To give a little more info it was a local "arts" council members show
quite possible the photographer in question is strickly amature who is guessing
how much the print is "worth".

The piece was in the main gallery adjacent to my large piece
they are of about the same size around 24 x 30 mine was framed
theirs was flush mounted with dinged edges on foamboard, mine was
archival off white matted and under glass & BW. I priced mine at
a conservative $475 considering how much the print cost me to produce
framed etc. I think what bothers me most is it is so not worth 3K
I could see a contacted 24x30 Silver print depending on the subject,
maybe even a ciba from 35mm or any format but not a strick "C"
print comming from a no name photographer, it has not sold as of yet.
Maybe I should go back and change my price to 10K ;-)

Then again there where quite a few paintings of the same caliber,
of questionable nature for several hundreds or thousands of dollars....
.of which a few really qualified for the price, by that I mean they exhibited a refinement
of skill. John, I paint and can draw just about anything I only wonder
where these people come from and who actually would spend that kind of
money for someone of my renown much less people who "I" have never heard and I know
quite a few, good photographers.

It is interesting that the jurior chose two wood carvings as the
1st and second place winners. Grand total out of 175 to 200 pieces
there were about 15 photographs most of which were not for sale.

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