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Well I don't even know if Wendall Decker has an account on here, however this message just popped up on my buletin on Myspace. I just thought some of you would want to know, maybe friends who know him better than I could talk to him or something. Anyways this is just so you know, Wendall said I could post this.
Wendall said:
I would like to take a minute to express my thanks to all my patrons, over the years. living and working as a Collodion Photographer has the been the most rewarding thing I've ever done in life. As many of you know, it is the ONLY thing I did. I dedicated my life to it. It was what I was born to do and where I belonged. It was the only LOVE I had. I had hoped to do nothing else again, until the day I died. I've loved traveling the U.S. I know I have touched a few lives. As many of you have touched mine. Yet, I fear it has all come to an end.
Some of you know that I lost my van in Feb., on my way to Olustee, Fl. Since then, I have had to rent Vans form Enterprise. It is costing me around $600 just to get to an event. That $600 I had to make before I could make my first $. With the Economy the way it is and gas prices, chemical prices, it has become impossible to make any money, at all. The "Camp Disgrace Gazzette" decided they didn't need to give me credit for my work anymore. Screwed up the article I had written, to try and put a book together too. So you know that I no longer deal with them. Recently my bank screwed up my whole account, so at the moment, I can't go ANYWHERE. I was hoping to have some work on a couple of movies, but doesn't appear that is going to happen either. I have lost around $15,000 aready, this year. So after 15 years, it looks like life got the better of me. There were 8 of us when I started. Far less of us today. Seems a once lost art is destined to become lost again.
I don't know if I've felt a hurt worst than this one. I had found my place, in this world and now will lose that too.
Too all of you that have ever had an image done by me, I hope it will ALWAYS bring back memories of the good times spent together. I AWLAYS gave it my best, because to me, you desired nothing less. If it weren't for YOU, I wouldn't have lasted as long as I did. I hope you will always enjoy the images I had made for you. For 15 years, I was a VERY happy man.
So thank you ALL, for you patronage and if I can no longer work with you, I am truely sorry. Makes me feel like I have let you all down.
TAKE CARE OF THE DAY
WENDELL
Wendall said:
I would like to take a minute to express my thanks to all my patrons, over the years. living and working as a Collodion Photographer has the been the most rewarding thing I've ever done in life. As many of you know, it is the ONLY thing I did. I dedicated my life to it. It was what I was born to do and where I belonged. It was the only LOVE I had. I had hoped to do nothing else again, until the day I died. I've loved traveling the U.S. I know I have touched a few lives. As many of you have touched mine. Yet, I fear it has all come to an end.
Some of you know that I lost my van in Feb., on my way to Olustee, Fl. Since then, I have had to rent Vans form Enterprise. It is costing me around $600 just to get to an event. That $600 I had to make before I could make my first $. With the Economy the way it is and gas prices, chemical prices, it has become impossible to make any money, at all. The "Camp Disgrace Gazzette" decided they didn't need to give me credit for my work anymore. Screwed up the article I had written, to try and put a book together too. So you know that I no longer deal with them. Recently my bank screwed up my whole account, so at the moment, I can't go ANYWHERE. I was hoping to have some work on a couple of movies, but doesn't appear that is going to happen either. I have lost around $15,000 aready, this year. So after 15 years, it looks like life got the better of me. There were 8 of us when I started. Far less of us today. Seems a once lost art is destined to become lost again.
I don't know if I've felt a hurt worst than this one. I had found my place, in this world and now will lose that too.
Too all of you that have ever had an image done by me, I hope it will ALWAYS bring back memories of the good times spent together. I AWLAYS gave it my best, because to me, you desired nothing less. If it weren't for YOU, I wouldn't have lasted as long as I did. I hope you will always enjoy the images I had made for you. For 15 years, I was a VERY happy man.
So thank you ALL, for you patronage and if I can no longer work with you, I am truely sorry. Makes me feel like I have let you all down.
TAKE CARE OF THE DAY
WENDELL
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