I was Thinking, or Not

This is our barn from the street side. From Richland Farm The image was manipulated in the GIMP to produce a better sky. It still needs work and the test print was horrible, but that may be the printer as well. I do not like the wash that it has, it might work better in monochrome and I considered that, but I got frustrated with the photo before I got to it so this is just a sample shot with airbrushing and some photo fill. I can't believe that digital compares to film, but then again I am a film type of person, and I just don't get the tools I am trying to work with yet. Film I "grok" so it is only a matter of learning the new tools to produce acceptable images. Considering the time I have been working with these tools, but also considering that they are not the top of the line tools (well except for the GIMP ), I guess it is not too bad. Still not ready for prime time, but I am working on that. There are a few sites out there that have galleries for publicati...

Yea, another post on the post listening again in so many years to the Moody Blues. Yea and they are still such a groove, but you got to take it all in whole, not just this track or that track, 'cause man they wrote it to be listened to all the way through. Respect their intentions man, and listen to them solid grooves and heavy beats, from beginning to the end, there ain't no skip tracks, no silence, just smooth waves of cool all over the place. If you get the chance check out "Days of Future Past" from track one through, totally awesome, man, yea. Peace, JD

This is our house, that is Arleta's house, that she shares with me. It looks a little rough right now, but soon it will receive a fresh coat of paint and some minor updates and it will be a fine house indeed. Peace JD

I don't really have favorites per se. I usually go from one obsession to the next and back again with liquid fluidity. Today I am thinking that wouldn't it be nice to let some people in on a few of my thoughts. Well I am thinking that I want to craft a new photograph. Mostly because I am bored, and because I have to do something while I wait for the bank to make their move. So today we will maybe pick up the boy, if everything goes according to his Father's plan. Well that's fine because I want to shoot him too, but not in that way that you are thinking, no I mean with the camera. I have to go to the storage shed and get the tripod for the camera. Today I am going to go to the Salvation Army store with my wife Arleta, my step son Justin, and maybe, just maybe our friend Mary, oh yea what is her name America, awesome. While there I am going to look for a look that I want to portray in my next photo of Mary. Arleta will have to help me, I need just the right look....

For the longest time I really only shot pictures of landscapes and still life. I worked through phases where I really wanted to shoot people, because I think they are interesting, and because I was young and wanted to be cool with the babes. I did however find that Models generally suck, and I dislike the "professionals" almost as much. So I set about working with average people, but then that fucking idiot got caught chopping up boys posing as a photographer, and the whole thing got blown out of context. Yea, American Press for killing the work of hundreds of legitimate photographers. Gone are the days of walking up to a person and saying "I really like the way you look, could I shoot a few shots of you for my portfolio?" No now you have to have releases, and all that smuck, and even with that they suspect you got everything from some "fly by night" internet scheme, and that your real intention is to exploit them for amazing financial gain. You use...

This is an incomplete list of the music I would listen to. I will add those that I feel worthy as I think of them, or someone mentions them. There is no preference and no order, just music. The Steve Miller Group (aka Steve Miller) The Eagles The Firm Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd The Sex Pistols Planet Gong Patti Smithe Talking Heads Adam Ant The Guess Who Stone Temple Pilots R.E.M. Red Ryder Ugly Kid Joe Joan Jet Joni Mitchel Helen Ready George Throughogood Kiss Kansas The Kinks King Crimson Robbert Fripp Thomas Dolby Garbage Bush The Toadies Buddy Holly Frankie Goes to Hollywood U2 (although I hated Bono for a long time) Sonny and Cher (and Cher) Prince and the Revolution (as well as the Artist) DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (Will Smith) Tone Loc Selpatura Pantera Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne Ronnie James Dio Rainbow (Richie Blackmoore) Tim Buk Too Blur Skinny Puppy Butthole Surfers Pat Benetar Johnny Winter The Edgar Winter Group ZZ Top Molly Hatchet Mot ta Hoople David Bowie (Ziggy...