September 17, 2005
DaDa Distraction
I spent yesterday morning at a seminar for my stock agency, which has recently merged with about three others. Chatting with a couple other photogs before they let us in the meeting room, I had to admit that I hadn't submitted anything in quite a long time since everything and everyone had gone digital, including me. It used to be rather easy to submit slides or hard copy photos and if selected they did a scan, made their own negative and they would archive it and that was that. Now it is highly complicated and this is what the seminar was about - the softwares available and how to use them and what's acceptable, etc. I wasn't the only one who was there to possibly be inspired to start submitting in this newfangled way which takes a shitload of time (and money$$$) on the artist's part.
During this pre-seminar chat, the botanicals photographer and I were joined by a lifestyle photographer wearing a beret who said I looked like a German Art Director. Well, that was just about as inspirational as the rest of the morning - if not more.
I came home and worked on my 4' X 6' painting of botanicals and cracked open a German beer.
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