The Monochrome Guild Spring Friends and Family Show was hosted on Friday May 23rd. Once again we utilized the office space of Acius Engineering, a company owned by Guild member Arda Ozum. It was a beautiful day and the temperature peaked at about +30C in the afternoon. I think this great weather, the warmest day we've experienced in about 8 months, but a dent into the attendance at our show. A lot of people probably just headed out of town to the lake for the weekend, or got the barbecue going on the patio, or headed over to a pub somewhere to watch playoff hockey. Although our attendance numbers were a little lower than previous shows, we still had a pretty good turnout. By my estimate about 65 people came through the doors over the course of the evening and everyone seemed to really enjoy seeing our work.
I had been furiously working in my darkroom preparing a couple of new prints for the show. I spent a good part of the long weekend printing, sepia toning, mounting, matting and framing these two images. One I call "Mushrooms, Chungo Creek" and it was taken in 2012. The other I call "Cottonwood, TL Bar Ranch" and it was taken in 2010. The Cottonwood print was very well received and got a lot of compliments. Though no one seemed to want to part with the five hundred dollars that I was asking for it. But sales are not really the intent of this show. We offer the work for sale as a lot of past guests have asked about it. In the past a few pieces have sold. But, the show was really about getting an audience out to see our work and gaining some appreciation for our efforts.
In addition to these two pieces I also included three large prints from my Procession West project, as well as about 16 small mounted and matted but unframed prints. Nine members of the Monochrome Guild had work on display, and most were in attendance through the evening. We expect to do this all over again for a fall show, late in 2014.
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