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So I’ve been back at the carbon printing for about 2 weeks solid now. Some good results, some bad. Mostly lessons learned.
1) dehumidifiers are both my friend and expensive
2) Mini-fridges are great for chemistry and beer
3) try, try again…
I’ll post some images soon. But anyone that is interested in what should shape up to be a great historic process show sould come to the community darkroom on September the 17th, around 7pm.
Should be a ton of fun
So here I am. Degree in hand (well almost it still hasn’t come in the mail yet) and hoping for work. It will come, but jobs for fine art photographers in academics is a bit like waiting for rain in the desert. It will come but who knows when and if it will be enough. So anyone with job tips let me know 
On a different note, thank you to everyone that has voted on my portfolio at www.artistswanted.org/Michael_Leonard I still need more votes to stay competitive for the “Peoples Choice” award, so please keep voting each day (one vote per person each 24 hours). Who knows, all your hard work voting for me may just get me a show in NYC!
Well tomorrow is the day!
Over a year of research and work is finally culminating in one night of art. So everyone that is interested should come to the Visual Studies Workshop from 6pm-9pm for the opening presentation of my thesis show “Catalogue”
Everyone is welcome, it should prove to be a fun night. Hope to see you there.
Well I can almost smell the opening of my thesis show. I’m hoping that all goes well and perhapse more folks check out my other photography. With a little wishful thinking I’v started to add a section to my portfolio website where I can sell prints. I’m guessing that I’ll still sell more in the galleries but I can hope.
If you ar einterested in a print be sure to keep an eye on my portfolio site www.michaelleonardphoto.com
OK folks, I haven’t made one of these posts since the “re-birth” of my blog, but this is a big one.
As you have noticed in my last post, my thesis books are in bound and all. But last night I found an issue, some of the spine reinforcement was not strong enough and it broke. Very sad… So I called Marc my rep at Book1 and told him the bad news. Without any hesitation or second guessing he immediately offered to find a solution and rebind all of the books, and have the job done ASAP.
Some of you may be thinking “Dams Straight! He should” And you are exactly right. But more and more often today businesses are just happy to have you out the door. So because of that mentality shift I feel it’s important to laud the people that do the right thing the first time.
So that in mind, I am labeling Marc at Book1 in rochester as one of the “People that Rock!” And rightfully so Book1 also shares that distinction. Marc at Book1 has certainly won over my businesses for a very very long time, and they should get your business as well. So if you need a book binder check out www.book1one.com
Very cool people, top notch product and they do really care that the final product be 100% what it should be.
Besides their whole place smells like new books, how cool is that!
Ater my thesis and defense I will be starting a new project. Simply put it is a blog that will become a collection of photographic tutorials. My hope is that this project will cover all reaches of photography from the oldest processes still practiced by only a few to the most recent cutting edge digital work.
So if there is anyone that is interested in being a contributor to this future process add a comment below. I’ll get in touch in short order and fill you in on the details. In your post please list any specific areas that you can write about.
This is just a fact little post. On a regular basis folks ask me about hosting.
Who I use, what they really need, things like that. Here’s the basics, buy only what you think you need, but make certain that your provider makes it easy to upgrade as you go. I personally use OneandOne.
For me it’s simple, they are very reliable, affordable and its super easy to add features to my account. I started with one personal domain, now I have several for personal use and quite a few commercial urls I host for myself and others. If you have more question post them below and I’ll get back to you on a case by case basis.
I just got the call (well email actually.) The books are printed and on their way to the bindery. One more part of the thesis done.
Well things continue to roll forward on the thesis front. The book is being printed. The bindary is all set. And the more mysterious elements are almost done. Don’t get me wrong, there is still a ton to do, but totally doable over the next few weeks. So mark your calendars, April 30 6pm at the Visual Studies Workshop Rochester NY, come one come all.
Hi everyone. Well things are looking a bit spartan right now and I thought I should post an explanation. Some less than human individual hacked my copy of Wordpress and managed to redirect all of my traffic to a whole host of malicious websites.
So… If you were one of the unfortunate that were redirected to a nasty little site due to this hacker I offer my apologies. I hope that you will continue to visit the site.
In the next few days I’ll be getting things back to normal, lots of posts will start to pop up and I’ll be announcing a new project that I hope lots of folks will enjoy.