Friday, September 24, 2004

Friday!

Hooop de doo!
It's friday! what does that really mean to me now that I am
retired? It means that Anne will be home after work and we can
spend the entire weekend together! I like that! I plan to get the
lawn mowed today, and hopefully get some photogs of the chickadees
going after the sunflowers as well. There are some interesting mushrooms growing in the front yard and I want to get them as well before they get all yucky!
Busy day ahead!

Friday!

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

gettin out!

I need to get out and do some shooting! My cameras are needing some exercise!
I need to get some framing ordered as well! Man I have a lot on my plate today!

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Dilemma

Y'know how life keeps throwing things at you? Well it seems to be on a fastball track with me
right now! I had the trip down to Napa so my daughter could have a car, carting up a bunch of
my photography to show to a gallery owner, hoping to get a show, and getting the car fixed for my daughter and delivering it. Now I need to consider (strongly suggested) changing the framing of my work, a not insignificant expense. There's a photo meeting in Chatanooga TN that
I really SHOULD consider going to but it would be an expensive trip and certainly if I went that
far I SHOULD also visit relatives in the area, but that would take more time, and even more expense..AND I am still looking at decreased revenues and the ability to actually make it to the
meeting. The meeting would be good professionally, with opportunities to network and perhaps
get some assignment work out of the deal, or at least get more knowledge and marketing strategies. Do I fork out the $$$ from my limited budget for this, perhaps jepordizing the new frames purchase? If I forgo the frames ,will I be able to get a show in a gallery? Even if I get a show, will I have some $$ success and make it all worthwhile, or will my ego get a swift kick in the crotch and leave me doubled over in both mental and fiscal agony? Sometimes even making the decision to make a decision is traumatic!

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Stepping out on the ledge!

Well, here goes!
today I go for an "evaluation" at a gallery with the owner. I wonder what will come of it?
It's more than just a little scary to put your art out and have someone else judge your
work's worth. What if she thinks all my work is crap? I'm sure I can handle rejection, but
I'd rather deal with success! If she does not like my stuff will I give up? No! Will I stop
doing photography? NO? It will mean that I'll not have a venue for selling at a place with a
lot of coverage and foot traffic!
Ahh well, off to the colesium....I wonder if I'll be a Christian or a lion today?

Sunday, September 05, 2004

Back home again!

Back from California's Napa Valley! I'm happy that I'm not a Californian! The only thing
worse than having Ahhhnald for govenor would be having to live down there with the
huge mass of people! Once you get out of the urban sprawl reach of the Bay area it's not too bad,
in fact, parts of northern California are gorgeous! But overall, the state's just a bit too screwy for my tastes! I did find a few sites I want to go back to in the spring to shoot some large format
landscape work. I'm excited about the gallery evaluation this wednesday in Seattle, if it goes well I might get a show in a gallery with a whole lot of foot traffic...and foot traffic equals visibility and that equals sales and THAT equals $$$!

Back home again!