Man in Cafe

Man in Cafe

Taken during lunch with Matt.

Untied

Untied, (a few weeks ago)

Silver Rag

Oh - that is sweet. Crane Museo sent me a roll of Silver Rag to test. Can't wait to see how it goes through the printer. I think they may have made a lifelong friend.

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Jeff posted this bombshell (at least to me) about Konica Minolta withdrawing from the photography business.

Day 19

Valentine's Day Sale. At the very least I'm having fun making these web ads. Discovered the curve text button in Photoshop. Hey, get your hot Valentine's Day pictures here. I think I'm going to have a different sale every day.

Anyway - as much as some of you may like my pictures - I discovered something alarming last night: namely that they're not "novel." If anything they all looked like they were taken in the 30's or 40's. Yes, you can tell the era if you look at people's clothing, but the style - the style is strictly old-fashioned. Passe. No wonder I should stay out of salons. Where's the novelty? Where's the flash? Where's the "I never saw that before" appeal? Where's the widget du jour? I can't find it in my images anywhere and believe me, I looked.

Just ordinary things shot in an ordinary way. I need to find the old-fashioned gallery for old-fashioned photographers. Buddy is sitting on the desk watching me type this and purring loudly. I'm not sure if that means he agrees or not. Probably wouldn't know an HCB from a Van Gogh.

Oh well. I'll go to the old-fashioned photographers home soon and hope they've got an internet connection there.

"I wanted to let you know that my brother loved the prints (Poet's Walk and Subway Car). I gave them to him as a Christmas present. I also wanted you to know that your service was impeccable - thank you. "