Wasted Continuum

I took a great photowalk today at Minnehaha Park. It really was more of a photohike. I shot a lot of photos. You can view the whole set here.

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I have officially survived my first photography showing at the Saint Paul Art Crawl this weekend. It’s been quite an experience. Everything went great. I got a couple inquiries on purchasing some of my photos. That’s always good to hear. I also had an interior designer ask me if I can shoot water towers and make poster size prints. The best thing about being at a gallery showing of your work is meeting people who are so excited and interested in your work. I heard a bunch of people make comments like “that’s nice” or “this one looks cool.” Those are great comments and I it good to hear that, but what I really loved are the people who were so intrigued that they had to flag me down and ask me a bunch of question about my photography. That’s the main reason why I put my photos out into the public. As long as I get people psyched about my work, I’ll keep doing it.

There are a few things I would have changed knowing what I know now. First thing is that I need to prepare a lot earlier. I literally left everything to the last week. Second, I should of prepared more support material (i.e. business cards, postcards, more informative website, etc.). Last, I think I should of promoted it a little more.

Overall, it was a great experience despite all the sleep deprivation. I also walked around the Art Crawl myself on Sunday. Saw quite of bit of great work. I’m sometimes fearful that art is not as strong as it used to. I’m feeling more that it is okay and that is good.

I have quite a bit of photos that I took from the whole weekend. I will slowly add the ones I like to my Flickr. I have a Art Crawl 2008 set created already.

I’m officially done with my little piece of the Art Crawl. It went way better than expected. I’ve learned so much from this experience. First is that it takes an immense amount of time to prepare for a photography showing and because of that, I’m way too tired tonight to tell you all about it. I will be exploring the Art Crawl for myself tomorrow afternoon, so I can talk about that too. I just poured the little bit of energy that I had left already into this and now I need my sleep. I took a lot of photos of the Art Crawl and I will be posting them on my Flickr account. I have already started a set for it. Right now I have some shots from my setup process. I will try to post more tomorrow. I also have a bunch of photos of my friend, Star, and her magic performance. Special thanks to her for letting me use part of her space for my showing.

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I have made it to 100 photos in my Flickr 365 project. I’m so amazed at that fact, you don’t even know it. The 365 project has been one of the best learning experiences so far for me in the photography world. I think I have really improved because of it. Besides improving my composition and lighting, I’ve also learned a lot about my camera. I’m glad I decided to do it.

In slightly old news, Flickr turned 4 last Saturday. As most of you may have noticed, I use Flickr extensively. I know there are other alternatives, like SmugMug, for online photo display, but I love Flickr. It’s so easy to use especially if you use the Flickr Uploadr app. I use it everyday to upload, name, tag and organize my photos I share. It supports drag and drop. It makes it so easy to work with multiple files before you even upload them. It’s great.

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I’m finally finished going through my Christmas photos. They’re all tagged and I have uploaded the good ones to my Flickr. 37? Yes, there are only 37. A bunch of them are private. To my friends and family who still haven’t created a Flickr account, you don’t get to see the cute photos of Katelyn.

Now that I’m done with my Christmas photos, I have to go through all my San Francisco photos. There’s a lot of them.

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