Art Cards

My very first camera was a Kodak Instamatic X-15F that my Uncle George got for me when I was 10. I loved that thing and dragged it around with me everywhere, thus beginning my collection of “arty” nature photographs.

I soon realized that compared to my mother’s Canon (an AL-1 perhaps?), it was a piece of plastic (meant in the derogatory way). After pestering to borrow hers for years, she broke down and got me my own Minolta XG-1 for Christmas when I was 15. I got to test it out for the first time in Hawaii of all places.

What followed was years worth of nature photos, my favourites being those taken on trips and whatnot, like this one I snapped in France.

When I started attending craft fairs and hosting sales, I thought I might try to sell some of these images as art cards.

I tended towards using images from the places I had visited – like these from the west coast.

But it wasn’t long before I was appreciating the beauty of home, snapping photos right in my own “back yard”.

Nothing quite like using the extreme cold for inspiration too.

As I was scanning these, I realized that if I ever want to do art cards again, none of these SLR images will ever be used again. Not that I don’t already have a wealth of digital images to choose from…

But art cards are a hard sell (comparatively). As it is, I have a stack of the old cards that I have no idea what to do with. They always seem to get thrown back in the bin at sales as there is never enough room for things. Anybody want them? I’ll sell ‘em to you on the cheap.