More congratulations to you.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/18/2012 8:32 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Thanks for all your kind words and observations.
>
> Well, my good fortune continued the next day, Sunday. As part of the Thyme
> Festival, the local Council put up a medium-sized open-sided tent (gazebo
> ?) and for a nominal fee those who applied could exhibit for sale or
> whatever, their pictures from 10 am to 2 pm.. Turned out that just 4 of us
> including a local photographer who is still shooting medium format and who
> is in the process of setting up a framing studio in his home, were in it. He
> had perhaps 100 prints there; I had just 8.
>
> I didn't matter that I did not sell any (hardly anybody did, it was
> unseasonally
> cold and windy, and that seemed to have people keep their hands in their
> pockets); but I had plenty of interest and also good feedback from the
> previous night.
>
> To cap it all off I had an offer to hang 6 of my prints at a local country
> cafe/gallery. I accepted promptly. :-)
>
> Oh, and I forgot; at the evening the night before I chatted to one of the
> (well
> known locally) paint artists and told her of some procedural difficulties I
> was
> having with watercolour painting, and she offered to put me in touch with a
> local painting group for guidance.
>
> So it's been a great 2 days for me.
>
> And I must say also ... I know I have not been able to absorb all the advice
> you guys have given me, but I think some has stuck where it matters.
> Whatever anybody might say about my level of attainment, that I have
> reached where I have is due in large measure the all the Zuikoholics of this
> group who have nudged, cajoled and advised me for many years past.
> Thanks guys.
>
> Brian Swale
>
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