Entering a Photo Into a Gallery Show...

My wee photo next to others on a wall in a gallery!!

The first step is having the confidence to enter a piece into this show. It has judges, an entry fee, publicity and other artists. This barn comes from my iPhone 12 Mini. Will it stand up to people who do this kind of thing often? People with professional equipment?

Second step is ordering prints that still have not arrived. Then going to Michaels to take part in their $29 printing and framing deal. The lovely staff not being trained to do this and the software borking the image. Being allowed to take supplies home to do this on my own with little knowledge on how to frame a piece and not being sure if my new printer is up to the task.

Third step is to print the image, find mat board and climbing a snowbank to get into a storage unit to get my mat cutting tool. Learning how to use all of the tools and supplies (YT videos). I do this.

Then there is the static that the acrylic glass has. It finds ANY hair and random dust from 2-houses away. Ok, learning compressed air and not glass cleaner is the way to go. I almost stripping down to nothing so that Fern's hair does not replace what I just took off.

Now, where is the tool to put those metal bits into the back to hold the image in? Right, back to Michaels. Staff there are great. Petrol in car and head 48 minutes north to the gallery.

The photo of a local tobacco barn and tobacco hanging with a sample matt board that I replaced by you get the idea.

Get there after a pretty drive. Lovely people and place. They will be moving in the spring to Bernardston. Forms filled out some more. Price agreed to (it is small so $60 is fine). Membership agreed to. She hangs it on the wall as I look at the gallery. Exhale. I am humbled and hopeful at the same time.

Reception is 22 February 2026 from 2-4pm at the Fiddlehead Gallery, 105 Main Street, Northfield, MA. It will be up from 13 Feb to 29 March. Go look. Buy maybe.

To buy prints of this photo on acid free mat, please look at my shop. There is another print on the shop and lord help me this is not an intuitive process to set up this shop.

Note, Michaels also felt I deserved a second framed photo and I have another one handy for sale. It is a slightly different perspective of the same barn (more road). Let me know which version you prefer, road or no road... I would appreciate that feedback.