There's nothing wrong with a little bit of self promotion right? So from time to time I'll be featuring some of my photography work including information about purchasing prints if you're so inclined.

Barn in Sun's Glare
11x14 print $60
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Earlier this week I spent a little time touring Flame Run Hotshop & Gallery on East Market. It's a blown glass studio and gallery and I had my mind blown a little bit watching owners Brook and Susie White do their work. I've always had a bit of a thing for blown glass, B and I have a full small pieces, and in fact I just gave my mom a blown glass piece for her birthday. This was the first time though that I've seen the glass art creation process in action and it was awesome.

Flame Run offers visits to the studio, classes and during the holidays the big "make your own" ornament blow. The Flame Run gallery offers new shows regularly and normally has an opening to coincide with the gallery hop. I don't have all the details yet on the August show opening but I'll share them as soon as I get them.

Some images from my visit to Flame Run:

You know that when I'm not toiling away on Consuming Louisville in my cave I'm a photographer right?

When I showed my partner a print of this photograph she said "I love this because it reminds me of how I feel driving downtown early in the morning when the streets aren't crowded yet. It's like the day and the city are full of possibility." We'll ignore that this scene was at sunset instead of sunrise but other than that we'll go with her sentiment. Louisville is a city full of possibility so I called this image Possibility City. 

Many of the One Thing I Love About Louisville essays we've seen thus far have echoed that sentiment and many of the ones I've yet to publish do as well. People here believe anything is possible, that in this great city anything can be accomplished. So it pains me that the so called Possibility City campaign, put together by, I think Greater Louisville Inc., doesn't really tell any stories about how great Louisville is or how it really is a city full of possibilities. It's possible I'm too critical of the campaign but I want everyone to know how great Louisville is and how it's a unique and creative place. I just don't think the Possibilty City website conveys that information at all.

So consider this piece a tiny little effort to influence the conversation. Perhaps if someone Googles "Possibilty City" they'll stumble here as well as possibilitycity.com. When they get here they'll see an image that shows our beautiful downtown and lots of information about the great city of Louisville.

I'd love to hear if you agree that Louisville is a city of possibilities and if so why. I'd also love to hear what you think of the "official" possibility city campaign.

Prints of the image Possibilty City are available for purchase. Please contact me for more information.