And still, Thursday was the cSpace opening sponsored by the Camera Store, with all four floors booked. That was a fun time, seeing and chatting to lots of people I know. Lots of great images to look at. Not tempted even a little bit by all the Canon cameras on display, and even less by the Sony cameras.
Then Friday was the SAIT darkroom show in Crawlspace. However I first went into the Collector's Gallery of Art, thinking that was where the opening was. Lots of black and white prints up on the wall, so you can see how it was a natural mistake. Several other people made that mistake as well, so I don't feel bad.
Crawlspace is a couple of doors down, in the space that once upon a long time ago had Fair's Fair used book store. It's not a huge space, and by the time I left it was packed. Later I found out more than 150 people signed the book. I saw several buddies from my 2024 darkroom class and it was nice to catch up. There were some lovely prints and I thoroughly enjoyed the visit. It's really nice to see so many people interested in the analog photography process.
Saturday we went to the CKG gallery on 50th to look at Steve Speer's work. It's gorgeous! In fact Steve dropped in while we were there, and I chatted quite a bit with him. Bought his book. He autographed it.
Then it was off to the Collector's Gallery of Art. I know Colleen and really admired the one print. Last, back into Crawlspace so Linda could see the prints. While she looked I chatted with the gallery staff. One of them is in the Tuesday darkroom class so that was fun.
There's a couple other workshops I'm interested in that are put on by Greg(1), who I met on a photo tour a couple years ago, and see him at various photo events, and his partner Greg(2), and yes that's how they refer to themselves.
One thing about going to such events is that they inspire me to get out and be a bit more active. On that front, last night after the SAIT showing, I finished off roll 5. The fun part of that was setting up in Inglewood for the last exposure on the roll. Two young guys walk by, and one of them recognizes my camera in the dark, asked if it was a GW690 and which model it was. We had a nice chat. That's one fun thing about carrying that camera around, it often inspires people to chat. They wouldn't do that if was an ordinary DSLR or modern mirrorless.
And crap, Mac Spotlight indexing died again. I think the Backblaze backup is the problem, since I've had to redo it several times since I started the Backblaze backups. I've sent in a help request, but it makes adding photos to the blog more difficult. They said I needed to give a specific Backblaze helper app permissions to all drives.
Some days all this computer stuff really gets me down. One fellow blogger just migrated to on1 from Lightroom. I looked at that and shuddered in horror. It's probably not as bad as it sounds, but there's lots that could go wrong.
As I wade through the headlines to get past the Olympic not-news, I'm reminded of my very first rant, here, 15 years ago almost exactly. My feelings have changed in the slightest. Just in case you were wondering.
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