A years worth

I promise to update soon

I decided to have a short term goal for a minor sidenote in one of my online presences.  I want to get 1,000 fans on my Photography Page on FB.  I thought i'd solicit some of the people who follow my work on here to see if they would do me that favor.  I only need 110 more people.

Thank you very much

click the [link]

I just changed it because it talked about my vacation last summer and this summer is just starting now

good things are planned ahead and I have a model who is willing to try a whole bunch of fun shoots with me.  i'm truly blessed.

Traveled to France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy with my daughters.
Drove 6,000 miles from Florida to Alaska
Drank for 4 days straight at DragonCon in Atlanta with my girl and friends from the past 20 years and about 25,000 other people I didn't know before.

That is all over though now and have to get back to shooting like mad.

Which I will.

Cause I can



PS: I also owe someone a print, I haven't forgotten, just got unavoidably detained by life.

It's 5 away... I really am more excited about this than I should be

I should give a prize out to the person who gets it (and proves it)

What do you think it should be? A free print of their choice?

and shooting and shooting and catching up with all the editing...

not sure what I am shooting anymore though... not with a plan, just going with the flow...  I need to fix that.


other than that, the movie I just watched had way too much male full frontal nudity...forget sarah, i want to forget that...

though listening to Sinead's 'Nothing compares to you' in Hawaiian was kinda cool.

Let me catch my breath and catch up with editing...

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday of some sort...

Got some fun big shoots... shooting the 2010 Mustang was fun, and you can see my fun shots of a Fat Boy Harley on here as well... so the studio has been fun for that....

Been doing more agency work which has picked up which is great....

And doing lots of fun shoots... some more great stuff coming in the que...

so anyway,

Merry Christmas everyone and all that jazz

Ok, well I have seen it. Hell, I have been neck deep in it with a diamond saw cleaning it at times.  Now, The studio is almost ready.  Still building that 24' wide cyc-wall but I went ahead and built a myspace page for it in the meantime.  Sort of as a test run to see what works for the real website.

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Take a look around, enjoy, comment and if you are in the area... use! lol.

Cheers,
Jesse

Just liked the way the words rolled around in my head... although this post isn't about models and not so maudlin as introspection.

Not even sure why I am posting this here, it would be more suited to my livejournal if I ever posted to that anymore... haven't in years but it is there.

You can always see other people, clearly if only on the surface, but you can never see more than a small part of yourself without the distortion of a mirror.

That's why it is easier to solve other peoples problems or see the solution when you can't do a damn thing for yourself.

You are blinded from seeing yourself.

Have you ever made a recording of your voice and played it back thinking "Dear god, I sound like that?" because we hear ourselves speak through our bones as much as our ears.

It must be hard for movie actors to see their own movies.  Could you imagine seeing yourself on the big screen?

I have learned a little bit about myself over the years and I know when I am at my best.  I know the conditions that make me happiest and at my best.  I am having a hard time creating those conditions again.  Not because I don't want them or anyone is acting against them.  I just operate at my best when other people are involved.  I can't control other people though or it would defeat the point.  So I have to wait for the right people to come along and then convince them to hang around.  

Good friends are worth their weight in gold.

Friends help you move, good friends help you move bodies.

"Wasing is as wasing did" I think the quote goes.

Getting lazy in the studio.  Need to fix that and change things up.

Not sure why I have an affinity for hoodies, but for some reason I have started collecting photos of girls in them, both taken by me and looking at ones by others.

I feel that they should say something deep, or maybe shot right they harken back to another time for me.

Have to figure that one out.

Anyone have any links to great shots of people in hoodies?

Already got my present a little early... the D300 so not complaining... and the new studio is on it's way towards ready... still more work to put into the place but have been using it and loving it... can't wait to build a set in there though... got some big shoots coming up hopefully, some actual "names" in their own way... and lining up more businesses from which I can pull stuff for shoots

It's a good day today... hope everyone else is having a good one.

Once again I hit a numeric milestone, plus I needed to update my journal... a lot has happened since the last one, mostly personal, but as a photographer and an artist (more so as the artist) personal impacts how you shoot...

You will be seeing a lot of new faces appear regularly and not so much of some of the old standards in my port.

Opening up a studio in the next couple weeks... sign the lease Monday... it's 2,400 sq/ft of commercial studio goodness... If you are in the Central Florida area and looking to take part in this let me know...

So yeah, a lot going on... I climb the highest mountains even though heights scare the crap out of me

~Jesse

PS: Palleas, yep I know more expression in the faces lol... I like teasing you.

From the trip...

I drove 3,200 miles by myself over 16 days.  Marliese [link] had 14 shoots and I had 6 shoots on the trip.  I managed to complete a 7 hour wrong turn and still not get murdered for it somehow.  We drove through 3 states and were a couple miles from Canada at one point and an hour away from Mexico at another.  I have seen the West Coast and except for Oregon you can keep it   We liked Oregon.  Oh, and we squeezed in a magazine party in L.A.

So, I am heading out for a fortnight on the west coast.  I am going to be shooting a lot so expect a bunch of new photos in new locations in a few weeks.  The down side of this trip is I won't be posting anything new for a few weeks as I won't be near my computer.

Now for those of you that read this on the west coast. Let me know. I have time and always looking for things and people to shoot.  Lets hang out or even set up a shoot.

Seattle: August 2-6
Portland (Mt. Hood): August 7-10
San Francisco: August 11-13
L.A.: August 14-17

In 1989, CompuServe devised an enhanced version of  the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format for the World Wide Web. It was called 89a, and it added support for multiple images in a stream, interlacing and storage of application-specific metadata. Basically, the Animated Gif was born.

Now, 19 years later, I decided to finally get off my rumpus and learn how to make them.  For the longest time I had been seeing shot sequences in my shoots that I knew would make enjoyable, artistic or just humorous animations.  I just never got around to learning how to make them.

So now that I have made two of them, [link] and [link]

The first is a simple two frame animation, but the second is a great ten shot sequence from a shoot about 4 months ago with Marliese down in Stuart, FL.

Hope you enjoy them.  Let me know what you think.  Should I do more for fun sometime?

~Jesse

If the photos start to look a little different in their finishing.. a bit more polished in post... don't worry I am not off my rocker... just trying new things out and like anything when you first learn something new you overuse it just a bit...I remember years ago when I thought diffuse glow was the bomb (long enough ago that I used the phrase "the bomb" one of those pre-sept 11th phrase that were banned under the patriot act)...anyway I seem to have also gotten into the habit of journal writing to abandon all logical punctuation and instead revert back to a Victorian telegraphic line break of sorts consisting of three periods...instead of saying [stop]like they used to in telegraphs[stop]see what I mean[stop]I got a telegraph for my birthday once[stop]yeah I'm that old[stop]


PS: It's late...

Been a lot of changes... bunch of new photos added and finally passed 50k when I wasn't looking... does that mean I have evolved emotionally that I am not here just to get page views? lol.

Any requests for themes of shots from the people that actually read this?

~Jesse

Been a member here for almost three years, six weeks till three years to be more precise and it wasn't until five months ago that I hit 10,000 pageviews and now those five months later I have hit 30,000 pageviews.

Of course this was due in no small part to being awarded a daily deviation, for which again I thank whoever it was and I thank everyone who commented, it means a lot.

So who knows what the next three years are going to bring, I know they have brought a lot into my life and into my work, heck I have changed exponentially in the last year to use that word again.

Dunno, just wanted to leave a journal and see if anyone had any ideas.

Pax,
Jesse