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Subject: [Leica] update: April show
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:22:03 +0530
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Lovely images. All the best.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:59 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <
wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> >>>
> great opportunity here Doug to give us all the precise details again...
> <<<
>
> The show is at Blue Wing Gallery in Woodland California, between Sacramento
> and the SF bay area.  The show will run from April 1 through 29 and the
> opening reception will be this coming Friday from 6 to 9 pm.  Blue Wing
> Gallery is at 405 Main Street in Woodland California, and their website is
> http://bluewinggallery.com/
>
> After I was done bringing the prints into the gallery we lined them up
> along the walls and for the first time I was able to see them all at once
> :)
>
> The photos in the show are at http://www.wildlightphoto.com/paw
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
> On Mar 28, 2011, at 7:37 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > On Saturday I delivered 48 framed prints to the gallery for hanging.
> Friday
> > midnight I felt like I was at mile 20 of a marathon, where runners
> usually
> > hit "the wall". For those who have yet to run a marathon, "the wall" is
> > where your energy reserves are totally depleted, all hope is gone, the
> > dementors are moving in for the kill and you still have 6.2 miles left to
> > run. IIRC it's where I swore I'd never run again as long as I lived.
> >
> > The nagging questions I had were:
> >
> > ) are my homemade frames good enough?
> > ) do I have enough to fill the gallery space?
> > ) did I print everything too small?
> > ) is the gallery owner going to tell me I f***ed it all up and now he has
> > nothing for the month of April?
> >
> > Saturday morning driving to the gallery was like mile 26: legs are
> > cramping, knees are wobbly, energy reserves and brain activity are beyond
> > gone but THE FINISH LINE IS ONLY 2 TENTHS OF A MILE AWAY!
> >
> > As I brought the prints into the gallery the crowds began cheering! The
> > gallery owner loves the prints, the gallery's framer was delighted with
> my
> > frames, mats, everything, and there's plenty to fill the space. The owner
> > summed it up: "This is going to be a great show".
> >
> > BTW I didn't quit running.
> >
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >
>
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