*Muskeg

Hi all! It's been a long time since I last updated my journal--not much of a blogger, I guess. I do plan on being a little more active with the ol' journal a little--I really enjoy reading the journals of those I watch, and it seems a little unfair not to share right back. I plan to learn a little CSS to dress it up some...

Had a wonderful shoot this afternoon with Mariah. What a treat! I'll be posting new images over the next week or so from today's shoot. This was my second shoot with her, and I have read that a photographer's best work with a model is after their third shoot together--I can hardly wait! The first shoot went better than I could have hoped for, and the one today yielded even more and better images.

Here're a few thumbs from the first shoot, already in my gallery:



The plan for now is to shoot every other Sunday for the forseeable
future. More experience for me and my buddy Dave ~AlaskaPhoto behind the lens, and an opportunity for Mariah to expand her portfolio. We're even talking about a calendar project. Yay!

The band my daughter ~LaurenGirly is in will be playing at a local event next month "The Monthly Grind". If you're in
Ketchikan, check them out--they're called "Slug Tussle", and they're an all-girl band, ages 9-13. Here's my little bass player:




I know there are some of you here on dA, but I can't find you . Use the geography feature to post your latitude and longitude, and we can find one another... It's really pretty easy, and described here:

FAQ #278: In my settings there is a Geographic coordinates section. What is this for? and how do I use it?

It'd be nice to connect up with other photographers, artists, and models in my area for coffee, a coupla beers, or especially for some
collaborative work. If you're in Ketchikan, like me, Here's your Latitude and Longitude:







I kind of enjoy it when people post useless trivia about themselves in their dA journals, so here's a couple tidbits about me:


Useless Personal Trivia Item #7
I hitchhiked across Australia and back when I was about 20. Loved it. Many of my favorite photographers and models here on dA are from Australia... Would love to go see it again.

Useless Personal Trivia Item #8
I am the proud father of two wonderful girls, 13 and 14 years old. My eldest is a special needs kid, and is a total joy to be around. She
loves music--the Beatles, Elvis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra--all the
oldies. She's also a big movie fan, especially of comedy films. Her
all-time favorites include "Napoleon Dynamite", "Lloyd", "The New Guy", anything with Jerry Lewis or Jim Carey in it, Abbot and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd--too many to mention. Her current favorite film is the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine", and current crushes include Ringo Starr, Michael J. Fox, and Tony Danza. My youngest is the creative one in the family--does ballet, pointe, and tap dancing, plays guitar and bass, and acts in plays like her dad. Both girls love to be on stage. Wonder where they get *that*?

Useless Personal Trivia Item #9
I have been active with the Elks (a charitable organization here in the U.S.) for 26 years, and will be an Exalted Ruler for the third time in a couple of months.

Until next time,

I noticed it's been since July since I updated my Journal, so I overcame my natural tendency towards procrastination and decided to write a little something...

Finally got my friend Jenny P back into the studio, and had a shoot yesterday that resulted in some really nice images. I uploaded one today, and will put several more up over the next couple of days. Also had another shoot with one of my daughters and a handful of her friends, so there are some more fun kid portraits that will go online over the course of the week.

I dug out my old scanner, and plan on hooking it up this week, so should have some good older work to post soon. I'm really excited to get some old favorites of mine online. I'm thinking it may be time to think about a
negative scanner, too--I'd love to scan in some work and see what I can do to some of my older work with a little PhotoShop tweaking.


I know there are some of you here on dA, but I can't find you . Use the geography feature to post your latitude and longitude, and we can find one another... It's really pretty easy, and described here:

FAQ #278: In my settings there is a Geographic coordinates section. What is this for? and how do I use it?

It'd be nice to connect up with other photographers, artists, and models in my area for coffee, a coupla beers, or especially for some collaborative work. If you're in Ketchikan, like me, Here's your Latitude and Longitude:







I kind of enjoy it when people post useless trivia about themselves in their dA journals, so here's a couple tidbits about me:


Useless Personal Trivia Item #4
I drive a 1987 Toyota van. Two weeks ago, I put a Motley Crue cassette in the stereo, and the EJECT button broke, so I've been stuck listening to "Girls, Girls, Girls" ever since. Guess I'd better buy a CD player for the van.

