psephy's pic of the day: Day 179 2015: When blogging photographing mates get together....

Sunday 28 June 2015

Day 179 2015: When blogging photographing mates get together....

Day 179: ...for Ekka challenges

***The subject of today's post might just coincide with the post at susansnaps***

(But I'm just guessing)

I have previously mentioned one of my photographing partners in crime, Susan (@snoozen) who is basically the person on whom I confer all responsibility for encouraging me in this #project365 endeavour. We bumped into each other at the ABC Studios one morning a few years ago, between segments, and the rest, they say, is history.

We marvel at each others photography, we marvel even more when our blog post subjects coincide (we're counting the number of times)... It is always a good thing to share your interests with friends.

This year, we're taking it one step further and we both entered the Ekka photo competition. Today was not so much D Day but M Day, M is for mounting...the tricky part of the process. It is not just the mounting but for me it also means decision time...I had seven printed to choose four. My clever friend Susan on the other had, chose eight to split four each across the two divisions. Smart.

Anyway, that's 12 photos demanding a backing card, framing mount and all with double-sided tape, no glue. (The Fine Arts schedule is an exemplar of pedantry and pernickety precision...but that is half the fun of the fair...) And we decided to do it together.

No probs: we started the day at the art shop down the road, selected required materials (and a few new tools because, why not...this is the world of the serious amateur) and back to Susan's we went.

We measured and cut, and placed and taped and shaved and pressed...looked and, yes, admired. Susan's pics are excellent.