[Leica] Big and Little Birds at Lut Boutique, Vancouver

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

Howard, well done. I recently held my first public show at the Ballarat
foto bienale. 20 images of street photography from Paris in a French
bakers shop for a gallery. A lot of fun. Helen did all the framing (ie the
hard work) and the show ran for the month of the festival. Its still up
while we are away, but will come down when we get home. You seem to have
had a great opening.

Cheers

Alastair

> Hi Luggers,
> About a year ago my daughter Jennifer who owns Lut Boutique on Main Street
> in Vancouver suggested that I could be one of her visiting artists. She
> shows local artists on the walls of her clothing store and sells their
> work as part of community building. I said sure - without taking into
> consideration the amount of work that would be involved. We settled on
> "Big Birds and Little Birds of Pender Island" as a theme and I spent the
> summer adding to my collection of Eagle (big birds) and Hummingbird
> (little birds) photos. We chose twelve pictures - six eagles and six
> hummingbirds. Jenny insisted on at least one hummingbird silhouette
> picture (which I wouldn't have chosen) and was more interested in colours
> than in the clarity of each photo. I ordered 100 matts for 5X7 photos to
> fit in 8X10 frames, together with backing and an cellophane envelop for
> each matt to present the photo. I also ordered 25 matts for 8 X 10 photos
> to fit 11 X 14 frames. Then I went around to the picture fra
>  me store and ordered up frames and matts to hold 18X24 prints and set to
> work getting everything printed. I used the local London Drugs photo
> service and after establishing rapport with the senior printer, I got
> excellent prints with only one set that had to be done a second time. It
> was a lot more work that I had anticipated but it also was very
> satisfying. Several of my photo friends from the Leica Group at Zen cafe
> came to the opening, old diplomatic friends came and I also met a lot of
> Jennifer's regular young customers who had a lot of opinions about what
> they liked and didn't like about the bird photos. The guys mostly liked
> the eagles and my landing eagle picture was the favourite. Ladies mostly
> liked the hummingbirds - including the silhouette one that I didn't want
> to include - and were mostly interested in colour rather than texture or
> picture clarity. The show is up until the end of December - in time for
> Christmas sales - and I have already been requested by Jenn
>  y to order more matts to make sure there is sufficient inventory for the
> Christmas season.
> Interestingly I expected the cheaper 5X7s to sell the best but in fact the
> 8X10s were better sellers so I need to adjust the mix. At the end of it
> all I have a newly found respect for the people who prepare and mount any
> art show.
>
> Here are the pictures:
>
> Me as the great white hunter with the old Leica 400 Telyt
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/HCTelyt.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n8f823t
>
> The invitation card to the show:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/BigLittleBirds.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pl27hfy
>
> Lots of photographer friends came to the opening and took pictures, of
> course,
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/ChrisTuulikki.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mt7cuqq
>
> Jennifer's friends brought their baby to the show:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/AmyBabeEs.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n42f4zm
>
> Others brought their dog:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/JennCathDog.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ltzxglf
>
> Several leicas and one nikon film rangefinder were in evidence:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/PatTomDavid.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mdsl6cz
>
> The pictures on the wall;
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/ShowWall1.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/og3t9ng
>
> Another view of the hanging pictures:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/ShowWall.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pejw3tu
>
> Esther and me with two admirers - the disputed hummingbird silhouette
> picture is on the wall behind us:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LutShow/Show1.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/n4qk276
>
> If you are in Vancouver visiting please do go to see the show which is on
> until the end of December.
> Lut Boutique 4219 Main Street at 26th Avenue.
>
> Please look large,
> C&C always welcome
> Howard
>
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