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Small Works

So last week I sent my print off to D.C. for the 12th Annual National Small Works Exhibition at Washington Printmakers Gallery. I guess it should be there by now. I hope it went alright. It is a bit nerve racking to trust UPS (or whoever) with taking care of my stuff. Even though I generally place little financial value on my own work, I still want the thing to get there in one piece. I know from experience that that doesn't always happen. Strangely, a screw up by a shipping company makes me feel less than professional and that isn't a good feeling to have when dealing with galleries and curators.

Artists featured in the exhibition include:
Diane Alire, David Avery, Tom Baker, Joshua Bindewald, John Bergmeier, Carolyn Brookhart, Ann Chernow, Christopher Clark, Margaret-Ann Clemente, Kathy Daywait, Andrew Decaen, Jessica Dunne, Gloria Fischer, Amy Foltz, Eric Goldberg, Karla Hackenmiller, Alfred Haywood, Yuji Hiratsuka, Mirka Hokkanen, Stan Kaplan, Berry Klingman, Brian Kreydatus, Richie Lasansky, Jane Lincoln, Evan Lindquist, Jake Muirhead, R.Bruce Muirhead, Agnes Murray, Thomas Norulak, Akemi Ohira, Tomomi Ono, Mark Pagano, Kevin Schroeder, Meredith Setser, Carolyn Sheehan, Timothy Smith, Keith Taylor, Dean Thompson, Caroline Thorington, Marie Weaver, Brad Widness and Clare Winslow.

Dirty Bird

Yesterday I opened up that Tourist camera and, using compressed air, blew all the dust out of it. I wasn't satisfied with that so I used a moist paper towel to work away at the metal parts of the camera. Then I stuck packing tape to the inside of the bellows, hopefully taking the dust away when I peeled off the tape. All this was in an effort to avoid getting any more shots covered with specks like the one above. Although, in this case, I kind of like the dirtiness and even kind of want to add some more.

Laboratory

I posted some photos a few days ago that I shot with my Anscoflex II. You might recall that the processing lab claimed that I was using "old or damaged film." I scanned the prints the lab sent me and they looked like the first image above. Today I scanned directly from the negative and, even without digital color correction, ended up with a much more vibrant image, as you can clearly see from the middle image. That color is much too vibrant for my taste so I did some correction to get the color a little bit closer to natural. You might notice that the image scanned from the lab's print is cropped pretty drastically from the whole negative. In this instance, I think their cropping is more successfull than my in-camera framing, but that likely won't always be the case. Its a lesson for me to always scan from the negative and never trust the results that come from the lab.