con-"artist"

This is a story you have to read to believe. A flickr contact I have who does illustration portraits for the Wall Street Journal has a thief and a copyright violator in Spain who is making nice a living out of her hard work among others.
Please read, especially all you artist out there:

http://hedcuts.blogspot.com/2009/10/jose-maria-cano-is-con-artist-he-uses.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noli/4009517833/

Gimme Back my Bullets (originally posted on my ArtNudes blog)

It was easier when I shot film, the quantity was less to choose from when building portfolios. I feel I spent the whole weekend re inventing and selecting my artistic nude and glamour portfolios with no results yet. I still am partial to my old film work but want to keep my selection fresh and up to date. Ugggh what to do, what to do?!

Since I went digital 4 or so years ago the number of images shot through the roof because of ease and instant results... with film, the quantity and quality ratio is alot different, at least for me. The attention to detail and composition "in the camera" was more critical and time consuming and lets not forget the processing fun, ohhh the wonderful smell of developer... I envy anyone who still have their darkrooms and film tanks, I miss mine!

Lions who changes colors.

Getting bored with my portfolios again but to damn lazy to spend time on them, ugggh!

On another note, I made a dicision to get a Macbook pro and a high end 24" iMac in the next two months... yes Rebecca and Vassanta and all my Mac friends, I'm coming over to the dark side since I am already on the so called dark side of the camera world (Nikons) haha...
I'm going to have to change my blog name now... ummm sooo, 15 month old and fast Dell XPS420 desktop and 24" monitor for sale!!!
;)

Happy long weekend everyone!

*the title is reference to the fact that I'm an impatient Leo right now, haha

"A bird in the hand is..."

Found this little fella on the deck... poor thing, I think it flew into the window, soooo tiny and barely weighs anything :(
Our backyard host about a dozen of the amazing flying wonders, and they are always entertaining. So hard to get photos of them they are soooo lightning fast

Birthdays and Assholes

Well my birthday yesterday has to go down as one of the most forgetable ever. I knew I should have requested it off from work.
It's never fun to have stressed out customers disrespect and verbally attack you for something beyond ones control. If it weren't for professionalism and me keeping my job, I... ehem, well I'll just say that I had to dig REAL deep to not let the true Leo in me come out.
Oh well, it's a new day now. ;)

Must be a left and right brain thing...

Holy cow, what a busy month and I am wayyyyy behind in blogging. I don't know where to start so I'll save the adventures for some other time.
Photoshoot after photoshot after photoshoot... then there is the day job filling the rest of the time.

When will the two flip flop financially has always been the question. The day job affords me (barely) to do the passion. It's illogical at this time of economic dispare that I even THINK about trying to go professional in photography, heck I've been doing this intently off and on for 31 years or so since before puberty ;)
I came to the conclusion that marketing and business are not in my DNA, hopefully I can marry that with my art someday soon, it's just a matter of one not taking time from the other.

Toys and Beauty

I am starting to like the apps for the iPhone. Granted it's not like the real thing but the old camera and toy camera filters on this software are simply too much fun. Best of all they are quick and just basically what they are, a toy!

This shot was a playful moment during our "artistic" nature session. The toy truck was sitting there when we arrived and thought ironically it would make for a great shot, so out came the iPhone with the toy camera app.

My visiting models; Rebecca and Vassanta.

btw, no photoshopping what so ever here, the sun glare is real and the filter is from the app. This is exactly how it came out of the camera (iPhone)... except for the watermark ;)