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downtown Main Street and it's also known as the Carmel Art District I want to talk to you a little bit about exhibiting your images in a gallery we have a show going right now it's a show for Indianapolis artists and I'm one of them Evan Laurie gallery is a huge facility and one of the top galleries in the country and it's got some remarkable art and it's also one of those prestigious places that if you can have your art shown here it's really good this is my second time I've had a show here the person curating the show and she's a very talented person who named Susan brewer wanted specific pieces so that the show kind of synchronized together if I could say that so she thought some of my ice photographs would be really nice and we went through my portfolio and a lot of my images and we selected an iceberg from Greenland and ice cave from Iceland and the ice wall and kind of an ice cap from the South barred region in the Polar Circle and I made those very large 44 by 50 some-odd inches each of them I print everything on an Epson 9900 and I work with image print which is my print driver it's a rip there's articles on our site about that also as well as some videos and then immediately went and had him framed by a local framer who did a bang-up job for us he worked with me to find the right frames for the big images which was kind of a neutral gray frame about two inches with a tad of green flat color in it rather than the museum black which is sometimes used and they just framed out perfectly we put a mat around them with a little space around the edge of the photographs and I signed each of the prints signatures are very important don't forget sign all your work sign all your work sign all your work because if you go away it's the way the work is only worth something if your signatures on it so you know anything that you keep that you're gonna keep make sure you sign framed or not we used acrylic on the big prints just because the glasses we're going to be way too heavy then we used a special archival glass on the smaller images the three images that are small are about 15 16 inches square with the image inside I'm being around 12 inches and they really look nice they're from a project I did called being square seeing double and one is of a plane in Iceland that you all know the plane that crashed many years ago one is of office building in Toronto which is kind of when you look at it one of those like psychiatry pictures where you know you look at it and you're supposed to say what's it make me think of and the other one is Grand Central Station real fun place to photograph regardless of whether you're doing double exposure or not so those are the three black and whites the color ones we selected we wanted to go all with ice we decided the theme there should be ice so rather than do Southwest or a variety of images I selected an iceberg from the scores very sound workshop that I did and Greenland and it's just a magnificent blue iceberg against sunrise I selected the ice wall from in Salib art with waterfalls coming off at it's backlit you can see the birds in the the water and in the sky it's kind of a reference shot and then I did an ice cave from Iceland and that was shot during one of our winter workshops a year or so ago in Iceland and it's really kind of cool because you're actually underneath the 60-foot thick glacier and it just has this magnificent color and you know water running through it and you can walk all the way back sometimes you know hundreds of feet so anyway those are the images we selected and we price them a lot of the work in here is going for over ten thousand dollars so these large prints will go for over 2,000 frames as they're presented and the smaller ones around 800 bucks I'm having a quite a nice Thursday night opening here it's quite exciting a lot of people coming in and seeing the work and looking at it but the advantage of going to a gallery like this is that the gallery is just not to show the gallery is because the gallery owner has connections all over the world goes to a lot of Art Fair so your work is exposed to a lot of high-end buyers in addition to that there's also a huge connection with the commercial decorators side of things but that's part of the advantage of working with the gallery as they your work is not just the people that walk in and see it it's also the people that they know that see it around the world after the show comes down it'll probably go in their collection and be taken to some art fairs and the gallery owner is already talking to me about doing a whole show which would be quite spectacular but framed and a new method I don't want to go into that method now coz it'd be a whole other project and if it does I think it's going to be it'll really make little the images look stunning and quite excited to maybe share that with you in a future video I'm a photographer and I'm an artist the way I got introduced to this gallery is in Indianapolis and I believe probably in many places around the country there is what's called First Fridays and I went to an exhibit here on a first Friday and it was really nice a lot of good paintings and sculpture but I had asked the owner I said that do you ever thought about putting photography and so I said let me show you a couple of pieces of my work see what you think I just be curious to get some feedback now this is where the iPad comes in handy because I can carry the iPad around and I have a portfolio and I can like wow look at this this this and you know he he picked three or four pieces that he liked and when I walked out of that gallery of that night I actually took those pieces selected him and put his email address in and mailed them to him and said it was really nice talking to you I love the opportunity to sit down with you further and show you more of my photography and talk about how he possibly can work together well it wasn't long thereafter that I was invited to my first show here and it was very successful and we had big five foot by seven foot prints all done with the phase one camera and it was really really good and you know found really well for us I pushed my work I kind of said hey here it is and I followed up and you know made a conscious effort to say you know I want you to see my work and want you to understand what photography is it's so different there's only been two photographers that I know of that have shown your work here and it's privileged to do that and it's kind of honor honored to do that but it's so nice to watch people come in and walk up to your images and look at them and you know just up five feet away and then step a little bit closer and a little bit closer and immerse themselves they look at the details in the shot take your portfolio it could be in a book that be on an iPad whatever you want but take it around and show some people what you do and you know tell them hey have you thought about putting some of this on the wall if you don't want to do gallery do a coffee shop for a restaurant or a barber shop you know any place barber shops are great cuz people got to sit there for a while and you know put your images on the wall behind the mirror and as they're sitting there looking in the mirror to see in your photography think of all the possibilities of ways that you can get your photography out there and you know don't forget to do social media and advertise and push and push and push but I know that's what I do my passion is photography simple as that that's what I like to do is what I do all the time you know photographing and taking that picture is therapy for me but making the print and then watching people enjoy your photography at a show like this puts it all together and you know you kind of sit back and go that's why I do it I hope you've enjoyed this video if you liked it don't forget to hit the subscribe button and there's a little bell down there you can subscribe and be notified when we do new videos and look for some of the other stuff we're doing I'm Kevin Raber and I'll see you on the luminous landscape" }