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]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/8210279/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/8210279/ Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:47:49 PST ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/6628386/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/6628386/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:01:50 PDT Warning! Failure imminent. Back-up and replace Hard-disk immediately.

Basically, what happened, is that my hard drive lost a lot of stability, possibly from the sheer number of times I reformatted it, but more likely from the fact that it is almost seven years old now. As a result, I could not actually run photoshop any longer, as it would take over 5 minutes to persorm a simple task such as resizing a photo. Hell, I could barely run firefox without my computer freezing every five minutes.

This should all be fixed soon, as I am getting a temporary replacement hard-drive soon, and will get a permanent one once I can afford it. Then hopefully working on photography won't be the tedious task it has been recently and I can actually get some work done. I've got a great roll of color photos from the Orientation program I helped with this summer (shot on Reala, my first excurion into higher-grade film) as well as about five rolls of black-and-white from various projects over the summer. Of course, I still need to process those, which will require me coercing the lab tech into secreting me in at untold hours of the night. 'Cause I like being sneaky like that. ::evil grin::

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For the moment, the Jazz portrait series and any other shots of Chris Botti or Jane Monheit are off limits. I understand that this might be the big draws, but the legality is still not worked out, so I'm hesitant to make any profit on them. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4405885/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4405885/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:02:53 PST
See the Kevin. See the Kevin smile! Smile, Kevin, Smile! ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4392590/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4392590/ Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:57:16 PST
So here's my question to all of you. Should I limit the series to one photo per artist? Or should I maybe use a couple of prints for each?

Oh, and now that I've got the series started, the Jane Monheit photos are going back up. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4044404/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4044404/ Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:16:41 PST
Now, before you start worrying about me, no, her production company didn't start banging on my door with a cease and desist order. Nor do I expect them to. I would, however, like to get her express permission to show the photos, and am currently working to get that. Given the way she was playing the camera while onstage, I doubt it will be difficult.

How am I going about this? Well, at the moment I have two options. The first is that I am going to attempt e-mailing her. I expect this will prove to be quite fruitful, and am hoping that I can get in touch with her soon.

My more desired method, however, would be to meet her in person, which may not be as difficult as you imagine. I am not without my contacts, and will soon be seeing New York Voices live, and may even be going to a dinner party with them or taking a workshop from them. Since Jane studied with Peter Eldrige, I'm thinking it might be possible to talk with him and get in contact with her.

In any case, all of the negatives have been uploaded, and I'm going to be working on the production of the photographs throughout Winter break. I've got nearly 100 viable negatives from the concert, at least 10 of which have shown to be relatively photogenic. Once I have permission from Jane to exhibit them, I'll have them ready to show.

On another note, I've gotten an idea for another photo project, namely a Jazz tribute. I'm thinking that while I'm at the New York Voices concert, I will likely do more shooting, as well as during the dinner party if possible. If possible, I'm thinking of doing a portrait series of Jazz vocalists. It may be too large an undertaking now, but we'll see what it looks like come next week. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4015332/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/4015332/ Sat, 11 Dec 2004 03:14:30 PST
For those wondering what the piece is, I took "quiet reflection" and inscribed a Japanese poem into it. Then, thanks to , I printed it out and matted it with a double window black on grey. All in all, it looks pretty nice. I would prefer to show photography only, but this is a step in the right direction. I'm in Photography next semester, so I know I'll be showing prints from that. In the meantime, it feels nice to have something on display finally. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/3070130/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/3070130/ Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:25:24 PDT
Friday evening, I saw some of the most wondeful skies in my entire life. Most of Friday it was rainy and aweful. Around 6:00, however, the clouds that had brought about the dreary drip turned right around and made some absolutely amazing sun reflections. We're talking that the sky looked as if it had ribbons of fire racing around it. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me. And even if I had, I was driving for Bellagio's, so taking time to snap a few shots wouldn't have been a good idea... However, from this point forwards I am carrying a disposable camera in my glove compartment for just these kind of situations. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/3022527/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/3022527/ Sun, 01 Aug 2004 22:26:49 PDT
Today, the family went out in our new boat, the first time our whole family has gotten to do that since it was bought three weeks ago. One the way there and back I took a number of shots of the Columbia Gorge, and while out I took a few of passing boats, and one photo (which I really hope will turn out well) of my brother waterskiing.

The assignment for the first roll (I've begun giving myself assignments for rolls of film to try to force myself to learn) was the difference of F-stops. We'll see how they turned up and how that will help me figure out what F-stop to use on the fly whenever I feel so inclined. I also began notating all of my shutter speeds, f-stops, and lens and filter uses for my records and just random info in case anyone might be interested. (I noticed that just about every photo in Pop Photo has specs on the shot noted, so I figured it might be a good idea to start myself.)

As you may have already guessed from the lack of followup, I did not win the contest I entered. Ah well, at least I tried, and more people saw my work than normally do. I've been getting a lot of uplifting comments recently, for which I'm very grateful. Thanks to all of you who take the time to stop by and appreciate what I do.

Anyways, back on subject. I took in the first roll of film this evening and after about a 20 minute wait, I now have a processed roll of negatives to work from. Since my computer is currently at a friend's house, it may be a little time before I can post anything, but I'll try to get something up as soon as possible. Look forward to some interesting landscapes and river views in the near future! ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2784136/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2784136/ Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:09:21 PDT *onewordphoto has two weekly and a monthly contest in photography, and I submitted my first piece today for the Face competition. I submitted,"a warming dream," which I consider to be the best out of the Amanda series. *crosses fingers* we'll see how this one turns out, but the nature of the topic means there are going to be a whole bunch of people I"m competing against.

I put up two pieces here today as well. While I was at a friends house on Monday, I put together a couple pieces I'd been thinking about. Fortunately, I"m now working two jobs. Unfortunately, that means I'm going to have little to no time during the rest of the summer to work on photography. Hopefully I'll get back to school, and hopefully the house will still be up for putting in a mini-darkroom. Then I'll have a lot more time, since next semester's schedule is light indeed. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2716111/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2716111/ Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:47:27 PDT
I think maybe I would like to do a few more Terragen pieces soon as well. It's been far too long since I've experimented with that... ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2466080/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2466080/ Wed, 19 May 2004 21:20:41 PDT
Wait. Work? Ah heck. Now I suppose it's time for me to head out somewhere and get a job. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2413655/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2413655/ Wed, 12 May 2004 12:43:53 PDT
I was looking over all of my old portraits, and it appears that all the burning I did on the backgrounds apparently wasn't enough. I've been seeing blotches all over, which I know I got rid of. Lucky me, I know how I can fix this permanently. Be aware that there will be a rash of uploads in the near future. You have been warned. ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2410884/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2410884/ Wed, 12 May 2004 01:08:37 PDT ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2334238/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2334238/ Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:11:39 PDT ]]> ~BardicDragon http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2304686/ http://BardicDragon.deviantart.com/journal/2304686/ Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:27:21 PDT ~BardicDragon