With five well-known photographers showing, I was expecting the Community Darkroom Gallery's "Meet the Photographers" opening to be packed. As it is a rather small space, I also expected walls covered with photos. Not so, on either count.

I walked in to find only two people and 25 prints. That's approximately five prints per photog, which sounds adequate, but there was way more white wall space exposed. I'm wondering why they didn't show more, maybe placing them two-up, instead of the steady stream of one photo after another. No, they wouldn't have to put them almost on the floor like at Image City, but more would have been nice. And using IC's idea of nametags would have been handy, too. There were more people in the back room/snacking station, but most of them seemed to come with the gallery. If any of the showing photographers were there, I couldn't tell. And why didn't they use the back room space, too, as it's even larger than the gallery area?

The photos were nice, though. Maybe the lectures will fill the space. I left feeling unfulfilled.

Next up: Cheerleaders at the Dome