For Real

Greetings, Gals and fellas!

After spending approximately 11 hours and an indeterminate amount of money, I have succeeded in printing many copies of each of six images from my first photo-illustration project. These will be obtainable on Oct. 16th and 17th at the Alternative Press Expo (also known as APE), at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.

Here's a peek at one of the images in store (another can be viewed on the first post of this blog):





This project had been sitting around in my head for about a quarter of a century before I finally got moving on it, and I am ever so delighted that it has reached completion. Now that it's all wrapped up, I've got more ideas floating around in my head just waiting to be made into real things.

Sleep tight and see you next time,

Lea Z.

So Close, Yet so Far Away...

Dearest Readers,

I am getting closer to finishing my photo-illustration project in spite of the fact that I've had to re-shoot about a trillion times. The important lesson here is that giving up just because one is discouraged doesn't make things work better; perseverance does! It's time to push as many buttons as possible till something happens...

With that, I haven't got anything from the project that I feel like posting just yet (what surprise would there be in that?).

I do, however, have a couple of images for you from last weekend's Eat Real Fest, which took place on August 27th, 28th, and 29th. The steer butchery contest fell on the 28th, also my birthday, which means I was welcomed into my twenty-fifth year by some nice-lookin' butchers and a very large amount of grass-fed meat. I photographed the same event last year and it was just as fun and exciting the second time around.

For your viewing pleasure:










Anyone interested in seeing more photographs from the Eat Real Fest can go to the Flickr group, where one can view pictures by many talented photographers who volunteered their time to document the festival. Special thanks go to my good friend Robyn J., who invited me to participate both last year and this year, and who worked her butt off helping to organize the entire gigantic event.

All right, then, it's about my bedtime. Any awkward sentences or grammatical errors can be blamed on the awesome, distracting Finnish music that I've stuck into my ears this evening.

Till we meet again,

Lea Z.