Art shows

I spoke with the art director for a coffeeshop here and I'm scheduled to display my photos there during the month of May. I'll post more details when I know them. Not a bad birthday present huh?

I also have talked to the art director for the Staggering Ox in Helena, and he wants me to bring some photos in to talk to him about when and where to put them. That will have to wait til at least next weekend, however.

Business cards!

So I've been trying to put some effort into Sydian Photography, hoping to turn it from a side project to side income. To this end, I've recently ordered and received my first three canvas prints, and 500 business cards. This is the image used on the cards, though with the name and website written above and below respectively. The back side of the card is home to my rainbow picture. :)

I've started talking to some people at the coffee shops around town looking to get my work displayed as well, and posted the canvas prints for sale on a site called Etsy.com, online sales of arts/crafts/supplies. I'm trying to be realisitic in that photography is a vast market, especially without a real niche. Also, I'm very much inexperienced and untrained, learning as I go but without the finances available at the moment for classes or more equipment. So at the moment, I'm carefully optimistic that I should be able to progress from this being a money drain to at least a sustaining side project where I'm not just dumping cash into my prints and equiment. Either way though, I'm having fun.