Blog - Mel Curtis

And it Was a Craft, Wasn’t it?

30 years, wow. I am only 7 years ahead of you. I recall first meeting you at my old studio. That was a good period. The 90s were good to me. It was fun working with you too. I miss that old studio sometimes. Lots of good people like you passed through there. Had lots of good fun. I recall…

September 8, 2021Celebrations, Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized

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I Hated Being in Front of the Camera

In June I made a list of summer projects. While I think technically I have 3 weeks to go before summer’s end, I always think of Labor Day as the end of summer. Or maybe that just when they closed the pool in Grandview. None of my projects are complete, about 5 or 6 of them, but all are in…

September 3, 2021Celebrations, Musings, Odds and Ends, Ohio

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The Last Silver Print

This is one of the last silver prints I ever made in 2006. I made it in a friend’s darkroom as I had already shut my down. My friend had a much better darkroom than I did, but I recall not having any fun printing that day. Probably because I was reprinting and not creating something new. I was making…

August 28, 2021architecture, France, Gardens, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends

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Not in My Bathroom

So the judging is live via Zoom and the contestants are present to see the judge’s picks and hear his comment? Woo, kinda brutal to me. I have been involved in a gazillion competitions, as a participant, a worker bee and a judge and the judging is usually carried on in privacy. Only one show did I ever judge that had…

August 26, 2021Musings, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized

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Ten Years After

This image popped up on Facebook this morning. Share your old memories they say. This was 2010 class in Rome. I was to go one last time in 2011, then called it quits. Hard to believe it has been ten years already. For maybe three or four years after that last class I would have a yearning to be in…

August 25, 2021architecture, Celebrations, Musings, Roma, Travels

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Options Change Ahead

I know about missed photo opportunities. I ‘ve had a few. Sometimes like you, I say I’ll be back. Other times I am just in a hurry and don’t feel like stopping. Once in England I was traveling in the north in Yorkshire. I had hired a car and driver for the day to show me and my assistant a…

August 20, 2021architecture, England, London, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels, Uncategorized

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Chance Meetings and Enduring Friendship

I am still pondering the story about Dona and how to best present it. It is an interesting story about chance meetings and enduring friendship. But it also reminds me how dependent my life’s work has been about chance meetings and following the end of my nose. Very little of the work I have done in my life is the…

August 18, 2021France, Landscapes, Musings, Odds and Ends, Travels, Uncategorized

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At 68

August 2021, the pandemic rages on.

August 16, 2021Celebrations, Seattle, Selfies, Uncategorized

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Just Make Good Pictures

Not sure I told you, but I entered a local art’s festival and won top prize in the photo category. Beat out all the lovely pics of autumn trees and Mt Rainier. I have since had a nice email dialog going on with the guy who judged the show. He lives up in Bellingham and is very old school. Shoots…

August 13, 2021architecture, Musings, Seattle, Uncategorized

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All Mine

Ugh… deF’ingPressing! No wonder Van Gogh cut off his ear before shooting himself. And he probably had to make his own frames from scratch! º_¿ I can’t really explain the need to make “art” and then the desire to share it in an unprofitable exhibition. But obviously there are many of us who do it. I can safely save that…

August 2, 2021Musings, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized