So I know, you’re all asking… “How do you prep for this stuff????”. Ok, so maybe not all of you were asking, but a couple people have! And the answer is going to be different each time. Currently I have three pieces in a beautiful gallery here in town, The 3 Sisters Gallery which is an amazing, artists owned gallery that I was lucky enough to be selected with ten others for a show to show my work in. Diedre over there was just amazing and so, soooo talented, and was so easy to work with. I selected my pieces by sending them out to my two kids, and my wife. I gave them all access to the ones I was considering, and then sent a link to the folder that the files were in, and had each one of them delete the ones that they weren’t crazy about. By the time that was done I only had to chose from about five photos!

This time, for the Spring is in the Air show, I did the same things but chose four pieces. But the wall was so much harder. So really, what I did was I just took the stuff I already had in print. A lot of times I’ll look at a shot in port processing and just love it enough that I really want to see it in print. So I actually had a lot of photos all ready to go. I even have a couple metallics and vintage framed items going in the gallery this time!

So once all the work was framed, all I really had to do was do a “Product Tag” for them, and a Certificate of Authenticity for each one. And that’s it! Oh, and the other cool part is that I’ll be brining greeting card prints with me too!

The marketing aspect of all this is still challenging. How to present your work, and get your name out there are things that take a lot of thought. I want to present my photos in print, but I’ll never be that person that puts his work on T-Shirts and mugs. It’s fine art, not a novelty. So I’ll continue to just produce prints, and a couple things to look forward to are calendars, as well as a photo book that are both in the works. And for now, the only new stuff to offer is the addition of a 5X7 size in all my prints.