Whirling Dervishes featured at the HP booth at Photo Expo

Well, just when you think your walking out the door and seen everything, you then see everything!! I was getting ready to leave the Photo Expo Plus in New York City this weekend and decided to stop and talk with my friends at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops booth. A dear friend informed me that Hewlett Packard both had my image of the Whirling Dervishes featured as one of three main images on the front of the booth to the right of the front entry. Now, when she mentioned that it looked great, I thought, how nice, I am sure it's a good 8x10 in size, nothing fancy. I come around the corner and see this huge, 20x24 print in a beautiful blond wood frame. All of it's blue and white richness set off by the warm glowing face of the Sufi as he twirled. IT WAS AMAZING! I had never seen it that large, and printed that well. I have to say, HP is looking pretty good right now in comparison to Epson. It really was incredible to see the colors beautifully rendered and smooth in transitions. There was virtually NO DIGITAL NOISE reproduced in the print, even though it was in the original image. It really was incredible. I had settled on having a fair amount of "grain" in the image, and possibly not have as large of a print made in the future. Now, having seen the quality of this HUGE print, I am strongly being swayed to the HP side.

Other great news, the exhibit of the Kurdish Portraits has received rave reviews from the students and faculty at the School of International Training in Brattleboro Vermont. We have made several connections to other schools and colleges to continue the exhibit and lectures in the near future. I am hoping to get it in two places at the same time, while leap frogging from one venue to the other. The idea is to generate as much public support as possible to gain further funding to continue the project. It has been far too long since I have been there, even it has only been a little over a year!

More soon,