My first photo exhibit!

[dreilly]

I'm very excited. I had the opening for my first-ever photo show last night, and it was a good time with nice turnout.

A few weeks back the owners of the Red Dove Tavern, here in Geneva, NY, approached me with the idea to start using their walls for rotating art exhibits. They heard (from a mutual friend) that I was a photographer and wanted to see some of my work. Since I run a gallery at the college where I work (pretty modest--it's for returned study abroad students to display their travel photography, some of which is really incredible.).

Well, after years of printing and curating their shows, I got to do my own! It was a ton of work to set up. The show is about 30 photographs, taken from 1999 to the present. The oldest ones on my Nikon FM2, the more recent ones with my Olympus 35LC (which never ceases to please me) and Canon 7 with the 50/1.8 (which is really growing on me) and on various digital cameras (C-4040, Nikon D70, Oly E-1). You can check out the show images here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/borgesaleph/sets/72157606061468212/

Without cheating by looking at the image data, can you tell which were shot on film?

 

[shadowfox]

Congratulations! and thank you for educating your viewers that film is still a valid medium for photography.

Nice, peaceful photos. It's nice to see a gallery that is not filled with edgy or angst these days.

 

[pesphoto]

Congrats on the show!!

 

[SolaresLarrave]

My most sincere congratulations! I'm glad to see you're getting recognition! 🙂 I liked a lot of your photos, so you must have done a very good job at editing. One poignant one: the still-life (something like "Unedited 003"), but there are several. And some have a very nicely done OOF areas.

Will you sell prints? Go ahead and try! 🙂

 

[TimSmith-Laing]

Congratulations! Lovely shots...it looks like it'll be a really nice collection as a real show (rather than this phony internet business).

Well done!

 

[dreilly]

Thanks for the comments. I always try to be this edgy, dark guy, but it never lasts long. The same with mix tapes (ok, cds) I can't ever sustain too many rockers before the ballads and other slow stuff creeps in.

I am selling the prints, and I already sold two!

I agree that it's nice to have photos in the really existing world.

One photo friend told me "Those are some really nice black and white conversions." and I kinda giggled because they're not conversions but scans of black and white film.