the matting and drymounting school of trial and error

[lee]

All,
Yesterday Jeremy Moore ventured down to the south end of Tarrant County Texas and visited my new darkroom. We spent several hours there talking and he watched while I put the D2 together. I gave him a lesson on matt cutting and drymounting. We then went to eat some salad. A good time was had by all. He is gonna scan some of my prints so that I can upload some to the galleries. It was a nice day until I got home and found that the wife's car would not start and her mom needed to go to the hospital. Well, the car started and we got her to the hospital (she is in her 80's). I assume that she was admitted and at least is spending the night.

lee\c

 

[Aggie]

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[Jeremy]

Lee, I'm sorry to hear about the car and your wife's mother... send her my best wishes.

As to the drymounting... I'm now eagerly searching for a cheap drymount in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as it makes the matting so much easier (to me) than the process with taping.

The mat lee cut looks great while mine appears to the naked eye to be a little off (hey, it was the first real mat I've ever cut!). I must say that I wish I'd started "finishing" my work years ago as the presentation of a piece greatly adds to the look of the image--though no finishing will make a bad image better. I've ordered two frames which will be here next week and will get the images up on the wall.

lee was extrememly helpful and his darkroom is shaping up wonderfully and will look amazing when he's finished. I wish I didn't live so far away (45min-1hr) or I'd try to get in on it! I've only printed with a condensor and color head and he showed me his cold light head. I must say that anyone who has never seen one it's actually quite surreal to see an enlarger emitting such a brilliant blue and/or green.

It was definitely a great afternoon and I'm looking forward to meeting him again after I scan his images for him.