographers and then actually make a "living" by making pictures.

One night last week I took two "portfolios" to the Houston Center for Photogrphy to have them "reviewed". It was an interesting experience.
I was told that the landscape work had no relationship to the short set-up comments I made and that I should keep working on the blk&wht, "Ode to O'Keffee" portfolio.
It was pointed out to me that "landsape" work is highly competitive. Interesting observation, how did I fail to see that?
It occurs to me that showing my work to strangers is a productive activity, at least for me. Unfortunately, I probably gain more from the experience than those who see the pictures for the first time. Maybe it's a fault of the work, not strong enough or unusual enough? Maybe it's the "reviewers" problem?
In any case, it's all just opinion and not fact. I will continue to seek out the opinion of anyone who is willing to look at the pictures, I will also continue to make pictures that I like.