Congratulations Marnie! I remember seeing that shot here before. I like it then, and I like it now. Good work. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Congratulations first Marnie on your sale! > Second, what sizes did you choose for your photos and did you use frames? > I notice that nobody talks about money when they sell a photo so I will not > ask ;-) > > I have sold a my very first photo sized 30x45cm in a wooden frame last year > at a clay figure exhibition where it served as decoration :-) > > greetings > Markus > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: PESO - The End Revisited - Art Show > > > I mentioned a while back that I entered a local art show at the beginning > of > Dec. and sold a photograph. My first ever. :-) > > The show was mainly pottery, jewelry, and painting, and about only four > photographers. One guy used medium format and did landscapes -- > breathtakingly > beautiful. Well, he was in his twenties and willing to lug that large thing > around, thus I barely envied him. (Barely ;-)) > > So I was glad to sell one. And it was my biggest and highest priced one > too. > Also my most "artified," the only photographic I put in the show. I was > wondering how that would go over, and evidentially at least one person > really > liked the idea. > > I also mentioned it was The End that I showed on list, oh, about 6-8 months > ago. > > Several liked it back then as a straight photo (well, not totally straight, > I had B&W converted it and left some areas color). But I also got a fair > amount of technical criticism on it, not sharp enough. So I went back to > reshoot > it and found they had changed the sign, which really nixed reshooting it. > > So I artified it more to cover up any lack of sharpness and because I had a > mental image of the way I would like it to be. Actually this is still not > the > way I'd like it to be -- I'd like it even more B&W as in almost a combo of > high and low key, etc. But it comes closer than the original did. Someday I > will rework it again. > > Tim, or someone, said they'd like to see what sold. So here it is: > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/theend2.htm > > It was shot when my mother was ill. I also included in the show my Mom > grief > series, the Mohave Joshua Tree, the Yosemite B&W/color combo shot, and a > few > others I've shown previously on list. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/KIDDO/index.htm > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/mohavesky.htm > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/postcard.htm > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/magic.htm > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/joy.htm > > > Comments are not really necessary unless you want. Because, other than > newbies, most of you have seen them before. > > But no yucking, please. I know a lot of you like you photography straight > up > -- no water, no ice, no mixing. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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