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Apologies all. Some displacement and other issues have made both photography and internet nigh impossible. I'll try to catch up things in the next week or so.
APUG BLIND PRINT EXCHANGE - ROUND 19 (BPX19) Status and Updates
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Order placed tonight. Will likely take until next Wednesday to arrive, so hopefully mounting can happen the following Saturday.
Ken
Sorry, I was..... "Away" from APUG and just got "back" I will need a few days to "recover" and I'll make sure to review my emails for my charge 
Mount board order received. Mounting completed. Mats to be cut this week. Shipping by Mon, March 17th??
Ken
You're making me look bad...
Made prints last night, but didn't have time to tone. Should get done and out the door by next weekend, I hope.
Well... THAT didn't happen... The cutting did... But the shipping didn't...
Someday, I'm going to fake my own death, resurface as a new person, and have all of my time to myself.
Ken
My print is finally ready. I'm gonna make a sturdy package tonight and will post it tomorrow. Delivery across the ocean: about two weeks??
Same here. My print is done, toned and flattened. I should be able to ship real soon.
Mine is toned, washed, and dried. Dunno about flattened - I suck at getting them flat without them coming out of my press with a weird hard to fix corrugated effect. I may have it professionally mounted, but in any case it should ship soon.
I made a parcel out of three layers of sturdy cardboard, included a nice letter and it's in the mail today, across the ocean to :confused:
in the USA. I'll send it with Air Mail, but it might take two weeks to arrive. I hope the recipient likes it. I'll post my image here after he/she confirmed the save arrival of the image.BTW:
I decided not to board the image (is that the right word in English??). At first I planned to - to make it sturdy during shipment - so I asked the photo lab what to do. But he said it would immediately limit the recipients options to choose how to frame, hang or store the image. So I didn't.
What do you think?
By "board" do you mean "mount"? As in using a dry mount press?
Ken
Ken
Yea I think that's what he means. I think it would be nice if it were an extra large board, as in, give excess space to the edges (6 inches or more?) and allow the recipient to cut it down to the size for the frame they want. Any framer could easily cut it down even with the image inside. However it's also a matter of how much the presentation is important to you, like, if you believe this photo should go with a certain type of frame, color, size, as well as matting, and that's how you want your image to be presented to the world, both in their home as part of the body of your work, then you should choose not only the matte board, but also the frame, if you don't care and you're just making sure it's sturdy for shipping, you could mount it with cloth tape instead of dry mounting it, and let the recipient decide if they want to hard mount it or not.
Either way you're ahead of me, I thought I would have this image done by now but I haven't, soon!!!
Not quite the last to send....
My offering is in the post today winging its way to some far flung spot on the map.
My offering is in the post today winging its way to some far flung spot on the map.
rec'd from mark sauerwald...
whoa! winchester cathedral - handheld, 1 second! sharp, dramatic, and well done. very impressive... thank you.
jvo
whoa! winchester cathedral - handheld, 1 second! sharp, dramatic, and well done. very impressive... thank you.
jvo
I mean a foam board to "glue" the image onto, often about 3 - 10 mm thick.
Hi Bert,
As you already found out last round, I personally prefer to dry mount and custom matte all of my submissions. I just think it's the best possible presentation. I figure that if someone thinks the mount is too large, they can cut it down. And if they just hate the picture, they can toss it and keep the matte for use with their own pictures.
It does also add a little weight to the package. But really not so much.
Ken
Jim- Thank you. Only sort of handheld. I used a TLR, with a strap around my neck, the camera against my gut, and my back leaning against a wall. There were no tripods allowed in the cathedral....
And after another week of procrastination, the prints are mailed! Unfortunately, I forgot to scan the prints, so I've got nothing to upload to the gallery.
And after another week of procrastination, the prints are mailed! Unfortunately, I forgot to scan the prints, so I've got nothing to upload to the gallery.
Ahhh! Hah! Perhaps your charge will have the ability and the kindness
I just returned from the post office. My print is in the mail.
And when I got home I found that the post it note I had attached to the front of the Ilford MGWT box I shipped the print in, the one saying, "Finished print only, safe to open in room light" had fallen off. I presume anyone getting the package would know this but in case someone is puzzled by getting what appears to be a mostly empty box of paper from me (I didn't put anything about print exchange on the outside) never fear room light, it was just a convenient rigid box to ship the print in.
And when I got home I found that the post it note I had attached to the front of the Ilford MGWT box I shipped the print in, the one saying, "Finished print only, safe to open in room light" had fallen off. I presume anyone getting the package would know this but in case someone is puzzled by getting what appears to be a mostly empty box of paper from me (I didn't put anything about print exchange on the outside) never fear room light, it was just a convenient rigid box to ship the print in.
Damn it Roger. You whipped my butt in this round...
Ken
Ken
You're all beating me!... Ugh
Mailed my print yesterday.
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