Horn tooting, in awe and wonder

[pecunium]

I take pictures. I happen to think some of them are pretty good. But thinking one's own work is decent isn't hard to do. Harder is to figure out what other people will like.

I think this



is a pretty good picture. Based on other people's reactions, I'm wrong; it's a damned good picture.

On the other hand, some of the things I think are outstanding, e.g.



don't seem to resonate with people.

So, yesterday I got a comment on this picture, telling me the detail was really good.



I got it from, of all places, the National Museum of Wales

It took a little time for me to realise this was the actual flickr account for the Museum of Wales (why shouldn't they have one, the US Library of Congress has one). I don't know who manages the account. I don't know what criteria that person (or people) use to decide what to look at, much less what to praise.

I do know the various photos they have (at the museum's flickr account, and at the actual museum pages) include some nice macro, to include some wing scale details.

So I'm feeling tolerably pleased with myself.

Comments

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I like the grapes, but I REALLY like the lizard and the booby. And not JUST for the composition, but also the aesthetic. I would want to frame it and hang it in my office. Then whenever I was feeling cranky and overwhelmed by my mundane and largely meaningless job, I could look at that picture and remember that there is a whole wide world outside of my office, and that neither the lizard nor the booby give a hoot about the outcome of the case I'm working on.

And, you know, it's gorgeous--the booby's feet, the lizard, the grey and white of the rocks and that bit of green up in the corner. It's so sharp. Like I could touch it.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

You can have to frame, and hang in your office (tell me the colors of your office, and I can have it framed before you get it).

You can have the grapes too (something for home).

All you need to do it tell me the size (or concommitantly, your budget).

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Oh! You Tempter, You.

I want that picture for my office. The office colors are crap and drab and to be ignored. Size is what I'm wondering...

....You know what maybe I'll do, is take a picture of the wall I want to put it on tomorrow, and send it to you. Then you can use your artist's eye (as that's something I'm SORELY missing) and recommend a couple of sizes and tell me how much you think?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I can print up to 13x19, which will have a finsished size, after it's been matted, of about 16x24.

I can print as small as you like, but much less than about 8x10 doesn't do it justice. The larger it is, the futher back you have to be to take it in.

And there's the question of what it costs (which has to take shipping into account, unless you plan to be in LA sometime soon)

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Maybe it would be better to ship rolled and I get it framed out here?

Hmmm. I'll look at the wall tomorrow. It's a big wall, so it will take a big print. But I have to worry about the budget, too. I might have to wait until another hours bonus rolls in.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I'm of a mixed mind on rolled. I'd reccomend matted, and then framed when you get it.

If you want it rolled, I can do that, but I worry the paper will take damage, even with tissue; unless you get it on canvas, which I don't think this subject would really do well on, because the details of the racks will suffer.

I have a large print right now (I don't think it's 13x19, but rather 11x17) I can look at it, and see what it's cost is. The matting has already been done.

The issue isn't really the wall, but the floor. Look at a large print from too close and it suffers.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.

Oh.

See why I can't decide on my own? *g* I don't even know what to look for!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's what you do.

Go to work tomorrow, measure the floor space in your office, in particular, the distance from where you plan to put the picture, to where you plan to be when you look at it.

Two, figure out how much money you don't want to spend more than.

Three, I have a print, a trifle more yellow than the onscreen version, which is already done. It's 11x17. Without shipping it's $185.00 Shipping, will be in the 25-40 dollar range (depending on what the insurance costs).

A larger print will be a little more (13x19 would be in the $230-300 range, depending on how you want it matted; before shipping). A smaller pring a little less.

If you want to get it mounted, the price will be a bit less, though the shipping will be about the same; maybe more, because it will need better packaging (I think it has to ship flat).

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Will do all of the above, and email you tomorrow night.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

Hey! I want the 11x17. It will be GREAT in my office. Let's work out the details.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Just checking in, to see if you are still interested.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

YES.

I just got all swamped at work and am drowning.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Ok, when you get unswamped, let me know.

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

I have one of Terry's photos (an orange poppy) on my drab office wall, and not only does it make me happy to see it, a lot of people comment on its beauty.