Jeremiah Tolbert

I made a cou­ple of trips to Estes Park this past fall, but the pho­tog­ra­phy was not great. This is prob­a­bly the best elk shot I got this year. Next year, I need to pay bet­ter atten­tion and get up there when the aspens are turning.

I really need to go make more pho­tos soon. I’m out of pic­tures, and I’m sure as hell not blog­ging any­thing else lately. That’s okay, though, because I’ve had a lot of work going on, and that is a very good thing.

I’m plan­ning another redesign of this site to show­case what I’ve learned lately. I’m grow­ing in leaps and bounds as a designer, I think, but I’m also exper­i­ment­ing with some weird ideas too. Just don’t be shocked if you come to visit here in a few weeks and noth­ing looks the same…

One gripe to end things out for today– this cof­fee shop has tables that are too high for their chairs to type com­fort­ably and the chairs are not that com­fort­able either. But they used to pro­vide pil­lows to ele­vate you to a more com­fort­able typ­ing posi­tion. I come in today, and they have none–they’ve got­ten rid of them. Which I think marks this as the end of my time work­ing and drink­ing here. I’m not going to give myself carpal tun­nel just because I like the ambiance. Starry Night is at least a com­fort­able place to sit.

The desert is beau­ti­ful. Looking out the win­dow at all this snow, I miss it. Although right now, this desert is prob­a­bly cov­ered in snow too.

From some ruins in Mesa Verde National Park. This one block was the only one I could find adorned with any kind of pat­tern. I find some­thing very hyp­notic abouuu…ffffff

When we arrived at the Grand Canyon, I was very dis­ap­pointed with how hazy things were. But I try to be a lemons-​​to-​​lemonade kind of pho­tog­ra­pher, so I exper­i­mented with the con­di­tions. This has turned out to be one of my favorite black and white land­scapes I’ve taken.

I dug back into my archives and I dis­cov­ered that I still had pho­tos from the desert expe­di­tion last spring wait­ing to be uploaded and posted.

This is another study of the slot canyon called Lower Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona. It’s a remark­able site and one of my favorite places to pho­to­graph. So far…

This one is my least favorite of the bunch, but I’m out of pho­tos after this one–hope to get out and do some shoot­ing this after­noon so I can get back into a full and reg­u­lar sched­ule of pho­to­blog­ging. So here’s a cast-​​off to keep you occupied.

I must have taken hun­dreds of pho­tos of this par­tic­u­lar for­ma­tion. I’ve come at it from every angle, in many dif­fer­ent types of light. I’m not sure what I am search­ing for, and I’m not sure this is it, but I feel good about this one.

Now back to work I suppose.

Happy Monday to you all. Here’s another Thanksgiving Day pho­to­graph from the rocky wilds of Veauwoo. This is another HDR cre­ation, and one that takes a dif­fer­ent approach to the idea than I usu­ally take.

Ordinarily, HDR is good about evening out the expo­sure of a shot–bringing the under­ex­posed and exposed into the mid­dle, and as a side-​​effect it tends to enhance details, most notice­able in the sky. I think that some­times, the default HDR appli­ca­tion can result in a pretty flat image.

This one was my attempt to put some dark­ness back into the image, while try­ing to con­vey the cold dawn mood. I’m pretty sat­is­fied with the results, enough that I’ll be doing some prints of this series to try and sell in Wyoming.

In other news, my sched­ule is not booked up for this month or next month, and I’m tak­ing on all design work large and small. I’m work­ing on push­ing Clockpunk Studios to the next level, with new port­fo­lio addi­tions, a rate sheet page, and a new refer­ral sys­tem intended to reward my loyal friends and clients who rec­om­mend clients my way.

If any­one has any thoughts about how I should cre­ate my refer­ral sys­tem, please, share them in the com­ments. What kind of money would make you more likely to give out my infor­ma­tion when you hear some­one is look­ing for a designer? Some of you are amaz­ing about this already, but I’m will­ing to sweeten the pot…