Print Signed Name with airSlate SignNow

Print signed name

what's up everybody welcome back to the show I've got a couple things I want to share with you today and I want to start with some mail that I got there's some really outstanding things that a couple of people sent in and I want to start with this book which was sent to me by my friend Daphne Lee Daphne is an outstanding photographer she lives in New York and I actually had the chance to work with her earlier this year when I was in New York City and she sent me a copy of this book which is a collection of it's a body of work that she was working on earlier this year and this is the kind of culmination of that and she sent me a signed and numbered copy of half-read story and this is really really outstanding work Daphne's styled that she's approached with this body is it's more of a gritty street photography style I love this photo of the cigarette butts she does some really unusual things with cropping with composition and one of the things she does and actually this third image I believe is one them yeah she has this wonderful thing that she does using negative space and some of her images and as you could see that the negative space of the white space in the sense is here in this case is really dominant the image and it's made up of what's really sitting around the edges of the frame which draws your eye to the bird it reminds me a lot of a technique that photographer named Harry Callahan used and I've talked about Harry on the show it's been a long time but he did these wonderful images where he did a real similar thing but he was using multiple exposures and photo manipulation to do them and I really like the way that Daphne has embraced a lot of this but just does it in camera and she has a really mature sense of composition about her work I really like the tone in the feel that she gets with using the black and white images you know it definitely has an influence of street photography in it but I think she does something that's very unique and different and I really think very highly of her work and it was really an honor to work with her earlier this year it was really interesting she sent a really nice card along with this it says you had long time to see Miss having gelato with you in the winter we had gelato while I was up in New York and it was just freezing cold outside but it was funny she said it's funny that someone here on Instagram bought the book right away after he saw the pic of me and the others on your Instagram account I owe you this one haha sending this book to you as a thank you and you know what Daphne thank you this is a real treat and I have quite a nice little collection of books from viewers of the show and this is gonna go right in the collection I'm very honored that you sent this to me and I will link up to Daphne's website go follow her on Instagram I'll put all of her details below and if she has if she's still selling copies of this book I don't know how many she made I highly recommend you check it out really wonderfully done so thanks Daphne okay so this next package that I want to share with you guys is very special to me and at the same time it's a little bit bittersweet to share and let me start by showing you some of these images this is a small portfolio of prints that my friend Tammy Ruggles sent you might know Tammy through the comments on the show she participates quite often and she sent me a wonderful little collection of black-and-white still-life photos of botanicals a lot of macro shots and these are really really beautiful and they're really special Tanny probably knows that I'm a complete sucker for black and white botanical shots anyway I'm a huge car Lassa felt fan I love Tom Burrell I've talked about him on the show before and I think she's done some really interesting work on these what you probably don't know about Tammy is that she is legally blind and I met Tammy via email a while back and we've become friends communicating back and forth and the first contact I had from Tammy she sent me an email and explained her situation being legally blind and asked me I love this to this shot from the ground up the question she had asked me and this was kind of tough to answer actually but she asked me if she was wasting your time trying to be a photographer and she has a degenerative disease that eventually will take her eyesight and this is a really that's a tough email to get from somebody you know especially and you guys all understand too that you know photography is really important to all of us and you know there's something about art that extends past it has an enormous impact on our lives it's not something that exists is camera model or a lens or a paintbrush or it's something about art that communicates something to us on a much higher level and so to get an email like that obviously is very difficult the best reference point that I've got this is what I shared with Tammy is back when I worked at the Dallas Museum of Art I got to do one of the it was one of the things that was really special to me my friend Amanda works there and she was working with programs for people with disabilities so this could be physical disabilities like loss of senses like eyesight as well as people who had difficulties with mental capacities so there was a class for adults with Alzheimer's for instance and it was a way for people to come have an experience with art despite these disabilities and when I helped her out and took photographs for a few times it was particularly moving and there was one in particular where it was a group of kids who were visually impaired and we took them out to the sculpture garden and I photographed this class that was going on and they were having this experience touching sculptures and most of these kids had never had that experience with art and it was so moving to see their reactions as they were engaging with these giant sculptures and how this relates to photography I'm not exactly sure but and I'll link this up in the