Heading for the Art Festivals
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| | I’ve decided to jump into the world of selling prints at art
festivals around the region. I’ve spent the summer getting my booth together
and making it look like a photo gallery. I’m making some of my own frames from
some beautiful rough-cut wood. I have a new printer to make up to 16X24 prints and I spent a ton
of time culling down the 23,000+ photos I have in my digital file. I selected
about 200 photos and I’m printing about 75-90 of those in different sizes.
I’m doing shows that cater to arts sales, some of them also
have crafts, but it is high-end, there won’t be any wooden toys or lawn
ornaments. The first show is in Chatham, NJ, on Sept. 15, then in Upper
Montclair Sept. 21-22, Manchester, Vt., Oct. 4-6, and then back in Montclair,
NJ, Oct. 19-20. If you are in the area, I’d love for you to stop by.
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| | Two spots left for Fall Foliage workshop |
| My annual Fall Foliage Photography Workshop is coming up
Oct. 12-14 in Woodstock, Vt. I have people coming from California, Nebraska,
Colorado and New Jersey, it is a diverse group with varying skill levels. There
are only two spots left so contact me right away if you’d like to have a fun
getaway weekend of beautiful colors and photo learning.
Speaking of workshops, my Light and Composition workshop was
great fun. I had a good group who asked lots of great questions and soaked up
the information being tossed at them. We had excellent shooting sessions and
the classroom sessions flew by. I’ll be doing the workshop in Vermont again
next spring and in New Jersey in the winter, I’ll have the dates set next month.
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| New Lightroom workshop
Lots of people have been
asking about learning to use Lightroom, so I have created a special
workshop. I will have it in Vermont Oct. 26 and then in New Jersey on Nov. 16. |
| | Shooting the shooting stars |
| I love being outside and making photos, so when the annual Perseid meteor showers came around this week, I made plans to be out in the dark. Of course, plans do funny things, all day there were large, puffy clouds floating over Vermont, which make for nice daytime photos but don't do much good when they block the stars. So I went to dinner with my lovely wife, Robin, and when we came out the clouds were gone. I headed for the hills to a friend's property where I could get away from any lights and just watch the show. There were quite a few streaks and I got a fun shot of one zipping in front of the Milky Way as clouds started to creep back in.
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