Upcoming: Kate Kirkwood Print Sale

We are working behind the scenes to get ready for our sale of Kate Kirkwood's unique, wonderful, and indeed well-nigh magical photographs of the English Lake District. After much discussion we have settled on prices for the prints which should make the work accessible to most buyers. And after a great deal of thought (really, it's been tremendously difficult, and I've been torturing myself), we've finally agreed on which four pictures to offer in the sale.

Lots of animated discussion lately. All three of us (Ctein is making the prints) are excited about this.

Here's Kate's website. Three of the prints in our sale are from the "Light, landscape, lives" section, and the fourth has never been published or seen before—and it's stunning, a rare beauty of a picture. It has no dark edge—it's whimsical, delightful, like something from a fairy tale. Happy, even. People are going to be blown away, I promise you—it's so great it might well get some attention beyond the miniverse of photographic websites.

As you might know—or might not—our sales are different. We have a five-day period during which people can pre-order prints. Then we close the order window, and only then get started making and shipping the prints. Because all the prints are pre-sold, we can offer them for a much lower price than gallery prices, and yet, still, because we sell in volume, everyone involved can make some money. And it's a way for you, as a buyer, to get a print for 1/2 or 1/4 or even 1/8 of what a bricks 'n' mortar gallery would have to charge in the old one-every-so-often shopkeeper model. It all adds up, as I'm fond of saying, to a win-win-win.

Well, as long as you don't miss the sale window. So maybe win-win-win-lose?

Ctein will be making the prints from Kate's guide prints, with her collaboration. That's where we are now—they're getting started on that process. All the prints will be on 17x22" paper, with margins.

As for the "when?" question, I really don't have an answer quite yet. But I'll try to give you plenty of notice.

Mike

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[edo]

Hmm ... tough call on which might be the three from the Light, landscape, lives section.

I am particularly taken with #22, which I originally read as death or sickness, but might be just a lamb at rest (under a mom's watchful eye). That lack of certainty keeps me involved. #33 is nice, and perhaps seen here in an earlier post, but if I was a betting man, I'd lay money on # 42 which should be absolutely stunning in print.

Is this a betting site ?

[jim woodard]

So glad you "discovered" Kate! And worked out this print sale! Now I can only hope the prints offered will be from my wish list!

[Eolake]

Outstanding mastery of light and darkness. Never seen the like.

Love the first one at night with snowflakes and sheep's eyes in the flashlight. It looks like a cartoon images. Funny and beautiful.

[Dave Stewart]

Suspect there may be several of us would like to hear some of the journey taken to achieve the finished prints. So that's one please can we, from me. I do want to take up printing one day, but too many other challenges at the moment.

[Participant]

Whenever the word "magical" is used to describe something, disappointment nearly always follows... but not in this case. Deeply dream-like images that immediately stirred my imagination. Wonderful photographer, thank you for introducing me to her work.

[ElArteDePerder]

I'm really, really looking forward to this sale!!!. I knew the photographer and her work is very poetic and inspiring. I hope the prince is within my reach. I hope one of those offered is 40, 56, or 63 ... fingers crossed

[ctein]

Dear Folks,

OK....

I keep waiting for someone to shout out, "Bingo!"

pax / Ctein

[ctein]

Dear Dave,

Ummm, probably not. And not as useful as you'd imagine.

If you want to get a general sense of what kinds of tools and approaches I use, I've written quite a few columns that talk about that. Google "Ctein custom" and "Ctein printing" or click on the Ctein link on the right and scroll back through previous columns.

pax /Ctein

[Minnow]

Amazing photographs. Astonishing that there is still something new to say about the Lake District. I would hardly dare raise a camera there for fear of the great weight of cliche dangling above my head.

[BrianW]

There must and shall be chickens!