Pressly Hall Note Cards Feed
This photo illustrates the note card writer who takes great joy in mailing thousands of cards over the years. She happens to be my Mother and my first sales person! This all started with her encouragement to write thank you notes for EVERYTHING!
A cousin of mine was gracious enough to let me write him into the history of my note card business. Just by letting me photograph his fine hands in the act of writing a note card, he proves without a doubt that REAL MEN WRITE NOTE CARDS!
A “Hero” is a term we use in the Photography business to describe the actual product used as the subject of an image. This is a product shot with one of my “Red Anemone” note cards used as the hero. This actual “hero” has long since been fulfilled in its role as a note card spreading some good thought, sentiment or just to spread love which is the main idea of all this work. Everyone! All together now! With feeling! Write like you mean it! Write your hand off! Preferably with a nice pen on a grand paper.
We Want to Know… how your day was? How you are feelin’? Where you have been all my life? What took you so long? How old you REALLY are? Do you have food? Whatever you want to know…these American Saddlebred yearlings from Kentucky want to know too.
Why is my husband’s banjo hanging on this barbed wire fence beside a crop of daffodils? It’s merely a vehicle for stopping on the side of an extraordinary and very familiar “Southern Country Road”, Colony Road in rural Chester County, SC. On an f/22 day, which means “very bright outside” in photography lingo, the daffodils were at home in the sunlight and begging for a photo. To add random interest to the scene, I grabbed this innocent banjo and shot it down.
It was a Friday night. We made this small fire in the middle of an open field and proceeded to stare at it for a long time. I highly recommend this activity. Tonight, tomorrow night, or the following night is a fine time for staring at a campfire. If you can’t find a place to build a fire, feel free to buy this card and stare at it in your leisure time or join us for a boot melting campfire in our back yard.
I sat down here to upload this photo at 2:30 am on November 1, 2007, but the creative act, the lightning instant of give-and-take in the words of the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the creative act of making this photograph took place some years ago on a solitary afternoon at the Ponderosa property after a morning of picking a gallon or two of blackberries for my beloved and now returned to the Universe, Uncle Bill. For me, the blackberries pictured here are steeped in meaning as they are the last berries I picked for him before his passage and blackberries were his favorite. I can’t look at blackberries without thinking of him. After the blackberries were delivered, consumed, and “forgotten,” I created this note card for him as a Christmas gift the following winter. And so Bill and his black berries now take on another life which happens to be the inaugural leap for the photographer into the movement of open source. Another gift for Bill and to Bill. I hope to carry forward his spirit of inquiry and love of free knowledge which was clearly evidenced by the dedication of his entire career as a reference librarian in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library. I hereby dedicate these blackberries yet thrice to Bill in his memory and to the world for the first time via the virtual river of information and knowledge flowing freely 24/7.
This picture just grabs me like a crab on my toe. The color is always fussy but it is a keeper. It just won’t let go of me, like a crab, only in this case it’s a fish and also that face I love so well.
