The day after Christmas finds me in an almost bare storefront. The 2007 Signature Gallery has come to an end, and my fellow co-op members have been diligent in moving their work out. Now it’s my turn as I start packing up the bins of matted prints and taking down the framed photos on the wall.

One of the best things about my end of year participation in both Signature and the Art Etc Art Fair is the great injection of feedback and input from people who stop, look, and (sometimes) buy prints. A few reflections on this year…

There were a lot of requests for and comments about B&W photography – I think more than in past years. Maybe it’s a backlash against the omnipresent digital color work out there. Maybe it’s just the luck of the draw with regards to the people I chatted with. Either way, it gets me more fired up to get out and shoot some B&W film. Heck, I may even go back and look at the several hundred B&W exposures I shot last summer and fall, but so far have done nothing with…

I was also happy to see Imperfect Symmetry, my snow flake book, doing well in the gallery and at Art Etc. Between the two several dozen copies of the book were bought, and it was particularly heartening to see folks who bought it coming back to get additional copies to give as gifts. I guess there is something about a book that makes you want to hold it in your hands before it seems to be compelling.

Apparently, lots of people like dragonflies and other insects! As usual, I probably over did it on the dragonfly prints, but I was happy to see the number that went out the door.

So that’s it for another year – time to get busy working on some new images!