PhotoEscapist

I entered several pictures for the “Viewpoints 16×20″ Photography Show that Syracuse Photographers Association is holding in November. Three of my photos will be on display at the Westcott Community Center starting November 13th. I’m not sure how long the show runs, but, I’ll share those details when I get them.

For the showing, the picture frames need to be 16×20 (hence the name of the show), black,and have a white mat (if matting is used. My prints are going to be 12×18 meaning I’ll probably need to cut my own mats

Here are the accepted photos:

This will be printed on metallic paper. I hadn’t heard of or seen it before so, I figured I’d give it a shot. If I don’t like the way it looks, I have time to get another print

I’m having this printed on matte paper

This will be printed on matte paper also.

I’m excited and a bit nervous at having my pictures on display at a photo show. Seeing people react and hearing there opinions in the flesh, will be better feedback than comments or thumbs up/down on the internet.

Perhaps this will lead to my own showing, or being dragged out by my camera strap and hung by my tripod. Either way, it’ll be a learning experience

Being hella-cool, I picked up the Wordpress App for the iPhone.

After some backend setup, I can now post, on location, without lugging around my 11 pound laptop.

Does this mean more posts? Well, I’m not sure how many more, but I can promise one new post

You may have also noticed more pictures rotating in the banner and a new logo. All the images are mine, and on occasion, they amaze me

Some of the pictures I enjoy the taking the most, are of gardens and flowers. A majority of pictures I took with the Nikon D70 come from English Garden surrounding my parent’s house. Over the last 5 or so years the front lawn has been slowly converted to spectacular beds of Tulips, Irises, Red Hot Pokers, Cosmos, more Irises, Lillies flocks and, any other plant able to live in Zone 5. From late spring to late fall, the front yard is a symphony or colors, scents and life.

The first picture is of Firecracker Flower (Dichelostemma ida-maia) and what prompted me to write this post Looking at my picture stats for my first Flickr account I saw this was getting several hits a day. Flickr has a neat way of tracking where the hist are coming from, in this case all of the views were from a forum on hkplants.com.

It’s nice to see that my photo was well received enough to be posted, along with 100’s of other links for most of the plants offered for sale on the site, but, it’s a shame they didn’t ask for my permission to use the photo

I’ve replaced the original photo with a watermarked version with the URL for this site

As for the rest of the pictures, enjoy, I’ll be properly tagging them so laypeople (like me) will know what they are looking at

Enough of that…on to the pics: