I was pleasantly surprised to have people coming into the gallery on such a wintery Saturday afternoon. Basically, there was someone visiting the gallery the entire time I was there. Including these three high school students from Richmond Hill. When I was in highschool, I don’t think I was culture enough to ever visit a gallery, at least not intentionally. But the three came in and spent a good chunk of time really looking at the work. In the end, they even bought some prints from Sam and Adam, which I thought was quite surprising. But what really impressed me was the fact that two of them, Sarah and Myles were both toting around 35mm SLRs around their neck. Seriously, who does that now a days.
I asked them if either had a photoblog or account on flickr, and Myles admitted, he has been meaning to start a flickr account for quite some time now. So it was even more of a surprise to find an email in my inbox this evening from Myles, telling me about his newly started stream, which already has almost 100 images.
Around the same time, my friend Stefan showed up with his awesome new polaroid pinhole camera. Basically it was made from this retro Niagara Falls tin. I had always been fascinated by pinhole, but after talking with Stefan, I think I might be prepared to finally try one on my own. Pictured above is the one minute exposure we took of me at the gallery. It was handheld, so it was far from being crisp. I’m hoping, he’ll help me make one in the new year. Check out his polaroid pinhole set on flickr.
the new generation, as they say?