Photo Contest at the Matrix

If you attend the Artist Reception at the Matrix Fine Art Gallery in Nob Hill on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 starting at 5 pm, you can enter a very special photo contest that takes place that night:


Join the photographers of this exhibit at Matrix Fine Art for an
Artist's Reception, January 6, 2012 5-8pm.
In honor of this special New Year's 2012 First Friday Artscrawl,
there will be a photography contest at the gallery, with the
winner receiving a Think Tank Airport Airstream
Rolling Camera Bag, with a value of $299.75!
 • Please read the rules and regulations, below,
for a complete description of the contest...

Minie and You!Win a Think Tank Camera Bag by submitting a photo of Minie taken at the Artscrawl First Friday Photographer’s Reception, January 6, 2012,  at Matrix Fine Art!

Rules & Regulations:• All attendees present at the opening are eligible to shoot
• You must register for the session and a donate a minimum of $5 (to go toward the model sitting fee) for a two-minute session
• There will be a limit of 40 registrants
• All registrants will be eligible to send their selected images to Matrix Fine Art for the winning image selection. All entries will be posted on the Matrix Fine Art Gallery blog. Coordinators for the 2011/2012 1x15 Invitational Exhibit Show and Sale will select the winning image, and the prize of a Think Tank Photo Airport Airstream roller camera bag ($299.75 value), will go to the winning photographer.

Registration and Photography Process:• Registration will commence at 5:00pm, January 6, 2012, at Matrix Fine Art, and last until 5:30pm.
• All registrants who have paid the $5 minimum fee will be given a ticket.
• At 6pm, that evening, a line will form and each qualified registrant will be allowed a two-minute shoot.
• Minie will be stationed in the middle of the exhibit area, and will have access only to a chair for a prop.
• Registrants can elect to photograph her with or without the chair.
• Minie will be photographed as she is, with no additional clothing requests, in order to keep the “playing field” equal for all, except for one’s own personal vision.
• There will be an entry limit of one image from each registrant. Pick your best!• Any and all photographic mediums are allowed: cell phones, digital/film cameras, 4x5, 8x10, whatever method registrant chooses will be accepted, but the time limit at the Gallery will be strictly enforced.
• If you have any questions at all about this contest, please email tim@cygnetpress.com.  

Deadline for image entries:
Entries will need to be submitted to director@matrixfineart.com by January 31, 2012. Entries will be uploaded to the Matrix Fine Art blog on a first-come first-served basis, with the winner being selected February 3, 2012.

See you at the opening! 

Working on my 1 x 15 Project (sneak peek)

15 photographers. One model. I started this project last summer for a show scheduled for December 2010. It got postponed for December 2011 and it will be at the Matrix Fine Art Gallery in Nob Hill. To get into this show, it was by invitation only, so I am deeply honored to have been asked.

Because I knew my schedule last fall was going to be limited with my Artist in Residence at the Petrified Forest National Park in October, I scheduled my photo shoot for September and got that part done. I had planned to work on the post processing part in November. Which I did-and was nearly done when I was told about the postponement. And, would I be interested in participating in 2011? Of course, I said. Ah, but the catch was that the model we were using for the show became too ill to continue with the others. A new model was found so I would have to re shoot everything. As Eeyore would say, "oh, bother!" OK. Good excuse to try out another idea I had in mind. I wanted to do a life sized version of a shrine I had made for an on-line charity project (the shrine was 8" by 8" just to give you a sense of scale). Here's what it looked like:

And so, a few weeks ago I finally got the photo shoot done. It took me a while to get to that part of the project since I had a dress to construct (a labor intensive pain in the you know what). A friend of mine in Wisconsin, Joe Spado, made the dream catcher.

Here's a test shot 

I won't say what else I am doing-I hope you are curious enough to come to the show in December on the first Friday in Nob Hill. Matrix Fine Art Gallery. Adjacent to New Grounds Print, so there will be plenty to see as they always have a demo going on at first Friday.

Oh, wait-another really interesting twist to this show. The model is also a photographer. She is one of the 15 photographers. Is your head spinning yet??? I LOVE it!  I'm hedging my bet that her piece will be amongst the most riveting-just by sheer virtue of the approach.