Gordon's "Umbrella Lady" picture taken with the K-7
We're planning to post the third and final installment of the Pentax K-7 review by Gordon Lewis either tonight or tomorrow.
In a related matter, I want to alert you to a plot that's a-planning. There was a great deal of positive response to the picture of Gordon's that we've informally dubbed "The Umbrella Lady," from Part I of the review. So much so that Gordon has agreed to do a TOP print offer. We're trying to announce it within the next week or two—basically as soon as we can work out all the details and he can get the master prints made at his preferred custom lab.
As usual, we'll take orders only during a short window of time—five days this time—and then the prints will all be made in one run to fulfill however the orders. This enables us to sell prints for radically lower prices than would be possible in a traditional gallery setting, where the prints are sold one at a time and the prices have to be many times higher—it'll be a lot closer to $80 than $800. However, it means you have to be on the lookout, because once the window closes, that's it.
At least one of Gordon's prints—the umbrella lady—will serve double duty as a Pentax K-7 sample. With my didactic side showing, I might add that having a print of a picture that's been featured on the website is a good way of "calibrating" your sense of the difference between looking at a real print vs. a small online JPEG. I'm just sayin'.
More anon; stay tuned.
Beautiful picture. looks like a watercolor
Posted by: David 23 | Monday, 28 September 2009 at 09:35 PM
The Umbrella Lady outline, reminds
me of Grandma, in the cartoons done
by the late and much missed Giles,
in the UK.
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Monday, 28 September 2009 at 11:00 PM
Flat-out fantastic picture!
Posted by: Stephen Gillette | Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 12:12 AM
Sounds like a good idea and I'm likely to buy one. I seem to want to ask however if you (Mike) has actually seen a print? Good timing on the sharpening book by the way, I ordered it from your link with another on panoramic photography.
Posted by: Del Bomberger | Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 09:47 AM
Don't think I will be buying, but I just want to say, yes, the picture is terrific. One of those "captured, not composed" you mentioned. :-)
Posted by: erlik | Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 11:39 AM
Beautiful photo!
Say, isn't that woman Justice Sotomayor!?
Posted by: Steve Rosenbach | Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 10:13 PM
i'm in for a copy.
Posted by: david lee | Friday, 02 October 2009 at 01:25 PM
What's great about this is it also looks like she's viewing a modern art piece on the wall behind her. With the yellow descriptive card attached to the wall.
Posted by: C.R. Brown | Friday, 02 October 2009 at 03:17 PM