Memories of Spring

Happy Mardi Gras, y’all!

Fat Tuesday in these parts was accompanied by snow that started in the wee hours and continued through late morning.

Not really digging it, though my area didn’t get the worst of the silent storm by any means.

While not the primary reason I decided to launch this website, I do plan to sell prints in order to support my work as a photographer.

With that in mind, I’m sharing a photo of a limited run of just five prints that I am offering on a first-come, first-serve basis. The first in the series is already spoken for.

I happened to make this composition on a late spring day.

The title Memories of Spring came to me of its own accord, and it fits rather well with the mood here as the mid Atlantic region shrugs off wintery weather and thinks hopeful thoughts about warm spring days to come.

My mood at any rate!

Prints for this run are on semi-gloss Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique II paper and are 13x16 in. They can be trimmed to 11x14 to fit standard frames. Printed area is approximately 9 x 12.

Each remaining print in the series is signed and marked as 2/5, 3/5 and so on.

All prints in this limited run are $100 + S&H. I will ship worldwide. Please allow up to 14 working days for prints to ship once I have received payment.

You can use the form section of the home page or on the contact page to get in touch with me. I accept PayPal and Venmo for purchases of this print.

I’m going to use similar text when I get the full blown online store up and running, but I think stating my philosophy on what you are doing when you are buying my work and how that factors into pricing is important to cover here.

Firstly, you aren’t paying for the paper and ink.

There’s a story about a woman seeing Picasso in a restaurant and asking him to sketch her.

It may or not be apocryphal or wrongly attributed to Picasso, and different variants of the story likely exist. I heard it told like this.

The anonymous woman says she’ll happily pay whatever Picasso asks. He proceeds to make a quick sketch of her on a napkin and then states that the price for his effort is $10,000.

I suspect the price also differs depending on the telling. A large sum in any case.

Shocked, the woman tells Picasso something along the lines of, “But that only took you 30 seconds!”

To which Picasso responds, “No. That took me my whole life.”

Whether you buy into this story as a real event or not, it illustrates my point.

Namely, when you buy one of my prints, you are paying for all of the technical know-how and aesthetic sensibility I have developed over the last decade and change.

And you are paying for how I have used that accumulated wisdom to produce the composition that arrives at your doorstep.

When you think of my service this way, the price point for one of these limited prints is low.

Here’s to spring when it arrives!