My first photography exhibition!

[rogerg (Roger)]

G'day all,

Very happy that this Saturday my first ever photography exhibition kicks off

It's taken a lot of work over the last 2 months to put it together (and that's and under exaggeration!) but I think it's coming together well. I had no idea how much work (and money) it would take ot put a photography exhibition together. Quite an experience. Especially doing media interviews for the newspapers, yikes!

It's of astrophotography, but includes some element of landscape photography, with twilight scenes, silhouettes, etc. It has two parts, an area of large (1m, 1.2m, etc) canvas prints and large framed prints, plus an area of about 6 square metres of 200 NGC photographs

If you're in WA, I think it'd be worth checking it out

I remember going to see the exhibition of the David Malin awards a couple of years back and loved it. Very inspiring. Unfortunately I missed Ray Palmer's exhibition earlier this year, the only other exhibition I know of astrophotography in WA. It's not often astrophotography exhibitions come around. I'm hoping mine will be of just as much interest to us keen astronomers and to non-astronomers alike If you're a better photographer than I you can go to make yourself feel good, if you're photographs are not as good as mine, you can go to be inspired

It's at the Gravity Discovery Centre's "Cosmos Gallery" from 5th June - 31st July Being inside the GDC entry fees apply. Full Details here.

I'm going to be there on Sunday 6th June from about 11ish-1ish if you want to drop by and say hi

Roger.

[TrevorW]

Nicely done Roger

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

You're going to wow a lot of people I reckon.
Good luck!!

[astroron (Ron)]

Good luck Roger with the exhibition, I am sorry I did not get a chance to see your work when we met last year, maybe next time in a couple of years.
Cheers

[Ric]

Congratulations Roger

I hope it's a great success.

Cheers

[h0ughy (David)]

hope everything works out for the exhibition - looks to be good one

[rogerg (Roger)]

Thanks everyone for your support

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

I will be there in spirit good luck

[leinad (Dan)]

Fantastic Roger! Congratulations, a proud moment.

I will have to schedule a trip up there next weekend to have a look.

Do you know when/where they are publishing in the newspapers. I guess I'll have to check out this weekends Sat/Sun paper

[iceman (Mike)]

Congrats, Roger.

You're a very talented photographer and I wish you all the best!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

I will be there in spirit good luck

Thanks

Originally Posted by leinad

Fantastic Roger! Congratulations, a proud moment.

I will have to schedule a trip up there next weekend to have a look.

Do you know when/where they are publishing in the newspapers. I guess I'll have to check out this weekends Sat/Sun paper

- I was in the "Hills Gazette" (front page!) 2 weeks ago.
- Apparently I was in the "Advocate" which covers Gingin, Bindoon, City of Swan, but I haven't seen this one.
- I will be in The West, but I'm not sure when, they interviewed me yesterday so presumably today, tomorrow or Saturday, but they didnt' say.
- I have heard unconfirmed rumors I was in a Joondalup community newspaper, but not sure about that one.

It was the Hills Gazette one I liked most because they were friendly to talk to and sent out a photographer to actually have a nice shot for the article. The others have just asked for examples from the exhibition.

The Sunday Times was a laugh .. got a call from an impatient young reporter who's primary questions before she ran to some kind of news meeting were "So what's my headline going to be??" and "So what's so special about it??" .. afterwards I felt like saying "it's a photography exhibition not a double murder!!". So I don't expect it to turn up in the Sunday Times

Originally Posted by iceman

Congrats, Roger.

You're a very talented photographer and I wish you all the best!

Thanks Mike

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Looks like a, fantastic exibition Roger post some photos if you can well done

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by alan meehan

Looks like a, fantastic exibition Roger post some photos if you can well done

Thanks Alan I'll post some photo's of it later, but perhaps after it's over so west ausie's don't google and find it and then go "ok, no point me going"

[rogerg (Roger)]

Well, I put up all the prints today. Took my wife and I from 10am until 4:30pm!!! what a job! exhausted now.

Looks great though, I'm very happy how it's turned out Hopefully others will like it too

[iceman (Mike)]

Would love to see some photographs of the exhibition room with photos etc!

[DavidU (Dave)]

I 2nd that!

Originally Posted by iceman

Would love to see some photographs of the exhibition room with photos etc!

[M54 (Molly)]

Good luck and best wishes for your exhibition today Roger.

[WadeH (Wade)]

Hi there Roger,

Congratulations on you exhibition!! Hopefully Margaret and myself will be coming up there tomorrow to see some of your fantastic pics for real. They look great here at IIS so should be awsome on the big scale.

See you then.

[Jen]

Good on ya Roger i have always admired your work
Your an inspiration to us all, keep up the great work cheers buddy

[rogerg (Roger)]

Had a few people from IIS, ASWA, and family and friends come to say hi today, was good chatting to people

I've got some pics but they don't really do it justice .. so working on improving them before posting

Thanks all