I look around my house and I look at the number of those photos that I have actually printed, and I come up with two. Two photos: one, printed to a 4 x 6 print, of the whole family, when the girls were very young—maybe two and four. We shot it early in the morning, as the kids joined us to snuggle in bed. It was a happy morning, and the photo was shot with a point-and-shoot camera.
It was a basic camera taking a basic, happy family moment.
The other photo, a 5 x 7, shows the four of us, two summers ago, standing at the Rideau locks by the Chateau Laurier, our canoe held over our heads, as we finished our 200-km journey from Kingston to Ottawa. It was a triumphant moment, captured on my Nikon D80, my first and former D-SLR.
My mom took the shot when she came to get us.
Two photographs out of tens of thousands.
When I shot 35mm film, I constantly made prints of my photographs, had them mounted on plaques or hung in frames. In my old apartment, one long wall was lined with dozens of shots that I proudly displayed.
That art seems to have disappeared in the digital age.
But no more.
This week, I received a canvas print of one of my photographs that I shot on my recent trip to New York City. It's one of my favourite shots of that trip. I shared it when I returned home but was too tired to put out a proper blog post. It was a lazy post with one of my best photos.
It's now printed on a 24 x 36 canvas, and it looks like a painting. It's a work of art, if I may be so bold.
And now I want to print more.
Next up, this shot, taken on my last Brown Knowser Photo Walk. Again, I'm thinking 24 x 36. Thoughts?
The NYC subway shot looks so good, I'm thinking of making more and selling it. What do you think? I mean, every time I see the prints in Ikea, I think, I can take as good a photo, can't I? My NYC subway shot is as good as anything I've seen in that store.
Would you be willing to put one of my photos on your walls?
Happy Friday!
Of all the hundreds of photos you and I shot on that NYC trip "23rd street" is by far my favorite. That shot of the gallery is beautiful! Definitely a large format print is required.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the amazing shots. I too am in the same boat. Thousands of pictures and none hanging on my walls. we are in the process of changing that.
Thanks, Marc!
DeleteNow all I need is time to sort through my photos and decide which ones to print.
And money. I definitely need the money to print them.