We’ve been very lucky with weather this week, today may have been the best day yet. I’ve been at this for 8 straight days, it ends tomorrow. Starting Monday I will be preparing, packaging, and mailing orders taken at the show.
What I really appreciated today was that some of my images that have not received much attention, were being selected. When I am at an event like this, I am at work, so conversation is not always something I can engage in unless it’s work related. Whether it was about a book someone thought I’d be interested in, a location nearby that I may find fruitful, or my approach to the medium of photography, I enjoyed conversations with several people.
Today, the first print selected was again, Three’s Company. This image has
received a lot of attention at the show which I am pleased about as it is a new piece. The fact that it is snowing in the image adds some drama and people like that there are multiple cardinals in the scene.
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The first print purchased today was of the image titled Blue Bird. This is a colorful piece that I made in Bucks County, PA. I believe the bird is on an arrowwood bush in fall which offers nice contrast to the bird’s blue tones. I used a Canon EF 500mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter, on a tripod of course. This was an image made on film (Fujichrome), on a rather overcast day and with a polarizing filter to negate the glare on the leaves.
Today’s first purchase was part of a two print selection by a couple who first bought my work last year at the festival. They selected Icy Stare and an image of a wolf. Icy Stare was also the first selected piece of day 1. It is an image I made this past winter of a Sharp-shinned Hawk perched on a branch of a snag still showing the remaining ice of a storm that hit a day before.
The image that was selected today for first sale was of a chipmunk and is titled Sitting Pretty. I’ve always found chipmunks difficult to photography unless I can establish one that is repeating a particular behavior. This guy would run along the fence and stop briefly at this spot before heading on. This gave me time to pre-compose for his return.
images made this past winter. One such new image represented my first sale of the day. A couple ordered an 11×14 matted print of the image I titled Icy Stare. This is an image of a Sharp-shinned Hawk that I made while in a blind. It was a day after an ice storm had hit us here in Bucks County, Pa and the branches were still leaden with the crystal coating.
canopy made by Craft Hut (no longer in business). This canopy has a strong frame, sides and roof . The roof has a translucent section down the middle to allow more light in (a must have). It takes me about a half hour to totally put it up if I work fast. I’ve gotten good at it. I weight the four legs with 40 lb sand bags (still not enough in some circumstances).
The display walls are made by ProPanels and are a medium gray tone. They are light weight and come in two pieces (top and bottom). Easily configurable, I can set them up in my canopy or at an in-door show in just about any shape space I’m given. They store in my show trailer easily and are somewhat weather resistant. Like with the canopy, you get what you pay for.
We put French doors in the entry archway and furnished it as I needed to do matting and framing. I would love something bigger (twice the size would be a good start), but I make do. I have also taken over a bedroom for additional office space, printing and storage. Yikes!
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