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Another thing that I really enjoy about Bikers and all events that surround them is their Patriotism and love for our Armed Forces. There is a lways a tribute bike, POW/MIA and or Veterans association nearby. It brings me back to what I miss about the Corps... the Brotherhood and the feeling of belonging. I have not felt this way since I left the Corps.

Semper Fi

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I had plenty of time to think about life while I was gone; where I am, where I have been and where I am going. I have decided that I want to reconnect more with nature and get away from shooting many models. I am not saying that I won't but it is not at the type of my list of things to do. I am going to focus more attention on getting back into shape and spending more time in the mountains. I have rekindled the fire to start rock climbing again so I am training very hard towards that discipline.

I hope to get back into shooting as well? I took some photos yesterday while hiking in the mountains but I really only liked a few out of the whole roll... I posted one just a few moments ago... I hope you all enjoy the beauty even though it is in black and white.

Well that is it for now... all I can say is I am glad to be back home in this beautiful country!

Semper Fi

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Please remember that there are Hundreds of thousands of young people over here trying to do thier best to give a nation and fellow humans a better life. Regardless of what you may think about this whole situation the men and woman on the ground see it differently. We see the faces of these people daily and we know that we are maiking a difference in thier lives.

Take care and have a great day!

Semper Fi

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Unfortunately I am in a similar place with my photography. I went out shooting today in a botanical garden hoping to spark something internally but I am not quite sure it did. I have been waiting for a couple of models to get back with me... they said they wanted to do a shoot but they seem to have disappeared. Oh well...

It seems the only thing that seems to be progressing in the right direction would be my martial arts training and conditioning, yippy... not as young as I used to be and I am feeling it at the end of every session. I guess I should quit my crying and suck it up!

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Ok, guess it's time I clearly explain this... Since I've received a few requests now to use my photos for a variety of purposes...

The answer is "No, my photos are not stock, they can't be used, modified, copied, referenced or whatever..."

I will explain why...

1. The agreement I have with my models (a lot of whom are also close friends) is that the photos will not be used or modified by someone other than myself or the model. I value the trust they have put in me to make sure that the portrayal of them or the concept we created together will remain under our control. If I gave permission to use the photos I lose part of that control and in a sense I violate the trust of my friends and creation partners and I will never accept doing that.

2. I feel that the images I create with the models are very personal... I and the model put a lot of ourselves in the work and I can't stand to see it modified, copied or used... When that happens I feel it is no longer as much mine and that I lose the part of myself I've put in the project and in the photo.

I hope everyone now understands why I refuse to have my photos used but whether or not you understand or agree with my reasons, this answer is pretty much final... Just to be clear, this applies to all my photos on my gallery here, and all the sites to which I or my models have posted photos...

Of course, I am available to create commissioned photos that would be created especially for the requester/client to use.

Thank you for your understanding and respecting my wishes!





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I was contacted by a model I work with on a regular basis this afternoon; who is also on DA. Apparently a person downloaded a photograph of her off of her DA page, a picture of her that I shot with my copyright on it . They then did a photo manipulation on it! He then asked her permission to post it, after he had already removed my name and did his manipulation. No credit was given to either one of us.

That is theft and absolute BS! I don't care if they are asking permission after the fact!

What the hell is the matter with people! Absolutely no more photomanips allowed except for my friend Kat!

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I will be out of commission for the next week and be back on the 27th. I will be in the mountains of Upstate NY for Thanksgiving at my wifes parents home. I apologize for all the comments that I have not got to respond to yet but they will be here when I return. Need to take a break and do some climbing in the mountains and clear my head....

Everyone have a great holiday and I have a few shoots lined up when I get back! SOme new subject matter!

Happy Thanksgiving

MB

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Tim is a friend of mine and his work is second to none. Please welcome him to DA.

He will probably put me out of business but oh well.....



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Have a photo shoot to day with my favorite model Garnet! I have the privilege to be working with my friend Tim at his studio, "Mungo Studio" I am sure that you will not be dissappointed with the outcome.

If you like pin-up work you must checkout his portfolio, he is new on DA.

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I don't know, if you were going to post my works to sell as a prints, which would you select? I have my favorite of course but they are not always what my watchers may want....

Any suggestions?

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Have a great week!

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Have a great weekend!

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I sat in on my first practice this evening with a band I hope to joining here in the near future. These guy's made me totally at home and it almost felt like I have been playing with them for weeks already. Only one other time in my life have I sat in a with a group this tight and man did they have fun... it was not just a practice but also a comedy show! I look forward to see what the future holds with them.

