I became a member of the Belmont Arts Council earlier in the year, and now have a couple of photographs in their two month Holiday show.  They have two more as ‘back up’,  just in case either of these get sold.  Wouldn’t that be nice?

Wendell Shinn, the He in the 3 Shes + 1 He, made a lovely little slideshow of our weekend do in North Beach. See it here:

Next year we’ve decided to avoid Columbus Day/Fleet Week weekend! Lots of people came each day – but many never made it. So sorry about the traffic!
If you missed it, you can see a slideshow of everything I had in the show here.

Getting down to the wire. 30 prints framed and standing up blocking most of my access to the room, waiting for packing and carting to the Live Worms gallery for this weekend’s show. The 30+ unframed works are already packed in the car. It’s been a busy, crazy couple of months getting ready, meeting with the other 2 shes and the 1 he to make decisions and sort out details. Now we’re praying that the forecasted rain will have passed – I’m sure the Blue Angels are on that same prayer track – and that people will actually come. I hope you’ll be one of them!

Had a great week at the Russian River this month and the day trip to Fort Ross on the California’s Northern Coast held many photographic treasures.  A few of them here, but larger ones in the portfolio.

I got a call from a local gallery, The Artists Alley, last week and it turns out they were having a one night show on Saturday to announce their acquisition of a liquor license.  They invited me to bring a couple of pieces for their bar opening.  What was really fascinating was the method they used to attract street traffic – or maybe I’m just too old to know what’s hip these days.  Anyway, the body painting was as interesting to look at as the art.

Left: all but the shorts & the shoes is painted on; Right: my works - pails by comparison! A fun night though.

I’ve always loved gazing at Buddha statues and this weekend I found several that I photographed.  Seemed logical to start a new portfolio category of Buddhas, so I did.  I hope you enjoy them.  You can see them all  here.  The new additions are below:

I finally got to see one of my photographs in situ. Thought I’d share.

'Martini Glasses' hanging on a wall - right next to the bar!