I-91 & I-15 Overpass First, the title of this blog will probably get the attention of the LA Dodgers and the (LA) Anaheim Angeles fans, so first my apology to them, this is not about baseball and the games these two crosstown rivals play against each other. What I am thinking about now is the... Continue Reading →
Convergence
Shanghai Underpass Peddlers Interesting when a number of unrelated things come together at bout the same time. I just found out that I will probably be heading back again for another two week project in China at the end of September. Which has me thinking about what it is that I want to work on in terms of... Continue Reading →
Georgete’s Question
Preparaing Caffine (from the series; Insomnia: Hotel Noir) Earlier today, I received the following comment and question from Georgete; I like your pictures a lot. Though I find landscape interesting, I miss the human element in your photos. Do you do it in purpose? If you do, why? This is a really big and I... Continue Reading →
Juggling projects
On further reflection after yesterdays post, I think that I am in the transition of juggling multiple projects. One where most of the image making is complete for what I have photographed to date. One where I am in the midst of developing the final images and a couple of projects where I have the raw data and... Continue Reading →
Transition
Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 This is a period for me that feels very transitional, that I am in an in-between state. I feel that I am about as far as I go with the available images for my roadside remembrance memorial series, although I still need to spend some time on the Artist Statement. I have... Continue Reading →
ArtBiz101 – Seasonal budgeting
Maintenance Entrance (from the series: Insomnia; Hotel Noir) I was about to move on to the topic of Marketing for the ArtBiz101 series. But while talking about retail sales recently, I realized that for perhaps a lot of artist, seasonal budgeting is a must. That is to say that during the year, you will have a really big... Continue Reading →
The uncreative side of Art
Cross in Wildflowers (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) The creative side of being an artist is really great, exploring the potential of the medium and your inner thougths and then seeing the results on paper or what every you final output is. In comparison, file maintenance and making sure your documentation and back-ups are in... Continue Reading →
Web site updated
Three Bouquets on Freeway Overpass (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) Well, I just updated the image titles and rearranged some of the images on my web site for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. One of the changes in the layou was my reaction to a comment by Kjell on my series, specificly the one image that was... Continue Reading →
Image titles: Bad Trip – Sad Trip
Indiana State Route 30 - 2007 For the image titles in my series In Passing (Updated: original working title; Bad Trip - Sad Trip), I had first started using a more documentary form of naming convention with the titles, essentially "what it is" or "where it is". After a number of emial exchanges with Colin Jago (blog: Photostream) about images that... Continue Reading →
My refined CS3 B&W workflow
Cross and two Butterflies, Nevada (from the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip) Having used CS3 for the last month and half, I now recoginize that I have changed my digital workflow to create my Black and White images. When I made this photograph (Cross and two Butterflies) last year with my Canon XTi, Phototshop... Continue Reading →