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A Day in Centralia

May 5, 2018 By Peter J. Crowley 2 Comments

Rees visiting from Oregon today a photo and food stroll. History, reflections, signage hand painted sets a Walker Evans mood a time and place in the past. I had the great fortune to meet Walker. His work made a lasting impression on how I see and speak with my images. 

Coffee at the The Station Coffee Bar and Bistro. Folks love their work. Supreme ambiance and good coffee.

The Historic Train Station and Rees.

Lunch at The Olympic Club sitting on outdoor cafe. A bit of Walker appears in my images.

A round Oak and billiards at The Olympic Club a Mcmenamins Pub.

           enjoy pjc

The Watcher being watched

Filed Under: Adventure, Amtrak, Buy Local, Coffee, Color Fine Art, Great food for the mind and body, Olympia Wa., Railroad, Washington Tagged With: Ambiance, Color Fine Art, Great Food, Humanity, Street Photography

Print Sale 8×10’s $50

April 30, 2018 By Peter J. Crowley 1 Comment

Print Sale 8×10’s $50

Sale ends at noon PDT May 23rd

“Art takes time and time is money Money is scarce and that ain’t funny”…

“Money is rare there is none to be found so don’t think I’m tight if I don’t buy a round.” Ray Davies

If I don’t raise some cash I will be out of money by May 15th. I won’t starve but borrowing money  won’t solve the fact that Social Security and Face Book Likes won’t pay the bills. Cost cutting will mean I continue to create but for me and my online presence will be greatly diminished. Can’t afford a print mail a buck or whatever. PayPal on site but not for a buck. 

Print Sale 8×10’s $50 all prints are digital don’t see the one you like. Be bold email me which image you want most are available.

2017

2001 Whidbey Island

Uxbridge Door from tree series.

Seattle Japanese Garden 2001

peace pjc

When you visit my site look a more than a single page.

Flowers

Figures

Filed Under: Abstract, B+W Fine Art, Buy Local, Color Fine Art, Flowers, Norwich Ct, Olympia Wa., Photographic Art, Washington, Willimantic

The Art World, Today and Yesterday Forty Years of Observation

August 20, 2017 By Peter J. Crowley 3 Comments

In the seventies models paid photographers for sessions now everyone is a photographer and everyone is a “model” and “models” are paid by GWCs. Boobies for bucks.  A chuckle to start but truth is funnier than fiction.

Everybody is an artist. I noticed a shift in NPO grants in the late nineties community involvement. Turn of the century and the digital camera is now cheap enough for everyone. A few hundred dollars some software and how to make a © and you are a pro. Many understand when Walmart moves in small businesses are deleted. The informed local merchants, neighbors, friends replaced by cheap and goodnuff.  But the sudden modes and preset pros do not see the connection to Smugmug and other sites selling their technically goodnuff images for Walmart prices. Or giving them away for the glorious ego of publication.  The market crowded with emotional free cheap copies of the world. This trend of A.I. and creative choices moves over to graphic design my Asst Molly wanting to take a few GD classes at a local college was told by admission counselor  just get Photo Shop and you are all set. No need for concept or emotion just an app. There is no A.E. Artificial Emotion except in congress.

Contests, Juries and Vanity Galleries.

A contest I entered for Norwich Tourism/Revitalization “Picturing Norwich.”  Awarded Best in Show and little chance of being sold for tourism.

The concept of the contest. In Norwich a bank decided to put out a calendar so they had a contest. For a mere $25 you could enter as long as you released your rights of the image to the bank and all of their agents. So a thousand entries and the bank has a calendar, a tidy sum of cash and  photos to use for future advertisements. If the bank is really lucky their agent may find another buyer and sell their [formally you image] for profit. The Vanity Gallery rent the walls and the gallery is paid so they don’t need to do much promotion and everyone can have an exhibit. The juried show and fundraisers for the community where you have the privilege of giving your work away. I have done some of these I have also convinced organizations that a 50/50 sale is more fair. Artists are mostly poor here the artist and the organization split the sale. This way the quality of art will be better.

Painting with a broad stroke here and for forty plus years. There is more to the Art World and life than instant gratification or you last text message. Last a professional artist pays taxes on sales it’s good for the community.

peace pjc

 

Choice thoughts on creating from 2009 

Filed Under: Art, Artificial Intelligience, Buy Local, Choice, Creativity, Creativity or photography by numbers., Emotion, Small Business Tagged With: Humanity, Olympia, Small Business

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