Owens Valley / Sad Story

I was immediately impressed by my Owens Valley sunrise photo:

1) It comes with a good story (see last year’s entry), and

2) I somehow retained enough presence of mind to take enough vertical overlapping shots—remembering just enough digital/photo techniques—so that I could come up with the above panorama using Photoshop.

So the fact that the panoramic shot is made up of three separate photos means that it can be printed big. I made one print on 13x19 paper using my HP 8750, but I wanted something even bigger. So I sent a file to West Coast Imaging and got back a very nice 15x27 inch print.

Alas, from there things have gone downhill. My dry mount tissue is 16x20: not long enough. So I took it in to the local frame shop to be mounted and somehow miscommunicated what I wanted, so that a series of cobbled-together measures had to be taken to get the outer dimensions to fit my frame size.

And the latest: the frame that I ordered from Light Impressions (almost two months ago) now turns out to be too narrow for the mat/photo/backing combo.

What to do? I could pay to have it framed. I could order a wider, more expensive frame. Or, given the fact that the product as it stands just isn’t quite right, I could just chalk the whole thing up to experience and start over.

As I was complaining about all this over the phone to Joe Grant, I suddenly had the thought: "Hey, this could be a blog entry!"

Photos: Sunrise—Owens Valley, 2008; Owens Valley Print—Marin County, 2009