So much for doing a monthly blog. Somehow I managed to get involved in other things and photography has taken a back seat.
When I get to any of the big cities I like to visit galleries, photography preferably but as there aren’t many of those, art galleries. There is Stills in Edinburgh. Most of the time, the images encourage and inspire me but sometimes I wonder if I can ever get that perfect image. I just have to keep trying though. But I do like to exhibit my own work. Somehow it makes the journey complete. In the past I have studied how to make film and camera, how to use the camera and process the film and now I keep learning the ‘art’ of processing digital images. All this learning has to have been for some reason and making the final print by whatever means, digitally or wet printing, is almost an end in itself. However showing my work to others through exhibiting (or, these days, through social media) and receiving their comments is final. Good comments are always welcome but even criticism is welcome as it will help me improve. Or at times I accept that appreciation of an image is subjective and, if I like it enough to mount and frame it, then a bad review isn’t a problem. Well not much of one. The last two months I have spent painting in the arts centre - no, not a new creative skill, just white walls in preparation for An Talla Solais to open their old doors in Market Street to the first face to face exhibition for some time. It has been a difficult year with the pandemic and the closure of the gallery in the Caledonian Hotel. Thanks to the ‘Cale’ for hosting art for a few years but you have decided to move on and so will ATS. The members exhibition will open in mid September. Why not look out your best images and submit them for everyone to see. An Talla Solais, Ullapool https://www.antallasolais.org ATS Members Exhibition https://www.antallasolais.org/members-show All submissions must be received digitally by Thursday the 18th August. Stills, Edinburgh https://stills.org Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool https://openeye.org.uk Impressions Gallery, Bradford. https://www.impressions-gallery.com Side Photography, Newcastle https://www.amber-online.com/side-gallery/ Belfast Exposed, Belfast https://www.belfastexposed.org The Photographers’ Gallery, London https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk .
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Neil GerrardThrough these blogs I hope to inspire you into creating better images. I'll illustrate with my own photography and link with other photographers and artists. Archives
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