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[Bitter Jeweler]

As an after thought, have you looked into photo clubs for visits and hopefully "sponsorship"?

The club in Cleveland, Ohio, is 350+ members strong...
Cleveland Photographic Society

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Thanks man - I'd love to come through Montana (I'll be there next summer for sure cause word has it that's where the next Rainbow Gathering is going to be - so, yes, I'm a hippie since I go to those). I you think there would be an audience (that would be willing to pay) for a cyanotype workshop or a camera/photo show there that you can organize I would definitely show up there. Otherwise I might have to skip it on this go around. I'm running totally broke since my 'trusty' partner left me in the middle of this adventure because he found out how much actual work is going to be involved. Now I really don't even have enough gas money to get back to CA, but I'm not stressing too much - the Great Spirit will guide and provide.

If I can get someone to watch the kiddles, we might make it to Rainbow next year - you know how agro kiddie village can be, so much to loose, you know. Not sure I'd want to camp there - plus my little guy is such a city boy, I don't think he'd enjoy it much. What has the police presence been like lately?

I don't think that there is an audience necessarily in Billings, but perhaps in Missoula. As you know, Photographers Formulary is based out of Montana, they do, or at least did, run workshops. Perhaps sponsorship or even a partnership might be feasible. If I were in that line of business, it'd be perfect. Something to think about.

Have you ever tried Resinotype? I've always wanted to.

[orlovphoto]

Thanks for the response Bitter

I have a link to my paypal on the blog, here's a link to that page:

The Photo Palace: Donate

Let me know if it doesn't work, for some reason it was giving me trouble a second ago.

I am going to do another funding campaign when I get back to CA, but I'll use indiegogo vs. kickstarter - they actually let you keep the funds you raise - if I did it through them I would have been able to keep the 8K that I did raise and could have stayed on the road for a whole year rather than having to scrounge for gas money right now to get back to CA....

[orlovphoto]

I'll have eye-candy

[Seefutlung]

I'd love to help ... but I'm afraid I'll get thrown under the bus.

G

[orlovphoto]

Thanks man - I'd love to come through Montana (I'll be there next summer for sure cause word has it that's where the next Rainbow Gathering is going to be - so, yes, I'm a hippie since I go to those). I you think there would be an audience (that would be willing to pay) for a cyanotype workshop or a camera/photo show there that you can organize I would definitely show up there. Otherwise I might have to skip it on this go around. I'm running totally broke since my 'trusty' partner left me in the middle of this adventure because he found out how much actual work is going to be involved. Now I really don't even have enough gas money to get back to CA, but I'm not stressing too much - the Great Spirit will guide and provide.

If I can get someone to watch the kiddles, we might make it to Rainbow next year - you know how agro kiddie village can be, so much to loose, you know. Not sure I'd want to camp there - plus my little guy is such a city boy, I don't think he'd enjoy it much. What has the police presence been like lately?

I don't think that there is an audience necessarily in Billings, but perhaps in Missoula. As you know, Photographers Formulary is based out of Montana, they do, or at least did, run workshops. Perhaps sponsorship or even a partnership might be feasible. If I were in that line of business, it'd be perfect. Something to think about.

Have you ever tried Resinotype? I've always wanted to.

Have not tried Resinotypes - would love to as well (that's why I 'm hoping to eventually host people on The Photo Palace Bus - they can lead workshops and I can learn some things as well)
Photographers Formulary is one of the organizations I would like to approach after my initial journey is complete - right now I'm just concentrating on making it through this one alive.

As for the Gathering - this year Kid Village was a delight and had some really good vibes. I am sure there is agro to be found everywhere, but I actually camp right next to it as a rule because it's one of the quietest places in the whole place... There were no cops on-site, but they were SUPER active on the road (including their favorite - towing cars left and right.... but as long as the tires were off the gravel you were safe). Overall the Gathering is no what it used to be 15 years ago or even 10, but, really, if good-intentioned folks stop coming all together that wonderful tradition will just die out and turn into one big festival... I know I'll be there as long as I can keep coming, I go for the 4th - the air is charged with beauty and the silence is electrifying. Plus I get some of my best images there (by now half the people know me there, so if anyone gives me a hard time I usually don't even have to defend my intentions - someone steps up and tell them to leave the 'family photographer' alone)

I hope to see you next year in Montana - I'll be the one with a ton of 8x10 black and white prints at Trade Circle - I always bring my last years pictures and give them away (this year I might step down to 5x7 to make it easier for people to carry them out and also easier on my budget. I think my now I have given away over 2000 prints through the past 7-9 years. It's also a lot of fun seeing people come back year after year and seek me out to collect prints - god bless them all.

[orlovphoto]

P.S. Nobody is being thrown under the bus - though people are welcome to hide from the rain there as some people at Maine Gathering did