Hello!

First: A quick apology to anyone who has been checking in regularly, only to find that updates to the Hound Blog have been a bit less regular recently. We are still here and goin’ strong! Lots of exciting things have been brewing here at the studio, keeping us pretty busy. More on that soon!

Second: Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our Hearts and Hounds celebration last month. Of course, a great time was had by all, humans and hounds alike. We will be posting photos from the event in the near future.

Third: So many wonderful items were donated to the Hearts and Hounds fundraiser auction- we can’t stress HOW MUCH we appreciate everyone’s generosity.

One item that caught our attention in particular was an adorable screen print poster from Chicago Printmaker and Artist, Diana Sudyka:

You may recognize Diana’s work from various gig posters around town, but she also has great prints of animals, historical figures and other ephemera available for sale on her website and at her Etsy shop. We also like her blog, The Tiny Aviary.

It turns out, Diana is also a fan of greyhounds and has teamed up with a few other artists, Tim Gough, Largemammal Design, and Mile 44 in an effort to help the nonprofit group, Greyhound Angels Adoption celebrate 1000 greyhound adoptions! The 4 artists are offering limited edition prints for sale to benefit GAA. The prints can be purchased individually or in a set of four. What a great chance to own some awesome artwork while simultaneously helping the greyhounds! We love it. Check out the Large Mammal Print website for more info.

For more info and to buy tickets online, check out the Greyhounds Only website.

Hope to see you there.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

A reminder for the photographers out there: The Review Santa Fe Call For Entries Deadline is right around the corner, on January 23rd.

According to the official website,

“Review Santa Fe is a juried portfolio review event scheduled for June 4-6, 2009. It is a two-day conference for photographers who have created a significant project or series and are seeking wider recognition. Up to 100 photographers meet with esteemed curators, editors, art directors, publishers, gallery and agency reps, and alternative market professionals.”

As someone who has attended for the past two years and enjoyed the programs sponsored by Review Santa Fe, Barbara would encourage anyone with a mature photographic project to enter. While there, Barbara received valuable input on GREYHOUNDS and made many good acquaintances that she hopes to continue involvement with in the future.

Barbara Karant with reviewer Kevin Miller of the Southeast Muesum in Florida ©Matt Suhre 2008

Portfolio Viewing at Zane Bennett © Sara Stathas 2008

Check it out at www.visitcenter.org

Hello!

We hope everyone had a good and restful holiday and that you are all enjoying 2009 so far. We’re looking forward to a great year.

Recently, a few more photographs of Barbara’s talk at Apple last month turned up and so we are happy to share a few of them here. The rest are at our flickr site.

The first image is courtesy of our friend Jon Spegal, and the others are © David Seide, of the ASMP.

Thanks again to everyone who packed the house at Apple, to those of you who shared your photographs, and especially to the ASMP. for organizing this event. We are indebted to you all!

Anthony Tortoriello has done it again!

I received two more great photos from Barbara’s talk at the Apple Store from Anthony this morning:

These images © Anthony Tortoriello.

Check out our flickr site for more greyhounds photos and if you have any photos you’d like to share from other Greyhounds the Book events, send them our way! We’ll happily post them to the blog.

Our friend Anthony Tortoriello over at Atort Photography was nice enough to share a few of his photos from Barbara’s talk at the Apple Store last week:

All images © Anthony Tortoriello.