my first public photo display

On 29 July 2012 by matthew With 16 Comments - photography

Thanks to my good friend Sarah Mat­tingly, I cur­rently have a num­ber of pho­tos on dis­play at The Java Shack in Arling­ton, Vir­ginia. I am not sure how long the work will be dis­played, but if you’re in the area, please stop by to check them out, and enjoy some cof­fee and light fare while you’re there.

Here are some images of my work hang­ing on the walls of Java Shack.

The Java Shack — Get­ting There


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16 Comments

  1. Reply
    carla hall 29 July 2012

    I’m so proud of you and your work. You have an incred­i­ble eye, and your work deserves to be shared and seen my oth­ers. Thanks for mak­ing your pri­vate pas­sion public.

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      matthew 29 July 2012

      Awww. Of course, it helps to have some­one in my life that fully sup­ports and believes in my tal­ent. Thank you!! LLL

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    Rod Mance 30 July 2012

    Con­grats!

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    ChatterBox Christie 30 July 2012

    Amaz­ing! Congratulations!

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    Nancy Sizer 30 July 2012

    Matthew, this is great! Such a big step to get your first work out in pub­lic. It looks gor­geous, and I hope you have them marked for sale so peo­ple can begin col­lect­ing :-)

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      matthew 30 July 2012

      Thanks Nancy! I didn’t tag the images, but I will prob­a­bly get back over to the shop to mark them with names and price them. Clearly, need to get my act together. I’ll learn as I do more showings.

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    Victoria Pickering 30 July 2012

    Con­grat­u­la­tions! — it looks won­der­ful, both as indi­vid­ual images and as a collection.

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      matthew 30 July 2012

      Thanks Vic­to­ria! One of the images is from the pho­towalk we did on the Mall at dusk.

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    Sarah 3 August 2012

    Con­grat­u­la­tions Matthew. They look fan­tas­tic. I just know this is the first of many great show­ings for you!!!

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      matthew 4 August 2012

      Thanks Sarah. I really appre­ci­ate all the sup­port and encour­age­ment. You really sparked a lot of thought about my focus when we were hang­ing the images.

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    Dwight Mcneill 9 August 2012

    Hi Matthew — I was in the neigh­bor­hood yes­ter­day, doing bat­tle with the County, so I dropped by Java Shack yes­ter­day and saw THE WORK! And very nice work it is too! Loved the B&W flow­ers and cof­fee ser­vice pieces on the left wall espe­cially. But do me a favor and next time (and there’ll be many of them), make BIGGER PHOTOS and smaller frames! Your work is good enough and strong enough. The pho­tos got a lit­tle lost in the chaos that is The Shack and your pho­tos are too good to be over­looked. Who says “size doesn’t matter”?

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      matthew 9 August 2012

      Thanks Dwight! I appre­ci­ate the feed­back about the image-to-frame ratio. I, admit­tedly, was rush­ing to get work framed for this space, and didn’t put much thought into the ratios. I knew the space was small, so I didn’t think larger prints would work. Given your com­ment, and look­ing at the images, I could have just gone with larger prints and sim­ple, nar­row frames. I’m not even touch­ing the size mat­ters thing. :-)

      Cheers!

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    Chamene 11 August 2012

    Matthew, I am so happy for you!! I’m eager to finally see up close the fruits of your tal­ent and labor. Also, the oppor­tu­nity to pur­chase a “Matthew Lyons” work of art is like a scoop of home­made ice cream on an already deli­cious dessert — extra great. Congratulations!!

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      matthew 13 August 2012

      :-) Thank you, Chamene!

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