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COUCH ART UPDATE

ONE AWAY FROM the big 50!

I managed two more couches to make fifty last week, but unfortunately one just did not make the cut. So we are at 49 and holding. IF YOU see a couch on the street curbs of Denton – one of the fastest growing metro areas in the USA – contact me right away, and I will break through that big 50 number

NEW EPSON PRINTER ROCKS

New prints coming from my Epson P600 are fantastic! I hadn’t upgraded my printers in a few years, but with the closing of one door (at City of Denton), I am pushing another door open — artwork and printing artwork for myself and others. Those “others” would be artists and photographers WHO CARE about reproducing their artwork as accurately and archive-ally as possible. Epson archival life is rated at 200-years for black&white and 400-years for color. I remember one critic of a person I was printing for (old school), who lamented the fact the prints I was making would last a hundred years. Harsh, but it can be true.

FAST FORWARD – PRINTING FOR LOCAL ARTISTS

Here is a file from Mark Hutchison’s work. It will be available for purchase along with several other printed images — this weekend in Denton at the Armadillo Ale Works 10-5 Saturday only. It’s LESLIE’S BACK YARD ART SHOW! She’s been doing the show since 2014, so this makes the 5TH. anniversary of her show.

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Action Packed Weekend

Friday night was under the lights once again. This time all the way to the outskirts of San Angelo, Texas, to photograph the Aubrey football game in the colder and damper than last week stadium in Clyde, Texas. Thank goodness Clyde had LED lighting in their stadium, and I still get good results even though the push is to 3200. I’ve been pushing a long time …

Aubrey high school sports football action photography.
My rules for sports are simple, and violated here in the interest of peak action. The rule: Hands. Ball Face. Two-out-of-three worked this time.

Two more couches made the grade this past weekend, and it was like a community thing — just two blocks apart. Denton seems to have “couch hatches” where they just come up from nowhere, and then they’re gone. I am two couches away from my “First 50 Couches” project being complete, with as much as whimper as a bang.

I will be adding to my Denton Stock Photography this week as well. The images are from the Denton Farmer’s Market and the most recent UNT Homecoming Parade. Funny about that parade; it looked like the last homecoming parade – almost exactly – and that must have been more than a decade ago. Strange how some things never appear to change, isn’t it? The same can be said for photography, but much more concisely: IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE. That may be hard for today’s youngsters to believe, but it’s true.

I can imagine someone has even taken it on themselves to spend two years of their valuable lives chasing down couches on streets somewhere other than here in Denton. I can imagine it, but I have never seen it, but because I have never seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. Take that to heart.

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