Every two years CityArts and the Red Line Gallery at Lawrence Photo host the ProAm Photograpy Show. Professional and serious amateur photographers show their best, or at least favorite, few works of the previous two years. All images will be for sale, so bring your checkbook and support a local photoperson.
Artists’ reception at both galleries are 6-10pm Friiday, July 31, but the exhibit will remain through August.
CityArts is at 334 N.Mead, east of the Old Town Warren Theater.
The Red Line Gallery is at Lawrence Photo, 401 E.Douglas.
People often ask me if I always carry a camera. The answer is yes, well, I almost always have one nearby. I was glad I was packing heat (in the form of a Canon 5D Mark II) while flying home from Florida recently when I saw this beautiful sunset. It’s nice to be prepared. I usually travel light while I’m not working and often carry a Canon G9. It’s a fantastic point-and-shoot camera that gives me a lot of manual control.
I’m not a huge fan of shooting baseball (there’s too much time sitting around waiting on some action for me), but I do enjoy some things about being at the park. I like to work on my tan and there’s usually a Little League team that joins the Minor League guys on the field while the National Anthem is played. It’s pretty fun to watch the tiny guys on the giant field.
Final Friday gallery crawl, Fisch Haus.
To cope with the erratic Kansas weather, remember to dress in layers and wear boots.
Waiting for the big fireworks show from atop the Riverwalk parking garage, I enjoyed the atmosphere of people in pickup beds, car trunks, on blankets spread out on the concrete and in camp chairs.
And I was intrigued by the mixture of light. The canopy of fading skylight cast an umbrella of blue while headlights raked across bodies and sodium-vapor security lights highlighted chrome and shiny paint.
This is the kind of work a rangefinder camera is best suited for. A big honkin’ SLR around my neck would have been as effective as wearing a sandwich board reading, “Stand aside; photographer coming through.”
The small, quite camera with a fast lens in the hand is not only more discrete but a whole lot less intimidating. People would have been aware of me either way, I’m certain. I didn’t sneak up on anyone and made the lap around the circuit several times. Simply put, a rangefinder is more benign.
All you shutterbugs get your tripods out for the big fireworks show tonight!