We survived another journey north to the Garden State (NJ for those of you who live west of Camden). The weather was just a normal spectacular weekend with cool temps, drizzle on Saturday and bluebird skies on Sunday. Sales for this NJ Lighthouse Challenge were off as were the crowds but the friendships were outstanding. Ronny and Sam drove down just to visit us. Sam, whose foot is about to fall off due to an old man, self inflicted, dropping of a sign onto said foot injury was in a pergiment (again for those of you west of Camden that's probably a misspelled drug) induced haze. So the only thing to do was to reinvent the old man shuffle around the place. You know the type of walk! Stooped shoulders. Hands out for balance. Eyes on the ground in front of your feet and one inch strides repeated as quickly as possible for old men. I do hope he gets better soon but that's just the way we roll. Not even change for a quarter given or received. Love the guy. Visited with a High School bud, Carol and her husband Jim on Saturday evening and had a great time free loading. Nice people them!
Sheri (on the left) established bonds with Nancy, my erstwhile FB buddy who paints, interior designs, photographs and writes little books for little kids and is otherwise all around good people. She and Carl are a wonderful addition to the lighthouse family. Of course all the usual suspects were on board and it was wonderful seeing them all again.
We stayed two nights at a Bed and Breakfast in North Wildwood, a place I found out later was supposed to be haunted. Can't tell ya! Saw nothing strange. But if anyone is ever in need of a place to stay in Wildwood or North Wildwood, New Jersey....The Candlelight Inn is the place to go. Easy commuting distance to Cape May and even Atlantic City. AND, the breakfasts Bill serves are killer!
As some of you know I ordered two 20x30 images printed on metal for the show, and they were the hit. Didn't sell, but then again nothing much else did either. Both images drew people from a hundred feet away and all the appropriate oohs and aahs were emitted. So....If you need images and would like them printed on metal, do so with all the confidence in the world. Fine Art America does a fantastic job!
The inventory reduction effort continues and I did get rid of a bunch of stuff. I will not be doing too many more shows like I have in the past and will hence forth venture out only on invitation. And therefore am selling, selling and selling. I even sold one of the WWI ammo boxes you see on the table in the foreground. I am thinking that a digital booth may be in order, but have to look at that further. In the meantime, we continue to have fun.
My daughter, Heather, visited all too briefly on Sunday and even help to pack us up. That was appreciated but I would have like to spent more time with her. We left Sunday afternoon for my son's place in Middletown, DE and spent the night. Grandkids are on some kind of drug or fresh air or something that makes them grow, but I guess we all know about that. Monday and Tuesday at the beach house and then back here on Wednesday. Another whirlwind 2,000 mile trip. Next a winter visit with the kids and grands in December.
I did manage to get some new images which you will be seeing in the near future on FAA. One of which was the Cape May LH.
This one is unedited and will be one of the ones to be listed soon. I had the good luck on Friday evening to have a great sky filled with all kinds of cloud action. The setting sun is behind the tower which created a shadow of same right over the top of my head. An interesting take on a normal setting sun image. Later the more traditional sky color developed, but a lot of the clouds were gone and the set was, well, not so much. I wish that I could report to you that I had been in touch with the meteorologists and planned to arrive under the conditions you see....But not so. In the planning stages any good photographer must consider that he/she can just get plain lucky. We were headed for dinner and just happened to stop by the spot. The old "Blind hog finds an acorn" rule applied.
Have a great week end y'all!
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