update 5

After raising - more than doubling print prices - orders started coming in again. Go figure.

I have my list of ten A-List galleries and I'm working on a portfolio so that I can visit and probably be rejected by same. In political parlance, rejection isn't a problem - it's a challenge.

Anyway - I've ordered several small portfolio boxes from Light Impressions and my plan is to print about twenty 6 x 9's on the good paper for each portfolio and then hand-deliver them to my A-List.

At the same time - I'm raising prices so that they will eventually be more in line with what gallery prices will be.

My neighbor asked for a print of D.U.M.B.O. (Manhattan Bridge) and he shall get one as he's given me lots and lots of free music.

Just as a bit of trivia - to date the highest priced print I've sold was an 8 x 12 Window of Met. print #1 for $750 at a soho gallery. And I did a show in Connecticut a few years ago where I sold an 16 x 20 print (low number) of Subway Car Empty for $700. That may sound like a lot - but on the Conn. trip I stayed at a hotel, rented a car - and did a lot of framing for prints that didn't sell. All in all - though I sold about six prints - that was a break-even show.

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Anyway - my shooting is picking up again. I just grab the M3 with the 35mm lens and goggles on and just take it with me while I do my errands. And I'm starting to go through film again. I do carry a handheld meter, but I'm using it less and less.

One other point - I was using the M3 with goggles on subway this morning - and I was very out in the open about aiming and taking pictures. People didn't seem to mind at all - and I think it's that the camera looks so ancient that they just see it (and me) as a curiosity rather than a danger.