livingfiction

Or alive, as it may seem to those around here who remember me.  It's been years since I had any real activity here, and years since I've posted a journal.  Many of those I counted as friends here have gone, although a few still remain, and I'm delighted to observe their growth as artists. I feel as though my head has been in a fog for a time.  The art of my photography has been lost in the shuffle, as I've allowed my inspiration to go flat, and my camera to become a tool of industry rather than an instrument of creation in my hands.  It's taken some of my recent assignments to shake me into activity, and remind me why I first fell in love wi

I've had my D200 for a few hours now.  Certainly not long enough to put it through a serious battery of tests, but long enough to form an impression, and thus far it's a very positive one. The build is solid, it feels very good in my hand.  Very similar in appearance and feel to a D2x with the bottom cut off, which is splendid, because I love my D2x.  The camea is light without feeling flimsy.  It's more robust than the D70 but doesn't feel clunky. My first complaint was the garbage neck strap it shipped with.  It's too thin, and only has the leather in the middle like the D70.  I would have rather seen a strap similar to the professional m

Well, thanks to my partner ~kalani1980 (https://www.deviantart.com/kalani1980) LivingFiction Media http://www.LivingFictionMedia.com is doing well.  We finally have our site live.  Thre's still a lot to add, but it exists.  I've been coding it myself, so it's taking longer than I'd like, but in the long run it'll be better as I'll know how to change anything we want. I've been preoccupied with non-photographic pursuits lately and thus haven't been shooting like I'd like to.  Hopefully that will change now that I'm doing some work for the News Gazette and we're booking more weddings, in addition to which several calls have been coming in for family portraits.  Now that the lea