AFTER A LONG QUIET TIME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HE IS BACK!

It's like I'm back in high school or college. The bigger my personal investment in a project, the harder it is for me to get going with it, the more I procrastinate until the last minute. And guess what? It's last minute: 9 days till show time 

This morning I sketched out how I imagine using the gallery space, and that has really helped me identify what it is I need to get done, which images I need to settle on, and how many I'll need.

Here's the sketch:

It's not like I haven't been busy.

I bought the 50" Plasma TV a few weeks ago, so I could burn it in and learn the ins and outs of it's built in slide show options. It works great. The scanned photos look nice that big. Some just work better that large. (Even at this size (1080p), we only see 25% of the photos true resolution because of display limitations.) But boy do all the imperfections in the negative pop out. Most of my time spent setting up the slide show of the scanned images is spent spotting spots. The Billy the Kid images was in such bad shape it took me 8 hours to clean up the spots.  

I've borrowed two iMacs from the school for two more slide shows, one of school photos, plays, sports, etc, and one for my newer digital images. 

Everything is setup for the reception on October 25th from 4:00 till 7:00pm.

The show cards are at the printers. Here's the front and back proofs they sent me. They'll be done Tuesday or Wednesday. Give me your address is you want one or both. (see Contact  in the contents.)

As you can see from the Checklist on the show layout, I've got 5 of the 10 images I need all done. (There's about 9 images vying for the last 5 spots.) Now I've got what's left of this 3 day weekend to get all the prints printed and delivered to Dominic, the framer, who can't start on them till the 13th. 

And I'm off. There's no time to waste. (Stop trying to make this post perfect and get on with it!)