Art and inter-peace

http://vimeo.com/17344388

The Friendly Skies

Nikon killing local camera repair service and maybe their loyal followers

I have been a user of Nikon cameras and lenses for a long time . They have served me well and except for a few things that pains me , such as cheap cases , cheap neck straps and no image software support for the cameras but most of all I've been pretty happy with my system.

Until today . I dropped off a couple of lenses to be repaired by the same service I have used for years . One lens , the 17-35 mm needs a couple of parts that would normally cost about 5 dollars each. The job would be done in a week at a cost of 185.00 dollars.

There is just one problem .Nikon will not sell these parts to independent service centers any more. Worst yet after checking with Nikon they won't sell the parts I need even to a certified Nikon repair center. I have to ship the lenses to Nikon for repair and then wait for who knows how long to get everything back .Not to mention the high cost.

Nikon has turned into one the worst user friendly companies I have ever done business with. I was thinking about upgrading my D300 and D700 cameras , instead I'm thinking of just switching to Canon.

Way to go Nikon. 

El Nina

I was reading today that because of El Nina we will have a warm rainy summer and a warmer then normal winter next year. THANK GOD! 

thats just perfect for me . I can't wait to see conditions like below.

YES !!!!!!!!!!!

I finally finished my website , YES , it has been a long few weeks getting this up and running . Spent 27 hours the last two days just getting the slideshow to work, for some reason the photos are still degraded a little , i'm not sure why but that is another story for another day. i'm going to take the rest of this day OFF ! 


 http://michaelskeltonphotography.com/index.html

From Cape Cod Bay to the Outerbanks

A future project

in an earlier post I mentioned how much I love and admire the work of the Impressionist. Renoir , Degas  , Morisot , Picasso , Manet , Seurat , Van Gogh and the artist that really rocks my world , Claude Monet.

one of the projects planned for the future , if , I can never find the time is a series of photos that immulate the work of the impressionist .

maybe the first one below will be one of them .



" Time and consideration will gradually change the way of seeing and , in the end , we will achieve understanding "

Cezanne

Lightwritings and shadow boxing

2014 is turning out to be a very busy and important year for me. There are so many things going on all at the same time that it amazes me I'm able to get anything done.

one of those is my new website, which isn't finished but I have decided to upload today .hopefully it will motivate me to finish the rest before to long. I haven't worked on web pages in so long it was like learning all over again with all the web changes. It got to be such a struggle at one point that I was thinking of naming it , " Lightwritings and shadow boxing". 

I now need to write the text pages and come to a decision whether Im going to add galleries or a slideshow.One real problem is that while sorting photos for this project I keep coming across some from the past that I can't help but start working on. here is one from October 2007 . I think. 

below that is a link to my new site. hopefully it will be completed before to long. 

 http://michaelskeltonphotography.com/

Tree Exercise

overwhelmed

Im usually spending this time of year hibernating away until April or May. there are so many  projects going on at once that there just isn't time to be sitting around on my Levi's waiting until the spring. I already finished sorting all my RAW and PSD files and I'm now working on " keywording " them all and sorting them in selections by projects.

there is also my website that I'm working on but that is on the back burner while finishing the above project. my artist statements , organizing my future projects, updating and rewriting my notebooks. planing vacations, scouting photo shoots and having my equipment cleaned , repaired and readied for next month. 

all this is part of my hobby , I can only wonder how hard I would have to work if photography was my career path. I'd probably starve.