Well, we managed to get the exhibition up onto the walls in record time on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon - 2 hours and 56 minutes! So far the comments have been very positive and everyone who has taken the time to speak to me has been very pleasant indeed. As I have previously mentioned in this blog, the exhibition is trying to raise funds for the RSPB's Save the Albatross appeal. The RSPB kindly sent me a collection box and some appeal badges but the Gallery refused me permission to put out the collection tin.


In order to get around this restriction, I decided to produce a selection of different bookmarks with a retail price of £1.25 - at least a pound of which will be donated to the appeal. If the Borough Council do not insist on their 25% +VAT slice of the bookmarks, I will donate all of the proceeds to the appeal. As of the time of writing I have sold 24 bookmarks - time to print some more: I made 40 of them and more than half of them have gone inside two days!

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Thanks must go to the excellent job done by the Rugby Times! Another full-page spread about the exhibition in today's issue. A copy of the article can be found at www.wildsnaps.com/press/rugbytimes.pdf

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At long last! I've completed mounting all of the prints for the exhibition. I now have 48 20x16" prints that just need labelling, cataloguing and fixing to the wall. I also need to design and print the advertising posters. Still, there's still 27 whole days before I need to have everything done. I am sure I'll be ready. Well, pretty sure anyway.

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Work is progressing well on producing the images for this year's exhibition - Antarctica. I have now completed approximately half of the required work. This time around I am working with Permajet's excellent Fibre-based gloss paper, which is wonderful paper to print on: it really does give the feeling of a traditional print. All of the photographs have been printed using an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 which has been modified to use Permajet's Eco-flow system. This means that instead of using loads of ink cartridges, the printer has been modified to use larger bottles of ink, which is fed to the print-head via direct injectors.

I was apprehensive of fitting this to my shiny new printer, but it is just so much more cost effective. Previously I had used the Lyson Continual Ink System with my old Canon S9000 printer and found it to be messy and problematic at times. So far, with six months of use, the Permajet system has yet to cause me any problems at all.

For more information about both the Ink-flow system and the Fibre-based gloss paper, please take a look at Permajet's website.

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