Nature Landscape Photography Blog

What has driven me to sell a rare Peter Lik print? I want to get a Digital Camera of course!
Recently I have been a bit frustrated with my gear situation. My Minolta light meter died on me which was expected to happen (it was very old) but I was still sad to see it go. The light meter paired nice with my 40 year old medium format Hasselbad (remember the film holding cameras?). Besides the light meter I have been thinking about my lack of production of new images and a lot of it has to do with lack of time. If I don’t start shooting more often I will sell my entire image collection which I made the editions a bit too small. Shooting with film takes a lot of time when you consider all the steps necessary to get it to print. I don’t have as much free time these days, with school and work, so I have become more of a part-time photographer. I envy the ability of the Professional landscape photographers who has the means to travel the world without concern and shoot beautiful images with their top of the line Digital Cameras, some even cost around 30k. I can’t do anything about the time situation but I can do something about my gear as I am going to sell a 1/950 Peter Lik image of Lightning above the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. The image is 20×20″ and can be re-framed by the new owner. There is no Certificate of Authenticity besides the signature and edition number on the print which is all that is needed (thats all you will most likely get when you buy a Ansel Adams print). I am not going to buy that crazy 30k Hasselblad but potentially something like a canon 5d mark ii. Just the other day I photographed a friends store opening and could have used such a camera… they are amazing in low light situations and give you great detail.

How much should a Number one Photograph by Peter Lik fetch in today’s market? I saw it posted on Lik’s site that a “one of a kind” sold for 1 million… wow thats pretty impressive so I suppose now is as good as any to sell my rare Peter Lik shot. The image is signed in the bottom right corner and numbered 1/950 and was given to me as a gift while I was working as Lik’s U.S Director. It is hard to know what is true when talking about art value as I always hear things via websites and what someone might say about value but this will be a true test. I didn’t want to post it on Ebay as it may not get noticed and I really don’t sell many things on ebay so there is a lack of experience to deal with. Below are some images of the print and as you can see it is actually pretty cool. I think Lik took the image while we were initially opening his first Las Vegas Gallery, as he stayed near the casino in his R.V, which would have allowed him to be on the spot during such a cool instance of lighting striking above the Stratosphere. The image is great you can see that he did a time exposure by the over-exposed lights in the bottom area of the image. The time lapse would allow for the lightning to strike but how he captured it with the stratosphere is pretty amazing. Lighting strikes often in Las Vegas but capturing it like this is not likely to happen again. My hats off to Lik…
Shoot me an email at bartramgallery@yahoo.com for offers.