For those of you who follow the photography world a little bit, you’re probably familiar with Peter Lik’s recent sale of a $6.5 million “one of a kind” photograph titled Phantom. I throw the one of a kind in quotes because it must be really nice to just be able to flip a color image you’ve been selling for years to a black & white and command such a huge price. News of this sale was quite astonishing with skeptics aplenty since the buyer was anonymous. The news took me back to Caesar’s Palace in Vegas in March 2008 when I first walked into one of Lik’s galleries. I was with one of my good friends and we were both blown away by the photographs on the walls. The size, the colors, the lighting and presentation, all of it was just beautiful and I was in awe.