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Jewelry lighting tutorial and printed work

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

My photographs of Carol Hamilton metal clay jewelry in Metal Clay Artist MagazineThe Metal Clay Artist Magazine showed up on my doorstep the other day with some photo work I did for Carol Hamilton, a metal clay artist. So the hamster in my noggin dusted off his sneakers and jumped on the Dual-o-matic Hamster Memory Bank Wheel.  I have been wanting to write a tutorial for a jewelry lighting setup for three months now.  Life just gets busy sometimes I guess.  So, this is where I put my foot down; I will not write another post until I post a jewelry lighting tutorial.

On another note,  it never gets old seeing tangible work whether it be prints or publications.  It gets the satisfaction bubbles flowing.

It reminds me that Ansel Adams had a three book series: The Camera, The Negative, and The Print.  If republished today, Adams would have to rename his books to The Camera, The Digital Negative, and The Internet. Oh how the digital age has torn the photographer away from printing!

Here is my call to action to anyone with a camera:

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JohnRobertPennington.com Abstract and Shenandoah series updates.

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Image from my abstract series.

Image from my abstract series.

Some of you may have noticed some changes to my website and for that, you receive a high five.  If you haven’t then you can check it out here.  My website and portfolio have needed face-lifts for some time now and over the next few weeks I will be updating it. So without further ado, I present the current and future modification.

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