Bethesda Fine Arts Festival - Observations

Maybe it's me, but the festival seemed much smaller this year. My sister and I went on Sunday, and stopped by or scanned all of the booths. This year, there were far fewer photography booths than in previous years. Some observations:

1) No one had macro photography - at least not of flowers. This is interesting, because this is my strength. I wonder if it's because the audience (a typical consumer) isn't interested in that kind of work? Anyway, this raised a lot of questions for me, so I'm going to blog about this later in the week.

2) The best booth had pictures that looked a great deal like these:







My sister made the same observation. What was different was where these types of pictures were taken - central Europe. I've never been there. I'm guessing it would be an amazing experience for me. Also, though, I felt like I was potentially on the right track with my cathedral shots, and that's important, too.

3) The cityscapes done by this artist were huge crowd pleasers. He printed some on watercolor paper. I've thought about that for my macro work, but that might look pretty with something like this:



Or this:



I don't know where this leaves me exactly, but I do have some pending projects:

1) Brookside - butterfly reshoot (the more, the merrier)

2) The domed cathedral on Mass Ave (DC) - a must, if I can find the time

3) Visit more art shows - this is the easiest to accomplish, because there is one in June that I want to attend. It's the NCCF one. I want to see which photographers' artwork was accepted, and to see what I can learn. I'm looking forward to it!

Tomorrow - macro photography musings.