This Old Dog’s Learning New Tricks

We are just days away from making the drive to Brussels, Belgium for our first art fair as Boston Thek Imagery.  My first big test as a Fine Art Photographer…with an audience.   Sitting here after putting the final touches on a month’s worth of hard graft I am thinking back to the birth of the whole idea and how doubting Laura thought the feat an impossible one.  How great it is to prove one’s self wrong.

Of course it has been a struggle both physically and financially to pull together an entireshow of stock, (57 pieces in all)  in one months time, but I have learned a great deal in the process.  I can say now that it is VERY true that the hardest part of being a photographer is actually the pricing of your work.  After many pleading emails to all my amazingly talented photo friends and hours of Internet research, I learned it is a very personal process mixed in with a bit of math.  You never really know if you were correct until the day….so I will have to let you know how I did after the event.,

Many times over this past month, while I worked I marveled at how a life’s worth of knowledge picked up here and there, all are drawn upon and are ready in reserve when needed.  My museum knowledge helps for design and archival needs.  My Father passing along his construction knowledge to me during my childhood comes in with the framing, my painters eye is everywhere.

With all the work now  matted and framed with archival materials, signed and numbered with certificates of authenticity mounted on the back paper, just the final blue foam protectors are placed on each to ensure the 5 hour drive awaiting them is a safe one.

My team, husband and dog, are also thankfully accompanying me.  What would I be with out them, for it is my dog that gets me out shooting in all weather and it is my husband’s constant encouragement and faith in my creative process that spurs me ever forward.  It is he who first put a computer and camera on the desk of this stubborn artist while I complained I saw no need for it in a painters life.  Boy do I ever look back at that declaration and laugh.

I wish you all could be there in Brussels cheering me on and raising a drink with me as I begin this new challenge…..and teach this old dog…many new tricks!
Great Light to you ALL