Ken Tschappat Photography

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Ken Tschappat Photography

This is my art. I use primarily a camera, and a few lenses, mostly with people.

10/17/2026

At 50? Some never hear about some of these.

10/14/2026

A couple of weeks ago I submitted two photographs to the Children's Hospital call for art. Well, today, I got an email asking for another print. I hope that is a good sign, and not they want to give me another chance to get in the show. In any case, we should know by next week or so if we made it in.

10/08/2026

Put a castle I built years ago on Craig's List today. Kind of hate to see it go, but I need the space for a print archive.

10/04/2026

Recovering at home today. First Friday was a bit rough. Had so much space, and so many opportunities to engage with people. Learned a lot, and had fun.

09/30/2026

The First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe is coming up in a couple of days, so I am prepping prints for sale in my bins thinking of what a gallery owner said. What am I doing now?, was the question.

Friends, since I tore my rotator cuff, I've not really used my camera much, a few times at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, a couple of car shows, and a senior shoot. That is it. I have been so caught up in printing, and framing a few, and showing at every opportunity.

I have been neglecting a huge part of my creative needs simply because I lost momentum in the part that requires human in me to find the human in someone else. That is not so easy for an introvert.

In the words of Ned Stark, winter is coming. It was my intention last year to print and frame as many photographs as I could while it was cold outside, and show all of that work the next summer. That proved to be quite a stretch while in a sling.

My selection of framed prints has taken over a portion of my basement storage area, and I kind of feel set for show season right now (I have almost twenty prints on about 28 foot of gallery space this month at the VAC).

What has been on my mind is that question the gallery owner asked. The answer that is rolling around in my mind these past days is I need to reach out again, to the creative people I know, that know me. I need subjects. Creative people like you (most of those on this page have followed me over from my other page, for the art).

Well, I need some new art. I need some people to work with. It's hard for me to ask people for their time, as I know how precious our time on this planet is, and I don't want to waste anyone's time. But I want to work with you. So, this might be painful.

Model: Dianna Carver

09/29/2026

We were taking Senior Photos at the zoo. Immediately I began to have problems with my camera, the same one I hardly ever use these days. I was having so many different issues, I basically did a factory reboot. Meaning, all my switches were neutralized. Never really thought about how that affected the raw files. In any case, when I got home my sd card #1 had 44 files, DNG and jpg files. My heart just stopped. What was I going to tell my senior? I was in a panic, because this has happened once before, with my last camera. And that accident directly influenced my purchase of this K-1. The K-1 has dual card readers. I pulled out the SD card and inserted it into my card reader on my computer. And it had a more appropriate number of files. I started breathing again.

Thank you Pentax.

09/28/2026

Entered two prints into the Children's Hospital call for art.

09/11/2026

Today I was again printing littles, looking for the bigs in there. Found this one of Lilybelle Wilson. Hadn't printed it before. What a shame, the tones in this one were superb. So, I printed a big on matte paper.

09/09/2026

The past few days I have been printing little photographs for my Bins for the next First Friday. I think I make more money from the little prints, than the framed prints. So, I'm printing more small prints, and maybe a few big prints, unmounted. What do you think? Trying to cover all the price points.

The last photo I printed:

08/26/2026

It's been a few days, and I am still sad. I've not yet received a shipment from B&H, but it is scheduled. So in awhile, I shall again become happy.

Not as sad a story as reality. The table I do all my work on has had the laundry on it for two days. But the laundry has been washed and is folded and all put away. So, game on, in awhile, after the delivery. In the meantime, I have a small 5x7 ( wanted to put into a frame for some time. Printed it as a test print and it turned out beautiful, so it gets a frame today, before my shipment gets here. Then later today I will mount the 13x19 to some foamcore for my bins. Then, the ink.

This little 5x7 is printed on some matte paper. It needs a little frame.

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