Useless Personal Trivia Item #5
My first camera was a 35mm Pentax Spotmatic, back when I was about 13. I built my first darkroom around that same time. I bought my first "real" camera, a Nikon F2, when I was 17. That was 31 years ago, and I still have
it. It works great! I haven't had an active darkroom for about 20 years now, but I have one three-quarters built in my garage, with enough equipment for three darkrooms. Ever the procrastinator, and ever broke, it may be another year before I get my hands wet in a darkroom again. These days, I use a Canon EOS 20D. I have a collection of film cameras, most of them functional, but don't really use them.

Useless Personal Trivia Item #6
I auditioned for a part in Oliver last week, along with my youngest daughter. Should find out this week if either of us has a part.


Until next time,

Well, my gallery is slowly growing... It's still all portraits, and I'm still planning to remedy that by including other work, but I'm a notorious world-class procrastinator.

Many thanks to all those who've commented on the few works I've posted so far, as well as to those who've marked some of my works as favorites. Your encouragement has moved me to subscribe to dA and to get into the studio more.

You'll notice that my gallery is mostly my kids and their friends--I really need to shoot more adults. If you've ever taken a look at the photos I mark as 's, you'll note that they're nearly all nudes and figure studies. I'd really like to try my hand at that kind of work, but I guess I'm a little too self-conscious or shy to ask anyone... If you're an adult over 18, and live in my area, just show up naked at my studio and tell me to start shooting *chuckle*...

I'm still planning to plug in a scanner, so that I can put some of my older work online, and I'm still planning to scour the hard drives of a couple of my other computers for work worthy of posting on dA... Darn that pesky procrastination!

Looks like I have a business trip that will take me to St. Louis in August. If there are any photographers in that area who'd like to catch up for coffee or shoot a few photo's give me a holler... Will have about 24 hours of free time before the business part of my trip ties me up, and it'd be fun to meet a fellow deviantArtist...



I know there are some of you here on dA, but I can't find you . Use the geography feature to post your latitude and longitude, and we can find one another... It's really pretty easy, and described here:

FAQ #278: In my settings there is a Geographic coordinates section. What is this for? and how do I use it?

It'd be nice to connect up with other photographers, artists, and models in my area for coffee, a coupla beers, or especially for some collaborative work. If you're in Ketchikan, like me, Here's your Latitude and Longitude:





I kind of enjoy it when people post useless trivia about themselves in their dA journals, so here's a couple tidbits about me:

Useless Personal Trivia Item #1
I went to 18 different grade schools. From kindergarten until 7th grade, I was on the road with my mother and stepfather, who were musicians. When I wasn't in a new school, I was being home-schooled. Oddly enough, I never learned to play a musical instrument until decades later.

Useless Personal Trivia Item #2
I have three box turtles (Turbo, Killer, and Bob), two cats (Andy and Bug), and a passive-aggressive yip-yip dog (Meekah).

Useless Personal Trivia Item #3
I'm involved with the local community theatre. Plays I've been in over the past several years include Camelot, Oklahoma!, Art, The Tavern, The Emperor's New Clothes, Peter Pan, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Music Man, All in the Timing, and Fiddler on the Roof. I may be forgetting one or two.

Until next time,

Well, I passed 1,000 pageviews, and am encouraged to create and display more work, as well as set up my scanner and post some of my older print work. Many thanks to those who've commented and critiqued on my images.

I also finally subscribed to dA, and have more options to make for a better journal, so plan to make better use of the journal space.

I'm still in the process of organizing my computers and hard drives, so I can get more of my work online soon. I live in a gorgeous part of the world, and it's silly not to share some of my home online. I'm in southeast Alaska, on an island in a dense rainforest, surrounded by mountains, rivers, lakes, and ocean, and populated with whales, sea lions, bears, deer, eagles, and an endless variety of sea life and birds. Again, thanks to those who've encouraged me to make my gallery more than just a portraitorium.



I know there are some of you here on dA, but I can't find you . Use the geography feature to post your latitude and longitude, and we can find one another... It's really pretty easy, and described here:

FAQ #278: In my settings there is a Geographic coordinates section. What is this for? and how do I use it?

It'd be nice to connect up with other photographers, artists, and models in my area for coffee, a coupla beers, or especially for some collaborative work.



Got a shoot planned for this weekend, so should have new recent photos to post over the next week, too.

Until next time,