Final Post Here...

i've really liked using blogger, but for various reasons i need to move my blogging onto my own domain at silverystars.com. i hope that this will both help to drive traffic to my site and allow me to have one unified place to post my thoughts.

so, if you've bookmarked this blog, please update you RSS feeds and bookmarks to the following address:

URL: www.silverystars.com/somanystars
RSS: feed://www.silverystars.com/somanystars/?feed=rss2

thanks,
scott

Correct Exposure

so i ordered the first copies of in the still air and will start selling signed and numbered copies immediately. i've taken an advertisement out in Black and White magazine to help promote the sales of this limited edition book. there will only be 50 copies ever printed. Black and White Magazine was kind enough to give me some space on their website to promote my work. along with the exposure advertisement that is in the October issue, i hope that this will help to make people aware of my work and possibly peak some interest in the book. you can see the gallery at BW mag here:

Black and White Magazine's Advertiser Galleries

several collectors have already ordered their own copy of the book and i suspect when the October issue hits the news stands, the remaining copies will go fast. if anyone would like to order a copy, i have a few in stock right now and i can ship them out almost immediately! details here:

silverystars.com

all the best,
scott

smilies needed

i've got to go help a friend today. his father passed away over the weekend and the funeral is today. he called me yesterday, very emotional and asked if i could help with the memorial service and funeral by capturing some video of the event. seems morbid in a way, but really there are so many people coming from overseas, they feel it is best to somehow capture this. i proposed the idea of filming some people who might be able to tell fond remembrances of his father and i just know that its going to be a rough day emotionally.

so if you know me well enough to have my number, text me a couple smilies if you're thinking about me through the day.

thanks,
scott

snap back to reality

so, i finally have my work hanging for all the public to see. the results of this weekend showed that i can organize and pull off a successful multi-artist gallery show. i just hope that my measure of success is the same as everyone else's. honestly, i don't really care if my works sell or not, its really just the thrill of having my work on public display for everyone to enjoy that brings me the biggest sense of accomplishment. photo at right © billy monday.

my parents attended, which made me very proud. i got to introduce them to so many of my friends which is a rarity since these circles don't often collide. i often worry that my parents might think i'm not happy because i'm not married, so having them see that i experience love when surrounded by my friends is very satisfying to me.

i also feel that, slowly, things are returning to a bit of normalcy. i've got a shoot coming up this weekend with a woman who is coming from out of town to work with me. i had the chance to go out yesterday afternoon and scout locations that we'll use for some of our shoots and now have visuals and spaces on which to anchor the formations of my creative visions for our collaboration together. i knocked out a corporate photography project that i shot last week and should be able to mail that off this morning as well.

so, yeah... things are getting back to normal, things are getting done, and there's a whole new weekend of creativity to look forward to coming up in just a few days.

oh yeah, and i even managed to convince stephanie anne and rael, who came down from new york city to see the show, to pose a little bit for me before they had to go back. as if it was ever difficult to talk them into it! interestingly enough, they hadn't met before saturday night but seemed to become fast friends over the course of the day spent together. i was amazed at how they worked so well together in the studio.


enjoy,
scott

the illuminated figure

i am very pleased to announce details of my first gallery show. i've worked really hard to find a venue that i thought would represent not only my work very well, but also the works for four of my dear friends and fellow photographers. if you live in the area, please come out to support the arts!

thanks,
scott

The Illuminated Figure
a gallery show featuring works by 5 contemporary photographers:

Bill Earle - showing selected works representing expression, emotion, beauty and passion.
Billy Monday - Frederick, MD based photographer showing work from his 2007-08 series Mannequins
Marcus Ranum - showing works from his series, Women on Pedestals
Scott Nichol - showing selected works from the summer 2007 series in the still air
Ken Volpe - showing works from his series, Rope Tricks

Artist's Reception: June 14, 2008, 8pm
Art-n-Soul Studios
516 West Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA
http://www.silverystars.com/photo/illuminated.html

art in real-time

so, we live in an interesting time. its bad enough that we blog in real time about events from hotel wifi connections while we nurse the sunburn and mosquito bites from earlier in the day. but when you're teasing your contemporaries with incredible shots like the one of Zinn here, its just plain abuse of technology!

zinn and i started planning this trip down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina a couple months ago and i really wanted another photographer, billy monday to come along with us. the chance to collaborate with other photographers always proves to be inspirational. and billy probably would have brought another model with him that i was really looking forward to working with. but alas, for various different reasons, billy couldn't make it and i was disappointed, to say the least.

however he asked us to keep him informed on how things were going and said he would have to experience the trip vicariously through us. so, we continued to goad him to come down by sending him shots like this:

his only response was, "Man, that hurts...those shots are beautiful! Have a beer for me, but don't stay up too late..." we laughed with the delight of getting such great stuff and rubbing it in without him. but the goal was really to encourage him to drop everything and join us, regardless of the obstacles. these photos are obviously fully edited on my laptop while sitting in our cozy efficiency in Cape Hatteras, NC. its a wonderful place, really, to shoot art nudes. you can find seclusion if you really look for it. and surrounding yourself with new environments really keeps the creativity flowing.

but the real-time feed back provided by all this technology is amazing. we're posting completely edited photos of our work here to community sites before we even get back. getting the satisfaction of sharing the amazing adventures we're on long before we even get back home. so, we'll see you all when we get back home, but you'll already know where we've been.

enjoy,
scott

Photographer's Forum Magazine!

yesterday when i left my alter-ego-day-job thingy, i checked my phone to see if there were any new emails. there was a new one from Julie at Serbin Communications. they are the publishers of a few, small, niche magazines, one of which i like in particular called Photographer's Forum its a magazine focused on photographers with layouts that showcase their works. the layouts are simple and uncluttered with single images per page. they don't talk about gear or software, they just present photos and allow their readers to absorb them as art.

well, a couple weeks ago i barely squeezed in to make the deadline for submissions for their portfolio issue where they feature several photographers and their portfolios. the email i received yesterday was to tell me that, "We have completed our annual portfolio review. After considering many excellent submissions, we are pleased to inform you that we have decided to publish your work in the portfolio section of the February 2009 issue of Photographer’s Forum magazine."

wow. i mean, WOW!! i was floored. i let out a hoot and yelled, "fuckin-a yeah!" then i realized i didn't believe it and had to re-read the email again to make sure i'd really read it right. it was true, but then i realized that i really shouldn't be driving and trying to read emails. i put down the phone, picked it back up again and called stephanie, candace, ken (voice mail), and olaf to share this great news.

i'm excited, really, for the models who will also have their works published. its not clear which photos they will use, i think i submitted 15. but hopefully they will tell me soon i will pass the information along here.

this is exciting!