Disengaging from being paid to work…

I'm retired...meaning not working for pay. But there's no way I can give up doing what I love most, which is shooting and producing videos. I've had to come up with a plan...a philosophy...so I can continue my love without compromising my ethics...and here it is, subject to revision. 1. If you have a budget …

Effort vs. Audience

Lived in news for nearly a lifetime and have now lived nearly a lifetime outside of news. Twenty eight years in and now nineteen years on the outside. But obviously I can never give up visual storytelling...and rather than an audience of thousands or tens of thousands, I now voluntarily produce stories for an online …

Surviving practical and paradigm shifts…

We all age. An unfortunate fact as you get older, although a positive one if you think you're too young. I'm way past stage one and working my way through being seventy plus. And to be honest, pretty much enjoying myself.And as I work through this stage of Senioritis I find myself wanting to clean …

Two down, two to go…

So Part Two of the Delta Series is now live on soundingsmag.net.  Take a gander and enjoy.

Still shooting…

It appears that I'll never be able to shake that camera out of my hand and life.  Fully retired since 2016.  No longer working paid gigs.  What's a person to do?  Why volunteer of course!  But not in the normal sense...I've tried a few gigs with different organizations and they never quite fit.  Or maybe …

Another one down…

...meaning one more thing off the bucket list.  For years, aye decades, I've wanted to serve on a jury.  Never quite understood the comments from folks who would do anything to avoid it.  Now I've spent plenty of time IN courthouses and IN courtrooms - just never doing the deed. I've gone to countless arraignments …

Upcoming workshops

A workshop is kinda like a class but shorter...and I've got two scheduled over the next few months through SICL/Stockton Institute for Continued Learning.  That's an all-volunteer group based out of my local community college - San Joaquin Delta College. So if you're in the area and want to pick up some pretty bare bones …

So we have leftover cardboard…

...from making the light box. What to do, what to do... How about making a handy-dandy two-sided reflector? What you'll need: Cardboard Scissors Tape Foil Glue White board or paper.  

Do-It-Yourself Light Box

Have an artist acquaintance who needs to take photos of his work (wire sculptures) for his website. We tried a jury rigged setup in his garage but the light (as expected) was too harsh. So I reverted back to my teaching days to make a home-made light box out of cardboard, tape, and white board. …

Buy my stuff…

I'll be working on some artist profiles over the next year with luck and need to move a few of them from wanting to sell their stuff to making the public wanting to purchase their vision. As with any professional they love doing what they do...and like all of us they'd love to make a …

The Whole Enchillada…

  Seems to me I've gone over an awful lot over the years about the knowledge and techniques required to be a decent VJ (or news cameraman). But one essential that has not been separated out and should have been is shooting. Now I'm not talking about the aesthetics, the art of shooting. Or the …