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I was going through my gallery this morning and as I browse through I have noticed a handful of my photos are missing? The series I began of Garnet (plaid) are not viewable when you go through and browse by newest... you can find them if you search through by "popular" but they are totally gone when you search "newest" Has anyone experienced this before?

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I have noticed many of you who first started to watch my work in the beggining are no longer commenting on my photos. I know that many of you enjoyed my landscapes and other photos and that my photos have changed. I feel like I owe you all an apology and at the same time I don't. We go through many changes and experiences in life and often times are work reflects our attitudes and emotions. As you can see my work has changed and evolved throughout the last year as I have felt and experienced great dissapointment and loss.

I am not asking anyone to feel sorry for me because you don't have the details and will not get the details....

But the journey continues and so will I... thanks to all of you who have stuck with me and to those of you who don't care to watch anymore I still thank you and wish you all the best.

Have a great weekend

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Went out with Djinn, Garnet and Gargirl last night and we are setting up a shoot in three weeks! For all you Garnet fans I will have some fresh material!

Have you ever hung your hopes and dreams and future on an individuals promises? Just to be left totally hanging holding everything and they don't deliver anything? If this has happened to you let me know how you felt and how you responded?

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"I think the eye make-up was overdone a bit... but thats just me, and my opinion is one of many. But that doesn't mean it carries any less weight than the opinion of the many, nor does it carry more, but rather just enough opinion to make a difference to the stew of so many other flavorful comments. Kind of like parsley, except that does't really add too much and can be done without I guess, which is the opposite of what I was going for... Ok, its like garlic, adds another level to the sauce while not taking over the taste of other things like tomatoes or salt, but some are more sensitive to it than others and may choose not to take the garlic as an attempt to enhance the sauce but instead to overdue it and as a result turn an otherwise enjoyable dish into an overpowering insult. I could go for some food right about now, so thats what Im going to do... eat food.


thank you and sleep well."

-jake

I hope you all enjoyed as much as I did. ]]> ~mrb24 http://mrb24.deviantart.com/journal/8128452/ http://mrb24.deviantart.com/journal/8128452/ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:24:04 PST
Have a great weekend.

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Listening to: Silence
Reading: 1929

First I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there in DA land. Enjoy your day with your friends and family.

Well, it is finally happening, I spent most of the day yesterday corresponding with National Arenacross series Headquarters and I have about 40 pictures on the site now! They are only small jpeg's but they are posted.

[link]

I am currently preparing a disk with high res pictures to send to them for print and promotional work. Secondly, I have been in contact with Dirt Rider Magazine and they currently have a handfull of my photos in LA. I am hoping to land some work as a contributing photographer for their publication. Lastly I have a meeting at Lowes Motorspeedway next week with a gentleman who might be able to help me break into another area of motorsports.

The Bible teaches us knock and it shall be opened, ask and you shall receive but in the literal translation we are not to knock just once and walk away but to keep on knocking. So all of you out there trying to break in keep on pursuing. I know it is easy to get discouraged, I do myself but bounce back and move on to the next shoot.

SO be encouraged everyone and keep pursuing your dreams!

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Listening to: One Hot Night In Paris, Phil Collins Big Band
Reading: Under Fire

My apologies to everyone. I recently have started my own photography business and I have been slammed! I don't think you can ever realize what goes into something like this until you launch out and do it. I have been out 4 nights a week and on weekends shooting events in clubs, festivals and private parties. Although the pay for some of these events is pretty lame it gives me a great avenue to introduce myself to many people in the local communtiy.

So in saying that my time on this site is going to be dramatically decreased. I really enjoyed viewing many of your photographs and as well having some very interesting conversations. I will occasionally be dropping by and viewing photos and even posting photos, however not like I did in the past.

You guy's and girls behave and have a great rest of the week.

Marty

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Listening to: One Hot Night In Paris, Phil Collins Big Band
Reading: Under Fire



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Listening to: One Hot Night In Paris, Phil Collins Big Band
Reading: Behind Enemy Lines



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Reading: God's Children
Watching: Pulp Ficton

I am feeling pretty good about myself as my win streak has just beem extended. My son and I have an on going battle int he board game of RISK, the game of world domination. I just finished routing him through N America from South America and then surrounded him in England from all sides. Victory is sweet! I have a feeling he may give me a run one day but until then I must lavish in the victory.

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Reading: God's Children
Watching: Fight Club

I am pretty excited.... as I walked through the carnival the other night I was stopped by a young lady who commented on my camera. She represented a Cuban Dance Club and proceeded to invite my wife and to come to the club and take some dance lessons. I am still contimplating the invite but the most exciting part is that I was invited to photograph at the club. So I am heading out to investigate and see what is up in Little Club Havana.

