thechrisproject photography

Friday night was the CoPA juried exhibit in Milwaukee. After seeing the other photographs selected for the show, I felt quite honored to be included with it. I got a chance to speak with Brian Ulrich, the juror of the show. He talked to me about my work. I told him that this was the first time I had submitted photos for anything like this and that my motivation was mostly to start getting used to rejection. He laughed and said maybe next year we could work on that.  The photo above is from the show.  My photos were about 5 feet to the right of this shot.  And we did have wine in a bucket!
The show was interesting. I got to talk to Donald Rasmussen about his Leave a Light On project. I had an idea a few months ago for a project that would consist of stores at night, shot through their windows. When CoPA announced all the artists that would have work at their exhibit, I went and looked most of them up. I noticed Donald’s Leave a Light On project right away. I thought to myself, “Well, I guess I shouldn’t do that anymore because this guy nailed it.” We talked a little about his technique (no polarizers, film scanned, digital processing, then C-Print) and the meaning and feeling behind the pictures. Below is a photo Donald had in the exhibit.

Saturday I went to Valparaiso, Indiana (aka “Valpo”) for a wedding. It was nice to not be the photographer at the wedding. I could sit and talk with people for more than five minutes. Our friends had a bike theme to their wedding, complete with the father and bride coming in on a rickshaw and the couple leaving on a tandem bike. I did manage to take a few photos.

On Sunday we drove to Chicago in mid-morning and went to the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Their show Relative Closeness had some fantastic work by a number of photographers. I was particularly excited to see Sally Mann’s prints in person (the photo below this paragraph is hers). The biggest discover for me was The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, a book by KayLynn Deveney. They had a number of prints from the book and I’m kicking myself now for not having bought the book. I’ll get it from Amazon soon. At $14 it’s a no-brainer. Seeing the photos at the Museum was quite inspiring. I’m sure it influenced our next outing, which next paragraph will illuminate in excruciatingly verbose prose.

After the MoCP, we went to the Field Museum. We saw dinosaurs and learned all sorts of fun things and I took pictures of lots of people.

So, on to Viewfinders. If anyone knows the name of a (the?) company that makes wireless viewfinders that you can attach to the eyepiece mount of a Canon 400d, please let me know. I read about them on someone’s blog, but I do not seem to be able to find the product with my normal searching skills. The eyepiece attached a little camera part to the eyepiece and then had what was essentially a little LCD monitor that was wireless. They also had a model that was not wireless with the LCD screen attached right to the eyepiece.

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