show notes there was a gentleman who was a painter who's extremely good named John Bramblett and John did a lot of work with us at the museum and John is completely blind and he has this interesting thing that he does with portraits where he will touch someone's face and then draw it and he's extremely good with this wild colors that he's got going on in there there's a really nice video that explains and I'll find that and I'll link it up in the show notes as well so I shared that with Tammy and tried to encourage her as best I could and anyway so yesterday this package arrived and I opened it before I started recording here and there's a letter now I did email Tammy and asked her if I could share this and of course she was on cloud nine she was ecstatic and I was a little bit I mean this is kind of sad just to read and I want to share part of this with you and Tammy writes in one of your videos you encouraged photographers to print their photos so I followed your advice and I printed these final ones to send to you five botanicals as my photography has come to an end I put my camera away yesterday I've been shooting steadily since 2013 that's two years and in those two years I put two thousand images in my portfolio and this includes photos and she does some digital artwork as well and mm sounds like a nice round number at which to stop and I knew this time would come as I wanted to take pictures while my vision allowed it I am happy with the collection of images I have and now it's time to move on to the final part which is trying to get them into exhibitions and I've tried to record this several times and obviously this I'm sure it's hitting everybody who photography is important to you and you know what a gift that has been Tammy and I want to talk to you on here too to have that opportunity and I think that the process of making art and photography has obviously affected you and you've taken part in that when she emailed me back and said it was cool that I went ahead and did this on the show one of the things that made me really happy in there is that tonight she's actually doing her first art opening and I thought that was really cool Tammy my only advice is I hope that this isn't the end totally there I'm sure is a physical frustration of being able to work with a camera with limited eyesight and I understand that but I hope and I encourage you to work past that in a sense that there's a lot of stuff that you can do with a disability and and this is what I mean and I know that sounds really that really Sennett goofy for me to say but let me explain this I think that after having seen my friend Amanda who worked with people with disabilities and having these experiences with art there's two things that come to mind one that art music whatever that is it there's such a deeper thing than just seeing something and reacting to it there's something that means something there to people and I hope that you got that out of this two years I know you did because we've we've talked and I think personally it's something that those of us that don't have those disabilities it's really easy for us to take for granted a lot of times or it's really easy for us because we don't have that difficulty that's put into place we tend to dwell on things like getting into equip or we tend to dwell on things like process too much or where there's something that's being commuted there that's really important and anyway I wanted to share this and why it was really important for me to do that with you guys is that I'm sure there's other people out there that are like this as well and it's something that is really not talked about very much it's something that despite that is very touching on the same level and so I want to cover this actually in an episode later and I don't want to do it right now one we're just opening mail and stuff but I also want to see if I can get somebody like my friend Amanda to come on and talk to that too who is much more experts in that field than I am anyway I think it's a it's a fascinating topic and Tami I want to just say that I'm really proud of you you've become a good friend since we've started chatting even though we've never met in person and I am honored that you sent this to me this is a really special collection of work and what I want to do is get these framed and put them up because this really it means a lot to me that you sent these to me and there's a real story behind all that and I've only kind of touched the surface on that with everybody else who's watching it but anyway Tammy thank you this is extremely special and I wanted to share that with everybody and I'll link some stuff up in the show notes as well so thank you so the last thing I want to show you was this and this did not come from a viewer this came from YouTube and this is well I'm going to open it and show you here this is a plaque that they sent that represents it's a silver play button and they give these to people who pass the benchmark of getting 100,000 subscribers and I did a show on that when we hit that number a while back and YouTube sent this to me and you know really I'm not the kind of person who and and this is probably not a good thing necessarily but you know I'm really bad about celebrating small victories on things because I'm always thinking about the next thing and where we gonna go next what's the next show and it's interesting because I was thinking about this and I decided I wanted to share this on the show because it is kind of a cool deal and it doesn't represent necessarily it's not about me it's about you and I wouldn't have the show if it weren't for you guys and so this is a reminder of all of you and I think this is a pretty cool deal to get actually and like I said it's like I you know I left my job last year to do this show full-time and I don't regret that at all there's a lot of sacrifices that come into play when you do that you give up a steady paycheck things are more inconsistent and I worked a lot in my last job and I have never