Hello All

Thanks for the wishes ahead of the launch.

My God I'm still on cloud 9. The opening happened last night and was attended by I think 80-90 people, wine glasses in hand. Feedback on the night was brilliant, longstanding friends saying 'knew you took photo's but....! ' or ' heard you mention before - never realised...'

Hardest job in the final days was not what photos to put on the walls - it was what NOT to put on the walls. Huge lesson if any 'catters go the same direction, to balance colour V's theme etc - some of my favourites just had to go on a shelf - else the wall would be cluttered.

Ended up with five walls - simple clean single lines of 10x8's black card frame mounted. Above which were 20x12 canvas (photo on canvas) and 20x12 print (black card frame mount also)

I think about 70 images alltold.

For the remainder photo's in the collection, ran them on a slideshow projected onto spare wall. Worked brilliant, gave a changing visual backdrop as people were talking, avoiding people leaving early and in at least one case I know of made a sale by virtue of a 10x8 being sold as 20x12 - because the projector showed it's scaled effect.

Nerves finally got to me as I said my few words, but exhaustion - Bang - today has been a wrecker....

Thanks for letting me ramble, until I get my own website running - which I definitely am going to do now, I'm going to continously add to the link above. Will submit the walled exhibits first, and post back here if you want to re-visit.

And still the day job to attend to...

Diesel !