A couple of months ago I got an e-mail to my Flickr, telling me that I’d been selected to have some of my images included in a virtual exhibition in Florence, Italy.  I was seriously chuffed- I mean I don’t use Photoshop or anything on my images, I just take photos, so as you can imagine the idea of having some of my snaps included in an exhibition was a huge boost.  Imagine my astonishment then when I get an e-mail asking me to collate 55(!!!) of my images in JPEG format and send them off for inclusion.  Fair enough, but owing to RL commitments I’ve been too busy to set about the time to collate all the images required…I was planning on doing that this week. I was really disappointed when I requested extra time in response to their last e-mail to be told, nah sorry, not interested, we’ve got to start work on the catalogue! (This was despite their previous e-mail stating that if you needed extra time there was a possibility this could be arranged)Fine, I’ve lucked out..I’m sore and I’m having a whinge, BUT you can’t just ask someone to contribute 55 of their pictures along with an accompanying biography and notes when they live a real life which means they have a job to go to and a house to run. I would have had no problem signing the release form and just letting them copy the pictures from my Flickr-after all they’d seen and selected them in the first place, but enough of my moaning. I’m really sad I won’t be a part of the exhibition, but I do wish all the artists who will be participating the very best of luck with it.