worked harder on my life on this show it really never stops you know weekends and evenings are usually spent thinking of show ideas larger projects that could be working on you know all that stuff and so anyway all that to say is this represents you guys and this is for you and so I just wanted to thank all of you and my little moment of celebration I just wanted to go so I want to talk about a couple projects real quick that I've got going on and answer some questions that people have had about them lately and the first one I want to talk about is the John free video and I've had a couple people asked me when this is going to be up and live and the answer is I apologize it's not up yet but it'll be up when it's ready this is a very different video than what we've done a lot of in this show and I want to make sure that it's right for those of you who don't know a couple weeks ago was in Los Angeles I have a video on it already that's up and I had a photography lesson with John free my friend Gary Thursby came out and ran second camera thank you Gary and we had just a blast it was the most it was the most amazing day of just spending the day on Santa Monica Pier and soaking up John and his knowledge and his shtick and he was just fabulous I have a very special place for John he is an amazing photographer I had just a blast doing that and he was really nice enough to let me record that so I could share it with you guys so I talked to John afterwards and we were talking about what we could use for some images and supplemental stuff and he said well he said I some of the images I made the dam actually very happy with and would you include those in the show and I said sure I said do you want to do scans or whatever John sent me a FedEx package that contained this and inside here are 17 five by seven handmade prints that John did in the darkroom shots he did that day and I don't really want to share these but all right I'll show you one this is really gonna be cool this is a group of boys under the Santa Monica Pier there's 17 of these in here and they need to be in with the Edit and I want to emphasize the fact that John did these by hand and this is it's really gonna be cool it's really exciting so thank you for your patience on this and I'm sorry that I'm not getting to it earlier than I am but like I said it just needs to be right and that's the least I can do to respect John on that so anyway it is coming so don't worry the second thing I want to talk about is the contrast project and I'm about to have some updates on this it is still going full speed ahead I've got another interview that I've got to do actually two interviews that I'm wrapping up and there's another piece that I'm working on for it so we will have a launch date this fall for the first issue if you're not familiar with contrast this is an online publication that I'm gonna be doing that is gonna be a little bit supplemental to what we do here on the art of photography and I'm excited about this because it's gonna give a little bit of a different platform for doing things so it being that we do videos here this will give us a place to do portfolios written interviews tutorials things of that nature this will be published seasonally and the first one will be out this fall so I hope I will have a published date for the first issue pretty soon here and as many of you know Squarespace is behind this they have been a longtime sponsor of the show and they are sponsoring this project and I've been using Squarespace to build a lot of this out and I'm really impressed I have used Squarespace in the past mainly as a demo for the show and they've been a great sponsor and I used to build websites Squarespace is so easy and the thing I love the most about it is allows me just to work on the magazine and the content that I'm writing and then you just build it everything is drag-and-drop it's very visually centered Squarespace works in what they call blocks and so if you go over to their account or their website and just sign up for a free account you don't need a credit card anything you can kind of mess around in here you build a page and then you insert blocks into the page and the cool thing about blocks is they can be an image it can be text a block can be an image gallery you know you can click on something and it opens up in a lightbox effect it could be audio files it can be graphs and charts so anyway you put these blocks together and then you can just click and drag them around to align them on the page and everything is just so easy and so anyway go over there and check it out and if you decide you want to subscribe and build your next project on Squarespace I have an offer code that will get you 10% off your order if you use offer code AOP on checkout that stands for the art of photography AOP and that'll get you an additional 10% off so I want to just a quick thanks to Squarespace for once again sponsoring another episode of the art of photography and for being behind this project it means a lot and I'm really excited about and I will have more news to share in the coming weeks as we move forward on that anyway I want to thank everybody who sent stuff in the mail to Daphne and Tammy both I it the stuff like this is really exciting for me when I see work from you guys as viewers and some of these projects are really outstanding Daphne your book is fabulous and Tammy if you're still watching congratulations on your show tonight I wish I could be there Texas is a little far from Ohio but I so proud that this is all worked out and I'm excited for your first show so anyway guys that's about all I got for today if you enjoyed this video please like it and share it with your friends and as always remember to subscribe to the art of photography so you'll always be up-to-date on all the latest and greatest videos that we do here I've got a lot of cool stuff coming up as you can see and so subscribe so you'll get notified when videos go live anyway guys once again I'll see you in the next video later