To my great delight (and surprise) I have had one of my large format prints selected for the Center for Photographic Art 2025 Juried Exhibition, and so have spent much of this week working on getting it over there.

It’s been quite a challenge. It’s one my bigger prints, and framed it’s just shy of the 30” exhibition limit. It was mounted to start with, but it needed framing, which I decided to do myself for the sake of speed (though got the wood from the Lion’s chop service). I then spent a couple of days manufacturing a bespoke crate for it, which was fun, but it took more time than I expected.

Then there were several shipping hurdles, it took me a half a day to organise that only to discover my bespoke crate was 3mm bigger than a UPS standard shipping size, so extra for oversized package! Fortunately I have had some extra time this week due to my autumn photography trip being cut short by a root canal treatment (I know, ‘fortunately’ and ‘root canal’ in the same sentence seem incongruous).

Anyway, I am not sure it has sunk in yet, it’s getting packaged later today and will go tomorrow. It will be a few very tense days while waiting to see if it gets there undamaged …

Black and white photograph of a wind swept Scottish loch with hills in the background Wind on Loch Druim Suardalain (Assynt, Scotland)

(The real thing is a handmade 18” x 14” silver gelatine print on fibre based paper, selenium toned.)