Memories of Spring
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all!
Fat Tuesday in these parts was accompanied by snow that started in the wee hours and continued through late morning.
Not really digging it, though my area didn’t get the worst of the silent storm by any means.
While not the primary reason I decided to launch this website, I do plan to sell prints in order to support my work as a photographer.
With that in mind, I’m sharing a photo of a limited run of just five prints that I am offering on a first-come, first-serve basis. The first in the series is already spoken for.
I happened to make this composition on a late spring day.
The title Memories of Spring came to me of its own accord, and it fits rather well with the mood here as the mid Atlantic region shrugs off wintery weather and thinks hopeful thoughts about warm spring days to come.
My mood at any rate!
Prints for this run are on semi-gloss Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique II paper and are 13x16 in. They can be trimmed to 11x14 to fit standard frames. Printed area is approximately 9 x 12.
Each remaining print in the series is signed and marked as 2/5, 3/5 and so on.
All prints in this limited run are $100 + S&H. I will ship worldwide. Please allow up to 14 working days for prints to ship once I have received payment.
You can use the form section of the home page or on the contact page to get in touch with me. I accept PayPal and Venmo for purchases of this print.
I’m going to use similar text when I get the full blown online store up and running, but I think stating my philosophy on what you are doing when you are buying my work and how that factors into pricing is important to cover here.
Firstly, you aren’t paying for the paper and ink.
There’s a story about a woman seeing Picasso in a restaurant and asking him to sketch her.
It may or not be apocryphal or wrongly attributed to Picasso, and different variants of the story likely exist. I heard it told like this.
The anonymous woman says she’ll happily pay whatever Picasso asks. He proceeds to make a quick sketch of her on a napkin and then states that the price for his effort is $10,000.
I suspect the price also differs depending on the telling. A large sum in any case.
Shocked, the woman tells Picasso something along the lines of, “But that only took you 30 seconds!”
To which Picasso responds, “No. That took me my whole life.”
Whether you buy into this story as a real event or not, it illustrates my point.
Namely, when you buy one of my prints, you are paying for all of the technical know-how and aesthetic sensibility I have developed over the last decade and change.
And you are paying for how I have used that accumulated wisdom to produce the composition that arrives at your doorstep.
When you think of my service this way, the price point for one of these limited prints is low.
Here’s to spring when it arrives!
My First Blog Entry!
Welcome to those of you who are new here and to those of you who have followed me at my old wordpress site.
A brief introduction for folks who don’t know me is in order.
I’m Greg. I’m a professional writer during business hours and a landscape photographer when I’m not doing that.
I grew up in New Jersey and have lived up and down the Eastern seaboard. I also spent a decade in Louisiana before eventually returning to the garden state.
I’ve been snapping and sharing photos for the past 15 years or thereabouts. Places I’ve gone to photograph outside of my home base include the Smoky Mountains, upstate New York, Utah, and Maine.
On the international front, I spent about two weeks in Belize in 2022. I’ll be going abroad again in March of this year, so stay tuned for blog posts on that trip!
To get a better sense of who I am and why I do what I do, please check out the About Me page.
I’ve worked hard over the last month to get this website to a place where I felt like I could publish it.
While the site is “finished” in that sense, I will also be adding a great deal to it on an ongoing basis.
That will include a store where you can purchase my work!
Please feel free to inquire about prints before the store is up and running. I’ll be sharing a limited run I put together in an upcoming blog post with that in mind.
My custom when I write up a blog post has been to share a composition and discuss a relevant topic.
I don’t always reflect on the photographic process in my entries, though more often than not I do.
Sometimes I’ll get quite technical.
Others I’ll delve into a connecting subject, whether that’s a piece of literature the image reminds me of, a connection with a friend, the loss of a pet, what’s going on in the world, and so on.
Even when I’m talking about challenges I faced when putting together the final image that you get to see on your screen, I write in my natural voice.
Well, at least how I naturally sound on paper after spending a lifetime perfecting my unique voice.
On to the first photo itself!
As you can see, it’s not a single photo but a collage.
I initially intended to use it as the gallery banner image for this site.
A good deal of elbow grease went into making it, I can tell you.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to get to the look I wanted in the current iteration of Photoshop and watched a ton of professional videos on how to put photos in shapes.
Those methods, while cool, weren’t really working for me.
What I ended up doing was make some frames and distort them into the resulting shapes. Then add images I had chosen and position them artfully within said frames.
I had some professional experience doing that sort of thing, though this was years ago, and it took me longer than I care to admit to remember how to do it!
After all that, I asked a good friend if they prefer the collage or a single image.
You can see for yourselves which one won out on my home page!
I’ll end this very first blog post with the expected but nonetheless very sincere kind of closing thought.
I am very excited to be launching this website and for you to be going on this photographic journey with me!