Photo series of my bottle collection.

Design Contest

Hey fellow bloggers! I recently found this awesome website called Designcontest.com. 


If you are a designer looking to telecommunicate and find clients, this site is for you! 


If you are not a designer but have a business in need of design services, this site allows you to join as a contest holder in which you can assign the price range you are willing to pay and the prospects of your idea. 


Design contest is a great place for designers and clients to build reputable relationships while helping artists build their portfolio. 

Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to realize that living people were responsible for some of the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a clerk in the local court.


Like every aspiring artist of the day, Mucha ended up in Paris in 1887. He was a little older than many of his fellows, but he had come further in both distance and time. A chance encounter in Moravia had provided him with a patron who was willing to fund his studies. After two years in Munich and some time devoted to painting murals for his patron, he was sent off to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian. After two years the supporting funds were discontinued and Alphonse Mucha was set adrift in a Paris that he would soon transform. At the time, however, he was a 27-year-old with no money and no prospects - the proverbial starving artist.


Copyright © 2006, Mucha Trust &  © 1999 by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr

Lithography

Canon G10

If anyone is looking for a mildly cheap and reliable digital camera, I would most definitely recommend the Canon G10. I own one and I am pleased with the results. It has the portability of a point-and-shoot mixed with the reliability of a (more expensive) DSLR! 

"The G10 is the third incarnation of Canon’s flagship ‘prosumer’ compact since the G series was reinvented with the G7 in 2006. Announced two years after the G6, the G7 caused quite a buzz; partly because everyone had presumed the budget SLR had killed off this sector of the market, partly because it lacked several of what had become G series trademarks (fast lens, tilting screen, raw mode, secondary LCD panel), and it would be fair to say the response was ‘mixed’. The G9 went some way towards placating the critics, reintroducing raw mode and improving handling, but it still suffered from the fundamental problem that the sensor inside couldn’t deliver on what the fantastic camera promised on the outside.

When we reviewed the G9 last year, we praised it for the styling, handling and build and for its excellent output at low ISO settings. The G10 builds on this by adding handling and control refinements, improving the LCD resolution, and, most importantly, adding a wider lens starting at 28mm (equiv.). It also retains the rangefinder styling and solid build quality, and reduces the amount of silver accents on the camera. All the external controls have been carried over, and a new one has been added (a very useful exposure compensation dial). The things we criticized the G9 for (the unneeded increase in resolution, and the slow-ish lens) have not been addressed. Instead Canon has increased the resolution for the sensor even more, to 14.7 megapixels. The updated lens, though wider at the wide end, is also shorter at the long end, and has less zoom range overall. The speed of the lens is again almost the same F2.8-4.5, though the wider lens does retain the G9’s relatively compact dimensions. The price remains at around $500." 

Illustration before and after

                                                      Before:

                                                      After:

                                                      Drawing by Dave Grice

Macro Boredom

Iv'e been into photography for most of my life. I guess it really started showing through in my high school photography class. Im not sure what that has to do with Macro photography but, oh well. Nonetheless, Macro photography has always sparked my attention.

This set of photos is from one day at a buddy's house when we were just sitting around in utter boredom. To pass the time, I whipped out my digital camera and nestled uncomfortably close to my friends' faces. Notice: These were shot without a tripod.

Stranger Danger

Usually its more acceptable to photograph people that you know. However, sometimes its just as entertaining to take some candids of random folks. Here is a few for you to enjoy! 

                                                         

                                                    Stranger at Las vegas airport.

                                                                   
                                                          More Strangers

Who is this?