"About Jack" is
Under Construction.
The few comments that I've taken a moment to share are below.
Basically, I've been obsessed with photography since I was 12, which seems to be a common age to become "infected with photography".
My first career was with The Upjohn Company and that afforded me the opportunity to
travel the world
with my Hasselblad 500cm and a Wista 4x5 with Nikkor Lenses
and gather my initial set of images.
When I was 34 I started a computer graphics software development
company developing on the SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) computing platform.
This was a blending of photography and computer obsessions and the need to earn a living!
Applications went into 3-D Animation, Simulation, VR/AR and Machine Language Control
of high
resolution cameras
and film scanners used in the motion picture industry and computer graphics/photo industry.
I have historically shot 4x5 and Hasselblad, doing my own processing and scanning film on my Howtek 8,000 line drum scanner.
In October, 2007 With the introduction of the Phase One P45 digital back, I felt the digital age had finally matched, and frankly exceeded,
what I had been doing with 4x5 film scanned at 8,000 lines on my Howtek Hi Resolve Drum Scanner. Thus, since that time I've abandoned all film and gone completely digital.
As of today, Sept 14, 2011, I shoot the Hasselblad H4D-50MP with the 28mm, 80mm and 50-110 Zoom lenses. Progression was from the
H3DII-39MP camera with a stop to try out the Canon 5DMkII and their TS-E L lenses. Software used is Lightroom , Photomatrix II, Helicon Focus and Photoshop CS to "tune" my vision.
I've been experimenting with Panorama imaging as well as long term exposures. I've also been experimenting
with Helicon Focus in an
attempt to replicate the depth of field I could get with a 4x5 that is lacking with the Hasselblad. I plan on testing the Hasselblad HTS in the immediate future.
In May, 2008 my wife and I relocated our home from Atlantta, GA to Naples, FL.
The Sea is just too seductive to not be near, and I'm partial to sun over snow, traffic, and too many Lost Souls.
I'm happy to share anything I've learned with you should you choose to contact me.
For Folks Interested In My Specific Digital Technology Experience: 1983– January 2004 Southeastern Digital Images, Inc. & C/Food Software Atlanta, GA
PS: Please note that all images on the Shadowsdancing.com are displayed as only 72dpi and 8 bits deep. In reality, the actual images I print from are at least 300 dpi
and 16 bits, thus the printed image looks dramatically better than what is able to be displayed here on my web site.
Personal Writings:
No Mask, No Mirrors Move outside yourself. See Yourself without your self. Move through the Ether. Lose yourself to become Your Self. Peel off the facade that has masked your Soul from your Consciousness.
Know you are complete when You fade from the mirror's deceptive glare.
Abandon the Heaven the Earthly Souls long for. Embrace the Earth the Spirits of Heaven seek.
© Jack Brady, 2009, all rights reserved.
Peel Away Touch me. Penetrate the flesh to caress the Soul.
Reach further, chase away my loneliness and solitude.
Reach me. Vanquish the cold shroud, mask of flesh that shields me from you.
Only by your touch can the loneliness of mortal existence be dissolved.
Press further. Fear not the flame. Reach me. Let me comfort you. Reach me.
© Jack Brady, 2009, all rights reserved.
Tears My Soul touchs You, without arms. It feels You, without flesh, It sees You, without eyes, It weeps, without tears, It has no voice, yet it knows Your thoughts.
Why can’t You feel? Why can’t You see? Why can’t You hear?
Why don’t I know?
© Jack Brady,2009, all rights reserved.
Souls Heaven Doubt it not, where you stand is your Soul’s heaven It has sought to sense the Senses, to love Love
Yet you stand there seeking what your Soul has sought and already found,
Can you not sense, can you not smell, can you not feel?
What are you missing from the Journey?
What is missing from your Pathway?
You are on the path, seeking the Soul that is already with You.
Yet You are Lost?
© Jack Brady, 2009, all rights reserved.
Harms Way Sense the presence of Harm, can You?
It’s signature is Universal, it’s sigh and glance is seductive.
Harms Way is fluid.
It may be in the form of a curve on a being, or in the Pathway before you.
It may be in the slant of a smile or the piercing glare of the eye.
Yet it’s presence is unmistakable to those who care to open their Souls to it.
The issue is whether your Soul is wise enough to sense Harm’s presence.
© Jack Brady, March 23, 2003, all rights reserved.
Release With the bell came the words, “She’s dead”. With the bell came the sense, all’s finally well. With the bell came the prayer, may She rest in Hell! © Jack Brady, 2009, all rights reserved.
Arrogance They know not of before the Womb. They know not of after the Last Breath. Yet they have all the Answers of how I should live My Life. I walk through the crowds Unseen, Untouched, Unknown. I wander amongst Them, yet will never be one with Them.
© Jack Brady, 2009, all rights reserved |