We spent the better part of last week focused on Long Island Photo Gallery. We kicked off a new season of photography networking with our annual meeting on September 22, 2010. Great turn out and great ideas. (See previous post)

Then we bought a booth and displayed our fine art at the West Islip Craft Fair. A huge fair, filled with great vendors, food and music. Long Island Photo Gallery was one of the great vendors. Right up there with the pickle vendor!

Those that passed by were drawn into our ‘gallery’ to view our newest medium, the Gallery Wrapped Canvas printed by member Rich Lombardi. We sold a lot of matted prints and we believe that the amount of cards and literature that we gave out will carry over to sales off the website.

We also believe that we could see our membership grow as a result of being at the fair. Numerous photography buffs stopped in to chat. We met so many really nice people.

Photo Credit - Joe Cubiotti

Thanks to Mike Stein and his daughter Danica (who wanted a plate of bacon for breakfast) who came out to help us set up and sell. Mike sold 3 pieces! Congrats Mike! Also thanks to some of our members that stopped in to say hello. Kim Pace with her boys and Mom. Joe Cubiotti with his good friend Derek. Mark Stumpf with his son, daughter and parents. Great to see you all!

Next up … Fink’s Farm photography field trip. October 9th, 2010 at 1:00 PM. Please RSVP at Event Brite and please visit the Fink’s Farm website for attraction information. This is a FAMILY field trip and is a great place to play with the camera.

Well, there were only a handful of us, but we had fun and we took lots and lots of great pictures last night at the 1st EVER Long Island Photo Gallery Photography Field Trip.  We are moving forward!

Location?  Fire Island’s Cedar Beach & Boat Basin.

Although the weather was threatening and reports were for thunderstorms, the sun came out (along with the mosquitos) and we walked around with our equipment and took in some of the best that Long Island has to offer.

The ocean was calm.  The volleyball courts were packed.  And it was dinner time at the boat basin with all the BBQ’s fired up and serving up the good stuff.  We’ll do another Fire Island field trip in the spring.  See more images from this field trip on our Fan Page on FaceBook.

Now it’s time to turn our Long Island attention inland.  To the east.  To the farms and the vineyards.

Join us for our NEXT successful field trip to Fink’s Country Farm.  Click HERE for details.