Peace on the Water
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325654)
Rockingham, Australia
May 29, 2016 8:11pm CST
Last night we went to the Western Australian winery where Vince's photos are displayed to taste the new season's wines. The winery has created a 'club'. To join you need to buy 3 dozen bottles of their wine over the year. Their wine is dearer than we'd normally pay but they are friends and over a year the cost evens out as the wine is very nice and suitable to take with us whenever we need to take a wine if we're going out. So out of loyalty really, we joined.
We were treated to a tasting of all their new wines plus current ones so we could compare. We thought we would have nibbles but instead when the tasting was finished we sat down to borscht (beetroot soup), meatballs with mashed potato and finally a lovely poppyseed cupcake affair. All in all a very pleasant evening.
And the bonus was that Vince has sold two of his photos. One was of fisherpeople silhouetted against a sunset which I think I've put up here before. The one shown also sold and is, I think, my favourite one ever and was taken at Lake Phewa in Nepal. Of his Nepalese photos, Vince prefers one of the painted canoes which I think I've already put up on MyLot but I really think this one is nicer. If I've put it before, I apologise - but it's lovely enough to stand two 'showings', isn't it? And I told him it would sell! So I'm taking all the credit.
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 May 16
It certainly has an air of tranquility about it, doesn't it?
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 May 16
@JudyEv me too. did he alter the photo at all, or was this just the way it looked? Was it foggy?
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Jun 16
@Jessicalynnt It was foggy and he tried to line it all up nicely. Occasionally he touches them up a bit - maybe increasing the contrast or something. And sometimes he makes them black and white which can look good. I don't like them altered too much really but to each his own. The programs now are so powerful and adaptable you can do almost anything. In a photo of an old shed you can glimpse just a bit of scaffolding through a window so he was able to black that out. I don't mind that sort of stuff but sometimes photos can end up looking more like paintings and I'm not so keen on that. I'll be away now for a week or so, so I'll catch up next time. Take care. :)
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 May 16
I agree completely. I only have to look at it and I feel more serene.
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
30 May 16
Very nice photo. I can see why it sold.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
31 May 16
If you put this up before, I didn't get to see it, so I am glad you did, again, this is very beautiful, I love the pictures your husband paints.
I actually thought you went on a boat ride, because my neighbor invited us last night to take a ride on his boat, but I declined, wasn't feeling well. So when I do get a chance to take a boat ride, I am going to take some pictures, though they won't come close to this lovely piece.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
31 May 16
@JudyEv Oh, that is cool, we only get the ugly plain ones when we rent a canoe.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
30 May 16
'tis a beautiful photo 'n i don't recall ya usin' 't prior?? but'cha know my memory aint what't used to be, lol.
i'm glad they threw y'all a feed 'fterwards, but sounds delightful either way. 'tis nice to be able to be a part'f a local business. there's no wineries 'round these parts, but further'p north there's quite a few...'n micro breweries.
congrats to mr. vince! no doubt some more'll get sold :)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
31 May 16
@JudyEv 
sounds like how't used to be 'round here :)
sounds like how't used to be 'round here :)1 person likes this
@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Jun 16
@crazyhorseladycx 
I'm away now for a week or so. Take care.
I'm away now for a week or so. Take care.1 person likes this
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
25 Aug 16
@JudyEv Yes, I put them in frames, frameless glasspanes in fact. I asked in a photoshop if I could borrow frames if I mentioned their name. They agreed.
I exhibited my photos of the Italian island of Sardinia (where my husband is from) in the Italian Cultural Centre of Stuttgart when a man read from his German translation of a novel set in Sardinia.
The ones showing the landscape of the part of Germany where I live where shown in several large windows of a shop, a bank, a communal building, an educational centre of the church, a hotel lobby. I only sold one large photo but several calenders (the kind which you can use forever) and many postcards. The postcard business was very lucrative over the years. I think I did it for 10 years. I sold landscape postcards privately and also at a stationer's. I stopped my 'business' some years ago because I became a bit bored, not because it wasn't successful.
I asked a colleague to look at one of my exhibitions. He usually writes critiques of classical music events. But he also wrote a critique for me which was printed in the local newspaper.
You can wait until you're discovered or inform the world yourself that you're here!
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Aug 16
@MALUSE That must have been an interesting and quite exciting time for you. Congratulations on doing so well. As regards selling photos, it is hard to know what will sell and what won't. They all cost the same to blow up. I can imagine glasspanes would have looked very nice.
@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Aug 16
That's great. Where did you exhibit yours? Vince was going to put some up in a cafe but they have now closed. There are several small shops in town that will probably take some. Did you frame them before exhibiting? We mounted ours on board to save the expense of frames but now we're making our own we put some in frames next time.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
Absolutely stunning. I think I might have bought it myself if I was there. So peaceful.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48908)
• United States
7 Jun 16
How exciting that he sold his paintings.
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jun 16
Yes, he has sold at least two of his photos. We might swap some around this week.
@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jun 16
It's a photo - not that it matters. Thanks for reading. :)
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
30 May 16
What a beautiful photo .... he's such a talented man... does he paint pictures from his photos? Are they water colour or oil based..? 
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@JudyEv (325654)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 May 16
He has lined up all the elements nicely, hasn't he?
