10/28/03: This is the beginning of the smalls project. I use "smalls" because in the finished project each image will be 3" x 3". The images at right aren't in any particular order, and not all of them will necessarily make it into the final version. They are the ones I felt had good potential.

12/11/03: Found the frames at Restoration Hardware. They are 11x11, black wood frame, white mat with a deep-cut 3 1/2" opening. It's not the original 15x15 with 3x3 opening that I'd intended. The frame has good balance, though, so it'll work nicely. I discovered it'll fit the wall better, too, without overwhelming it. RH only had seven. I'll have to go back another time for the remaining two.

12/28/03: My Christmas gift from Kent was the companion printer dock to the digital camera he gave me for my birthday :) For this project and many others it prints the perfect size print and the quality is just fabulous. I'm really impressed. Kodak got it right. RH hasn't had new frames delivered yet.

1/11/04: Printed Tulips, New Mexico Mailboxes and Broken Fence. Originally I'd intended to use only black and white. I dismantled my darkroom when we moved, and got rid of my enlarger because it was sooooo old and my most used lens had mold. The printer dock prints color. So, using current resources we're into color right now. Not a medium I'm most comfortable with but learning to enjoy it. Everything I've shot was shot with a B&W eye, even the stuff on color film for the most part.

It's been a challenge choosing images for this project. I'm using a pretty aggressive crop on some images and a lot of the work I have isn't meant to be cropped in that way - I didn't shoot it for the crop or the project at the time. Who knew ten years ago that the beautiful image of the stable wouldn't work for this? Well, it wasn't meant to. It was meant as a full frame shot and that's how it's always been presented.

I had some other criteria, too: I didn't want to use images I'd already used. None of the Passages pieces are in the Smalls. I finally, though, have an opportunity to use the New Mexico mailboxes, probably one of the nicest pieces to come out of that trip. I can't find the shots from White Sands but I think one of them might work. Gotta set aside time with the light box and look through those negs again.

2/3/04: Added a shot of the Apple Tart that Kent made. Now we're photographing our food. Sad. I may add the Wild Cake to the group because it's so colorful. Added a deep crop of the carousel horses from Ocean View. Didn't add Car3 because I've got that printed as an 11x14 B&W down in the foyer. No recycling images! I found the wonderful image of the door covered in layers of show bills (Stapled) which printed up astonishingly gorgeous. Kent's comment: "Is that yours? Wow, honey....." followed by a look of awe. Also added the image looking up into the rafters at Barnes & Noble in Baltimore from last October. It's very industrial looking. Everything except the Apple Tart and the B&N shots were done with my regular camera. These last two were done with a digital - B&N with the department digital, and the tart with mine. Come to think of it, I should list all the cameras.