My big show approaches at the gallery, and with it the usual headache of what to show, what size, how printed, mounted or framed. This is where all of you on DA prove invaluable for your comments and favorites on individual pieces, thus giving me confidence on certain shots. I assure you that it takes gall to hang one's art on a huge wall and say to the public, "Look at this!"
It is ever so much more fun to post a photo of a cheetah onto Deviant Art, submit it to the cheetah or cat or animal groups, and have cheetah fans enjoy the image and say so. Much more courage is required to print it huge and put a price tag on it. Inferred is the conviction that someone, a stranger, would care about the endangered animal at all, and go so far as to see the "portrait" or abstract black and white as "art". And so there must be a certain theme to the show and a variety within the same eye that substantiates that what the viewer sees is valid and true and good. It is hard to pull off, but worth it if you think that it is.
My secret weapon is my friends on Deviant Art. You are my critics and original audience, and nothing goes up on a wall that hasn't been run past you. So thank you for your kindnesses and viewing and comments. Thank you a lot.

Rene