Update 23 May - Exhibition and Selling work

Exercise work is going rather slowly - have been somewhat distracted by the seeking of what context is all bout - see the Reading blogs; also have been going to Bristol Festival of Photography and setting up my exhibition at the St James's Wine Vaults.

On Monday, my wife and I went to Bath to put up the framed work. It took 90 minutes of measuring, banging and sticking to get the frmed prints up together with the commentary. i tis not a themed exhibition - simply "the best of" designed to sell some work. Man cannot live by love of photography alone, so this is an unashend attempt to sell work. I doubt it will work, if only because the audience will be small (other groups using the space). But it has been an interesting exercise to highlight the hard work involved in trying to get remunerated for photography work.

A second string to this bow will be to set up my own website. I receive weekly an email from www.lightstalking.com. This is an eclelcic newsletter aimed at photography enthusiasts. I read it occasionally, and was taken this week with an article on where to host images online:

http://www.lightstalking.com/so-where-should-you-host-your-photographs-online?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email%2B&utm_term=Weekly%2BEmails&utm_content=18-May-12&utm_campaign=Weekly%2BEmails.

I read the options and have decided that Zenfolio is probably best, if only because it is clearly UK compatible (Smugmug is US and Australia only). This will be another distraction from the academic work, but a necessary one in order to see if selling images is possible.

My wife and I repaired from Bath to Bedminster to view the images from the Photomarathon. Mine were a disaster, as predicted. The flash failed and several of the images are double exposed. To be honest, there was not much good stuff on show from anyone. Not sure I will do this again.

Reverting to exercises for People Aware, I need one more image to complete third exercise and have taken an image for fourth. Importantly, I have now completed a set for the Assignment. These are images of my mother originally takne for the first exercise but decided they are good enough to be usde fo rthe Assignment with a couple of additions, now taken. So, althoughthe completed work looks thin, I have done a lot of work to get prepared - should be able to write up two exercises in one go.