ku # 680-82 ~ miscellanea

Bog detritus • click to embiggenSo I'm going through, via Bridge, my "finals" folder - pictures that are cooked and ready to go - looking for a picture that I had mis-labeled.

The very first thing that I noticed upon opening Bridge was that there are 2,210 items, aka - pictures, in the folder. Man, I had no idea that my "finals" count had reached that number. Truth be told, there might be a few clunkers in there but, even considering that unlikely possibility, that's still a lot of pictures.

Maybe its time to take a cue from Stephen Shore and his "lost" (no record exists) 1972 exhibition at Light Gallery wherein he exhibited 312 3×5 inch "drugstore" prints by gluing them to the walls in an even grid, 3 pictures high, running end-to-end, in no particular order.

The other thing I noticed after opening and printing the moldy-oldie triptych presented in this entry - made with either a Canon G3/4mp or G5/5mp P&S camera - was how beautifully they printed at a 13×39 inch size. The printed quality was virtually indistinguishable from a same size triptych print made from my Oly EP-1/E-3 files.

I mention this printing exercise because after reading about this unfortunate printing train wreck, I am happy as a clam that I have stuck with what works for me - Power Mac G5 / 1.8GHz + 4 GB RAM + OS 10.4.11 + CS3 + RawDeveloper 1.8.7 + Epson PRO7800 / ColorStylus 2200 + a to-hell-with-anymore-upgrades attitude.