I’ve received quite a lot of interest for my photo, The 97 Switchbacks at Night. I’m pleased to finally announce that I will take orders for prints of this photo. For the past several months, I’ve been working like crazy at my day job. That project has finally come to an end, and as a result I finally have time to return to my photography, which is my #1 passion when I’m not working. That passion demands the utmost quality in my prints. I’ve therefore selected Fujiflex Crystal Archive prints for this photo. It’s just an amazing printing technology that reminds me of Cibachrome / Ilfochrome, which I used to print myself when I had access to a darkroom. A LightJet imager “prints” onto photographic paper with lasers and then the paper is developed through photochemical processes. It looks wonderful with this image, and you can see one of these prints in the Eastern Sierra Interagency Visitor Center as noted in the previous posting. Each print will be personally inspected and signed. In addition, I’m including mounting in the price. The image will be float mounted onto acrylic or aluminum with a border, ready for a matte and frame of your choice. Contact me directly if you wish to have it border-less or laminated and we can work out on a case by case basis. Fujiflex printing and the professional mounting are not cheap, but they are stunning prints.

FujiFlex Prints, mounted:

8x10 $ 250
16x20 $ 450
24x30 $ 600
40x50 $1200

Posters and Post Cards

This is not the only way I am going to offer this image, however. I’m currently working with a few people to produce some posters and post cards with The 97 Switchbacks at Night on them, which I hope will be sold in the area as well as direct from me online. I’m waiting currently on some quotes before that can proceed. Naturally, the pricing on these reproduction posters and postcards will be what you might expect based on the price of other posters for sale. The total poster size will be 18×24 inches. Post cards will be 4×6.

I’m also busy preparing a selection of prints for my first gallery exhibition. Details for that are coming soon. It will be in my home town of Fort Wayne, Indiana this fall and I will be there.

Ordering

For print ordering, Paypal seems to be the easiest thing for me at the moment, though I will work on more and perhaps better ways to accept payment.
Please contact me at prints “@” kurtlawson.com and I will send you a Paypal invoice based on what you want, and then I can make prints and get them to you as soon as possible.

From the salt flats at Badwater in Death Valley, Merry Christmas!

Starting in January I will be accepting orders for custom prints of my photos, including the 97 Switchbacks At Night. Stay tuned for details.

There have not been many updates here lately as I have been busy with work and the holidays and not taking trips shooting. However, I have managed to go through and upload my 102 favorite Death Valley pictures to my Flickr stream. You can check them out starting with the first pic here:

Some of my favorites:

These pictures are from four separate trips to Death Valley. Three trips in 2008 and my sole trek there in 2010. Sadly I did not make it there at all in 2009. Enjoy.

I paid a quick visit to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society yesterday. Their locomotive, Nickel Plate 765, traveled by my house when I was growing up and I always like to see it when I can. On this day they were working on the frames that support the wheels of the locomotive’s tender. I walked away with two shots that I really liked of the work being done, although the depth of field could have been bigger. It’s always challenging to shoot pictures in their shop since it is very dark. You can see some of my other shots of 765 and other trains by clicking here.

These two gentleman were grinding bits of steel that they had welded onto the trailer trucks. The steel they were adding was of greater strength than the original steel in the trucks. This will hopefully be more resistant to wear and tear. In these pictures they are grinding down the welded on pieces.