just a thought…

So, one of my pictures was published in the aforementioned Jackson24 book, and to my surprise, it was the one I had linked to in my previous post. However, they black-and-white-ified it, and in my personal opinion, made it look pretty bad (not to mention that it’s also printed across the inner-spine!). What really amazed me, is that they didn’t pick one of the other two pictures that actually had people in them; I even converted one into black and white for them! You’ll have to excuse me if I’m a little proud of the pictures I submitted to them, for I am. I realize that they are not “The Best Photographs Ever Captured,” but I also know enough about photography now to judge work that is outstanding, good, and poor. If quality was a deciding factor in choosing the pictures that were printed, I’d like to see the reasoning behind some of the photos I saw tonight.

I am human, and I am malcontent. There are some really decent photographs in the book though and I would encourage anyone who lives in Jackson, and likes photography, to grab a copy of it. I do however, wish this town had more of an interest in the arts, and encouraged its residents in their creativity.

I did notice, while flipping through the list of photographers in the back of the book, that several people (presumably staff members) had quite a few more photographs published than the “three per person” rule that us regular (sub-par?) citizens were held to. While I can’t say I’d blame them for taking this opportunity for self-promotion, I think they should have stuck to the rules themselves. There were more than enough good pictures that could have made it into the book in place of the six or twelve extra pictures of theirs that they deemed more important (like my other two. )

In other news, all of the submissions (close to 1,000) are on a DVD that is being bundled with the book, so hopefully someone will spot the others of mine that have been discarded, acknowledge my genius, and give me vasts sums of money.

To the people that submitted photographs and actually had them all printed, I congratulate you. To those of you who missed the book but are on the DVD, keep taking pictures, strive for improvement, and never give up.

Fixes websites, upgrades blogs and installs forums, fixes computers, writes crappy prose, writes crappy code and when he has some free time, takes some pictures. The last item being the real reason I wrote this post. I just got a call from the Jackson Citizen Patriot (our local newspaper) regarding the pictures that I submitted for the book they are compiling about my little town of Jackson Michigan. Now when I get excited, I have a tendency to not hear things correctly, or either hear things correctly and then doubt that they are true; but there is a release party for the book Jackson24 this Tuesday at the newspaper’s office, and I want to believe that I was told my pictures made it into the book. You can see one of the pictures here, and I might upload the other two once the book is released. For any of my friends outside of Jackson, just leave a comment if you’d like to see the others. I plan on attending this party, even though I’ll have to leave work an hour early; I’d like to meet some of the other photographers, and have a chance to sign autographs, kidding of course. I’ll let everyone know how the party goes, and I’ll be sure to confirm whether or not my pictures are in the book; because, aren’t you all dying to say that you know a famous photographer?

The title of this post is a lie. In my defense though, I can follow cooking directions, and I like to think of my living area in terms of ‘organized chaos.’

I’m back. Well, I have been back since Tuesday the 16th, but I’ve been busy catching up on homework and other things, not to mention taking a little bit of time to play Portal and Half Life 2: Episode 2.

Pictures are copying from my macbook to my desktop as I write this, and I will begin sorting through the 600+ images in order to upload the select few that make the grade. NaNoWriMo begins next month. I have an idea for a story that I would like to put down on paper, but it won’t be happening this November. Well, I might begin the process, but I believe it would be quite impossible to write 50,000 words while doing full-time work and school. I had a hard enough time meeting the daily word goal last year with only full-time work in my schedule. I guess we shall see.

The new Stanley Kubrick collection comes out next Tuesday, and I am hella excited. I owe Geoff for first introducing me to Mr. Kubrick’s films, and I cannot wait to see some of the others in this set.

I also need to get a copy of this book to see if any of my pictures made it in. I’m not saying that they will, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t, but I would really be interested in seeing the photos that made the cut, in the event that mine did not.

Alright, I need to do more homework, finish unpacking, clean my room and make a photo slide-show to present to my Church tomorrow.

That is what I am dubbing the storm that Michigan is presently involved with. Just a few weeks ago we had Ice-Rape 2007. I wonder how the weather will violate us next.

Yeah. I haven’t written anything. I = teh suck. However, Teen Girl Squad does not suck, and it makes me feel better about life, especially the new episode. www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html

Nurse 1:  Did your husband get that new Vista?

Nurse 2:  He did alright.

Nurse 1:  So did mine and he hates it.

Nurse 2:  Why’s that?

Nurse 1:  Well, he told Vista to use this one drive, and it went ahead and overwrote this other drive; he was pissed.  He can’t get on the internet either, because it crashed his driver.

People like this, have no right to mess around with operating systems.

Microsoft should put a warning on the box.  Or wrap their more technical software in idiot-proof packaging.  Think prescription medication.  “Warning, keep out of reach from idiots.  In fact, give this to your children, they will probably have a better idea of what to do with it.”

There should be a computer competency test of some kind before you are allowed to make the purchase of an operating system.  It would probably save Microsoft some money in their technical support areas.

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