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Jon the Painter

January 27, 2009 – 7:33 pm

That sounds almost biblical! Monday morning I set off for North Walpole, NH to meet up with Jon McAuliffe. Jon’s an artist, managing to do portraits – of the painted variety not photographic variety – for a living. Jon also happened to be selling a Mac G5 that I was needing – one of those must have been fate connections that you can make on Craigs List where he had advertised the machine.

So off my dog and I went, across New hampshire into Vermont then back into New hampshire to meet one of the amazing people of New England. We took care of business ( the computer), then I dragged my gear into Jon’s studio to do some portraits of a portrait artist!

Fun doesn’t begin to describe the time – and while shooting I learned all kinds of interesting things…never thought about the fact that there are agents who specialize in political portraits, or that painted portraits are making a huge comeback as wedding gifts!

So here are some portraits of Jon – if you ever need a painted portrait, contact him through his website, http://www.mcauliffe-art.com/.

If, on the other hand, you need a photographic portrait, contact me! It’s easy, http://www.jayreiter.com or email jay@jayreiter.com.

By the way, he’s no slouch when it comes to fine art painting either – don’t know his rates but his work is definately worth hanging on your wall!

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The Old Jail

January 25, 2009 – 1:00 am

I am currently working on a personal project – photos of an old jail in Maine I have been fortunate enough to gain access to – and am combining the photos themselves with a technique call high dynamic range imaging ( HDR) which is a way to deal with large differences in the shadow and highlight areas. Depending on nhow the HDR work is done, the photographs can take on an otherworldly appearance. I’m new to the technique but the experimenting is very satisfying if somewhat frustrating – it seems like I cannot duplicate results or tones.

Here’s a few photos from the latest shoot – I think it was 12 degrees outside…that’s what the temperature was of the jail as well – can’t wait for Spring!

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TJ Wheeler

January 23, 2009 – 11:07 am

Amazing blues and jazz musician.

Musical activist.

Guitar and vocalist extraordinaire.

These are all words that have been used to describe New Hampshire artist TJ Wheeler.

After hearing him perform at The Cornerstone Montessori School (http://www.cornerstoneschool.org) in Stratham as part of a week-long residency working with students about the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King and other incredibly important issues – as well as a ton of music thrown in -  I’d have to call him just plain phenomenal! The school invited me to shoot the concert – here’s a selection of photos that just cannot do justice to the show he and the students put on. Click on a photo to see a larger version.[gallery]

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Recovery!

January 21, 2009 – 10:57 pm

Fedex brought me the nicest present today – my old harddrive and a spare I had sent in. On the spare was the recovery of my old. corrupted drive. Seems like everything but my applications was recovered – it will be a bit of time before I really know, but the best part was the folder of images from the jazz and tap odyssey were there! I honestly thought they were gone forever.

OK, lession I always preach has been learned – BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP – no, in a minute again and again.

To celebrate I’m posting a few images from the performance – there are still some shows coming up, I’ll post a schedule in the next few days.

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Bridal Show

January 11, 2009 – 8:29 pm

Today was the  bridal show in Portsmouth, NH sponsored by The Bay, 98.7 FM (http://www.987thebay.com) – and it was a testament to the hardy nature of Maine and New Hampshire brides ( and a few grooms too) – an overnight storm dumped a fresh half foot of snow on top of the ice-covered streets and walks. Undaunted, 200 brides – and assorted Moms, fiancees and other support friends showed up at the Frank Jones Center to view exhibits, lingere shows, and various vendors – including me.

Here’s a few photos from the day. Directly across from my booth was e-Clips Salon where I shot a few photos. If you want to check them out ( they do great work!) , they are on Islington Street in Portsmouth, NH. Give them a call at 603-427-5555.

[caption id="attachment_141" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="The team"]The team[/caption] [caption id="attachment_142" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Talking"]Talking[/caption] [caption id="attachment_143" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Makeover"]Makeover[/caption] [caption id="attachment_144" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="The e-Clips Salon crew starts in on Joanna"]The e-Clips Salon crew starts in on Joanna's hair.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_145" align="aligncenter" width="700" caption="Joanna is unaware of the changes happening to her hair as the hairdo continues."]Joanna is unaware of the changes happening to her hair as the hairdo continues.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_147" align="alignnone" width="700" caption="Joanna's mother, Linda, got into the act as well, getting the makeup treatment from the e-Clips Salon."]Joanna's mother Linda got the makeup treatment at e-Clips as well.[/caption]
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Drika portrait

January 4, 2009 – 9:55 pm

After dealing with a computer owner’s worst nightmare – a major league harddrive crash and corruption – I’m back to posting and writing.

Finding photographs from the various backups I have in place has been a bit like playing hide and seek – guess who was it!

I recovered a lot – and hopefully the rest will be recovered by a data recovery outfit in Cambridge, MA – I’ll let you know in another week or so.

Its funny, you never know what you have till its gone – silly little things like presets for printing and photoshop actions to speed up the workflow – back to reinventing the wheel.

Almost a year ago Drika Overton – one of the world’s great dancers – and I spent a sub zero afternoon along the coast of Maine shooting for a show she was putting together. I really didn’t get the concept then, but when I saw the show I was in total awe. Can you imagine a jazz group, a moderator reciting poetry and prose and tap dancers doing what I can only describe as modern jazz tap…if there is such a thing – all speaking to Rachel carson, the original environmentalist!

Still trying to recover the show photos – here’s the photo we came up for the poster.

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