Picture Rails
The left picture was printed five years ago by Hand & Eye letterpress in wood and metal type in a run of 80 prints. It is a rather odd size, and necessitated a custom mat. This is the first we have gotten to hang it up, because it sat rolled up in tissue paper in its mailing tube for years while I waited to get it professionally matted. Eventually, we decided that I should simply cut the mat myself and we would make do with this Ikea frame for the time being. Mykala’s efforts got this to finally see the light of day, for which I am very thankful. It is not perfect, but it turned out nicely for a first crack, and I’ll take it for now. I tend to just stand in front of the wall and stare at it, because I like the way it turned out.
To the right of that is a black and white print of spring flowers from the Mississippi River road near St. Thomas, which I took while we were in college. To the right of that is dew on my parent’s lawn on a summer morning. Below that is a lovely print from Emily Fulton-Fischer, then a reworking/reprint of a violin picture I took; below that is a picture of flowers down near Colby Lake, which I took when I was renting a professional lens for Matt and Shayla’s wedding.
Professional lenses take noticeably nicer pictures than consumer-grade ones. I like stuff where you get what you pay for.
So the picture rails themselves were Mykala’s idea, and there are actually three separate rails, which we arranged to give a nice interplay between horizontal and vertical. We’ve got nine vertical feet to fill, and even if I had diagrammed this out on a Photoshop document scaled for 4 pixels per inch (as I’ve tended to do with some of our recent projects), I don’t think it would’ve turned out as nicely. Chalk one up to my wife’s skill of eyeing things up.
Lens at 33mm, ISO 50, ƒ/2.4, 1/40s
Snapped May 1, 2014 at 10:20am