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Reading: God's Children
Watching: Fight Club

I don't know what to make of a certain situation, maybe someone could help figure it out. Recently a friend of mine ran into some hard times in his personal and professional life. Up until this point I believed that he was honest with me. He is a photographer and I might add a very talented one at that. Anyhow, due to some unforseen circumstances he lost most of his equitment.... seeing as I know photpgraphers need a camera to make money and he had several shoots lined up I thought I would extend a helping hand. I happen to have an extra camera sitting around, a10D, it's not the best but it is mine. So i figured why not? I had the camera delivered to this individual, since he lives in a different state than I. He was more than happy to receive it. In fact he couldn't get it quick enough.

Here is where things turn strange, once he got the camera it became increasingly difficult to reach him? One night I located his new phone number and dropped him a line, he answered, though a bit suprised to find me on the other end. He said to call him the next day as he was heading out for the evening... Okay, I buy that.

The next day his phone(cell) was shut off? a bit strange but it happens, so I left him a message. Guess what? no return call. Now, today the number either has been shut off or changed and he cannot be found? What do you do? to be honest I want my camera back and my 1G card, because I don't believe he is using it for what he said and sure as hell hope that he did not sell it!

What would you do? Continue to pursue him or chalk it up as a bad move?

Oh by the way, if you are reading this and you know who you are, what did I due to you to deserve this? I have been nothing but a friend to you and honest with you. Hell, you even stayed at my home and had dinner with me and my family.

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I will be on the road for the next week so it will be a while on commenting on recent deviations as well as getting back to the kind comments.

Just finished reading an article in Popular Photography and I was amazed to learn of some of the features that I have at my finger tips with my 20D. Not only do I have a B&W setting, but I have a Sepia and if you mess with the B&W and add a filter you can shoot what is close to IR. That is good to know because my photography has been , let's say struggling a bit lately. I took several hundred photos the other day on a day trip and have not viewed them yet. I hope to have some posted by late next week. We shall see.

I hope everyone has a great remainder of the week and a great weekend. And if you read this bcphoto, I will be at Walter's house from Wed's the 15th to next Tuesday. Call me.

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I have been out of town for the last 3 days at a business meetings. I log on this morning and I have several hundred messages? I can't explain it so I start browsing comments and see congrats on being a DD. I must say that I am humbled by whoever thought to nominate me? The only reason I put the pictue up was I thought the colors were a bit diiferent and the windows created some nice linmes but I didn't even bother to frame it? Any how thank you to all for the many comments, some good and some bad, comes with people and opinions...... Have a great day every one.

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I apologize for my lack of commenting and posting lately. Not only has my job ad me hopping but I am in the middle of a move. I hope to be settled by the weekend and back to "normal". Oh, I forgot to mention that I am less than 6 blocks from the beach!

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I will be in NYC for the next couple of days...... Have to help at a fund raiser and also set up for the TODAY show. We will be jumping through hoops today and watching tomorrow. In addition I will have the privilage of speaking with many millionaires who are sipping cocktails and trying to show one another up..... blah, blah, blah. So if you can view the TODAY show on Tuesday with Katie and Matt Lauer my companieis product will be demonstrated live on national TV. I don't think me or my buddies will be on TV they are probably going to have some distinguished surgeon doing the demo and then MAtt and Katie will have a go at it. So if you see a surgical robot on the TODAY show then you will see what I do to pay the bills.

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There are advantages and disadvantages to everything. In this case a disadvantage to using a digital camera....... some how I accidentally deleted a handful of pictures I took the other day. Son of a b........ there were a couple of awesome shots I lost! The next group of photos I will most likely be posting have a beach theme to them as the waves were really nice the past couple of days. Hopefully I will be able to get to work on them tomorrow but I must get back to the task at hand. NACAR!

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Well I hit 2000 page views last night while I slept!!!! I reaaly don't know what that means. I don't think those visits are from all different people. I believe anytime someone visits my page it logs one so many of you may have contributed many times, thank you.

I recently submitted two photos, one of a rooster nd the other sunflower however my user page never updated, atleast when I view it. Can anyone tell me what is posted as my recent submission?

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Like I said to Bryan, a bad out photographing is better than a good day in the office. The job I was supposes to do toaday was pushed back until tomorrow. So I was able to complete another unit exam and essays, as well as hook up with my new freind Bryan, bcphoto. We went out and shot away and probably only got a few keepers, oh well. Really looking forward to this weekend though, heading to a State Park in PA, 27 named waterfalls and an abundance of wild flower meadows..... at least that what is written about this place. Who knows, maybe we will even catch a fireworks display on the way home? It is all good, we need to make the most of every day!

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