FALL BECOMES US

The official date for the beginning of Fall this year may be September 22, but I can tell you that it's already begun - official or not. How do I know without consulting Fritz Coleman, Johnny Mountain, or Dallas Raines - basically it's a coolness in the night air that prevents me from wearing shorts in the evening anymore and the need to actually take a jacket out with me too. Drat, summer is gone and I spent the last two weeks of it as a sickie stuck at home with bed rest. Well in honor of Fall, here's a montage I made in 2006. Funny enough, these golden colors of Fall were captured in Los Angeles in December - the actual time our leaves were turning. The air may be cold in September, but apparently it takes awhile for our trees to catch on.

Fall Foliage montage by Lydia Marcus
Photographed December, 2008 in Encino, CA.

Camera: Leica Mini Zoom
Film: Kodak Ultra Color 400

Lydia's Photos Make It Into Another Gallery Show!

I'm soooo excited...I just found out that my photos made it into another gallery show! This month has been tremendously exciting!!!!!! I submitted three images to the NIGHT OF THE WITCHES group show at SHOTGUN SPACE. Each photographer was allowed to send in three images with a Halloween or Autumn theme. From all the submissions, 100 images were chosen to be printed and put into monster grids to be plastered on the walls of Shotgun Space for the October 31 exhibition. The prints will be sold in unlimited Ultrachrome editions of either 8 x 10 inches (for $25) or 13 x 19 inches (for $50). My fellow
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW group galley show cohorts Aline Smithson and Liz Kuball also made it into the show!

These are the images I submitted - I don't know if just one or possibly all made it into the show.

"Marcus Halloween" (Polaroid Spectra montage of my Mom, Dad, Me and Roxy taken approximately 5 or 6 years ago on Halloween).

"Carrie Redux" (Nikon D50 digital image shot last year at a Halloween party)

"Fall Daze" (montage of fall leaves shot with a Leica Mini Zoom on Kodak Ultra Color 400 film)


Here's info about the party and gallery show. Hope you can make it there. I was planning to go to the traditional WEHO Halloween Carnival but there's no way I'm doing that now that I got into the show! :-)

What: Night of the Witches Group Show and Halloween Party
Who: You! And your friends!
When: Halloween, 8 to 11 p.m.
Where: Shotgun Space, 2121 San Fernando Rd., Suite 11, Los Angeles
Why: To show great art, put on a great party, and provide archival-quality prints at an affordable price to the L.A. community.