Shhh ... I've got a special event coming up ...

[gr82bart]

Same event, two different venues / dates - the South East Conecticut Camera Club and the New Haven Arts Council. Details to follow. But it will be HUGE. Shhh ... wait for more ...

Regards, Art.

 

[bdial]

Ok Art, whatever you say.

 

[gr82bart]

It will, I swear! Watch this thread.

Regards, Art.

 

[Whiteymorange]

It will, I swear! Watch this thread.

Regards, Art.

The eyes are glued.... honest.

 

[David H. Bebbington]

Same event, two different venues / dates - the South East Conecticut Camera Club and the New Haven Arts Council. Details to follow. But it will be HUGE. Shhh ... wait for more ...

Regards, Art.

Congratulations but ... it's better to wait with the announcement until you can actually reveal some details!

 

[gr82bart]

BIG is getting BIGGER, we might be adding one more stop to this event. More details (and suspense) to come ...

Regards, Art.

 

[Ray Heath]

oh, i just can't wait

 

[Soeren]

Whats so BIG about YOUR birthday?
Sorry couldn't resist.
Regards
Søren

 

[bill schwab]

BIG is getting BIGGER...

Does this have anything to do with a little blue pill???

Sorry.. couldn't resist.

 

[gr82bart]

Does this have anything to do with a little blue pill???

LOL! In one venue, we may have to pass them out to ensure their *attention* Just keep them away from Carnie, he tells me way too much now. I can't imagine ... shudder ....

Regards, Art.

 

[gr82bart]

OK folks, dates are confirmed.

Tuesday, February 5 at the Valley Photo Center (don't bother asking papagene for details, I've got intimate pictures!) in Springfield, MA

then

Wednesday, February 6 at the South East Connecticut Camera Club in Waterford / New London, CT

and if that's not all

Thursday, February 7 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven, CT as part of the Photo Arts Collective

Meet up with one the finest master printer (definitely not me!) and see first hand the range of fine art print options available today.

Save the date of the event closest to you. Plus it's all free ...

Regards, Art.

 

[gr82bart]

Here is it is people: Dead Link Removed

Regards, Art.

 

[SuzanneR]

Looks great Art. It will be excellent at the VPC with the APUG show still up, and it will be good to see Bob, and hear about everything he does!!

 

[winger]

You're really trying to make me wish I'd stayed up there! (it's sorta working)
I'd love to make it up for one of these!

 

[gr82bart]

Bethe,

We'd love to have you back here. You know it, we know it. Just drag the SO kicking and screaming. Use duct tape if you have to.

Regards, Art.

 

[gr82bart]

Hi Folks,

OK, Bob's seminar tour will begin February 5 at the VPC in Sprinfield, MA. The it's the SECCC on February 6 in Waterford, CT and finally the PAC on February 7 in New Haven, CT.

That said, if there are folks who can help Bob set up about a few hours before the start of the seminar at any one of the venues, please PM me your e-mail addy and phone numbers and I will pass it along to the respective people. Not looking for a lot of folks, just 1-2 for Bob to kick around and abuse. It's his form of BDSM love.

For the rest of you NEAPUGers, just show up!

Regards, Art.

 

[bill h]

Hi Art,

I hope to make it to the seminar, and thank you for putting it together. Couldn't get your link to work, though, but I did find information here:
Dead Link Removed

Bill

 

[gr82bart]

My apologies Bill. Hope you enjoy the seminar. Bob's a hoot and will entertain too as he informs.

Regards, Art.

 

[SuzanneR]

Thank you Bob, and Art, Gene and Christine of the VPC for hosting. Bob gave an excellent presentation, and it was great to see the superb printing he does, and great to see side by side comparisons with the same photographs of different processes.

It was well worth the drive for me.

One suggestion... make sure you've got the right start times for tonight and tomorrow. Bob's website said it started at 6pm, and it really started at 7pm. I arrived around a quarter to 6, and the place was closed. I thought I had driven an hour and a half on the wrong night!

Found everyone in the bar downstairs!!

 

[bdial]

I'm really bummed that I had to miss this, but glad to hear it went well. Thank you, Bob, Art, Gene, Christine for putting it on.

 

[Drew B.]

I'm sorry I missed it also...got out of work way too late to make the drive....

 

[papagene]

It was a very good evening indeed. Bob is a great guy. And the photos he showed were beautiful. For those who didn't make it... the last series of photos he showed would have been worth the price of travel!!!
I will post some digi-snaps of the evening soon. Right now I am just trying to relax as it was a very long day yesterday and I am still spent from it.
Thank you Bob, it was great to meet you.

gene

 

[bill h]

I concur. It was inspirational to see all those beautiful big prints. Bob is a very generous and open presenter, and a wicked good printer. Now, where did I put those 16x20 trays?

bill h

 

[papagene]

OK... here's a few digi-snaps from the lecture. Names of APUG'ers are:
#5 - on the far right with brown,yellow & white shirt is Gatsby1923 aka David Matuzsek
#6 - on the left you can see David again, I am wearing a gray & maroon rugby shirt and standing to my left is Bill Harting aka bill h.

 

[gr82bart]

Hi Folks,

Just got back yesterday evening. Sorry for being an absentee organizer. Definitely not the best way to organize an event - my apologies. After all the hype I was hoping to be at all three events. I hear from several folks this event went very well. Here's some quotes from a few attendees:

It was GREAT.

We both enjoyed him and his wife, Laura and his stories of what his work is like, getting to know people, how the photographers and the printers go to war with each other (power struggle, I guess How he would want to show more of the area on one print and the photographer didn't, wanting it darker in an area of the photograph.

Walt was surprised that Bob could work 7 days a week but he does take a week off every so often
It shows that he loves what he does in the quality of the photographs.

I really didn't know what to expect but the way the presentation was set up and shown to us and the narrative made it so worth while. To see the whole club guessing half and half on some of the questions of which print was made a certain way was astonishing. I never saw prints that looked that beautiful before <snip>

I loved the Tibetan people prints too. They are an inside peek at people I would never see otherwise or think about. I believe the owner of those prints will reap fortunes to have such photos.

Last night was fabulous! <snip> --we had a huge turn out--about 40 people! He made an excellent presentation and had everyone engaged.

One of the best photo workshops I've attended.

Shows that Bob is an engaging speaker and more importantly, he knows what he's talking about.

Hmmm ... now to set up something for the West Coast ...

Regards, Art.