Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Huh????
Had an Omie coming in yesterday that painstakingly looked at each photograph on display. I eventually approached him and asked if I can help him on which he turns to me and say "who are the photographers and why on earth do they crop the photos the way they do??? It is just silly, the best parts are not in the photograph". This is now to response of various of our photos that would for example just show a buffalo horn. I gently explained to him that it is everyone's personal opinion to like what they want and these two photographers like the photos the way they are. He argues with me for almost 20 minutes, refusing to leave the shop. I eventually had to gently escort him out of the shop as he was scaring off potential customers! Huh?????? Am thinking of putting up a sign outside "no old demented Omies allowed"
Finding my feet
It is week two in the "Slowveld". For those that do not know what I am talking about (because I didn't know either a month ago), I am talking about the Lowveld and surrounds in Mpumalanga.
My life in the fast lane in Gauteng came to a screeching halt in June this year from where T Junction Pictures Photographic Gallery was born. A lot of back and forth, and then back and forth again happened from June to October this year to get our product right, and of course get all the planning done to open our first photographic gallery at Perry's Bridge Trading Post in Hazyview by 20 November. Trying to open a gallery in Hazyview from Gauteng is a whole other story... Let's just say that the term "Slowvelder" suddenly made sense.
And here I am, in the "Slowveld", on 30 November, with our gallery being open for a week. The first week still contained a lot of stock taking, getting numbering right, getting prices right, getting electricity right, etc etc. Week two consists more of chatting to my fellow shop neighbours and getting the lowdown of the area and people. Let me put it this way, there are some strange characters lurking in the Lowveld. And somehow they all eat and sleep somewhere and manage to survive. So I keep on telling myself that my ENOURMOUS fear of failure and not being able to eat or sleap somewhere is unfounded. Now I know where I will sleep and eat if this doesn't work! He he
But why have I decided to start writing a blog you will ask? Well, life in and around the little shopping centre in which our little gallery is situated is just too interestsing not to share. And the types of people and comments of the people coming into the gallery is hilarious. The human race is a very entertaining bunch, especially when your own creativity is on display for comment! A truly humbling experience... Oh, and if ever you wondered, you spot a Gautenger a mile away. They truly do live on another planet, if compaired to the Slowvelders.
Well, here goes!
My life in the fast lane in Gauteng came to a screeching halt in June this year from where T Junction Pictures Photographic Gallery was born. A lot of back and forth, and then back and forth again happened from June to October this year to get our product right, and of course get all the planning done to open our first photographic gallery at Perry's Bridge Trading Post in Hazyview by 20 November. Trying to open a gallery in Hazyview from Gauteng is a whole other story... Let's just say that the term "Slowvelder" suddenly made sense.
And here I am, in the "Slowveld", on 30 November, with our gallery being open for a week. The first week still contained a lot of stock taking, getting numbering right, getting prices right, getting electricity right, etc etc. Week two consists more of chatting to my fellow shop neighbours and getting the lowdown of the area and people. Let me put it this way, there are some strange characters lurking in the Lowveld. And somehow they all eat and sleep somewhere and manage to survive. So I keep on telling myself that my ENOURMOUS fear of failure and not being able to eat or sleap somewhere is unfounded. Now I know where I will sleep and eat if this doesn't work! He he
But why have I decided to start writing a blog you will ask? Well, life in and around the little shopping centre in which our little gallery is situated is just too interestsing not to share. And the types of people and comments of the people coming into the gallery is hilarious. The human race is a very entertaining bunch, especially when your own creativity is on display for comment! A truly humbling experience... Oh, and if ever you wondered, you spot a Gautenger a mile away. They truly do live on another planet, if compaired to the Slowvelders.
Well, here goes!
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