Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

New Roundbottom: An End to the War and a Friendship

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Good morn­ing, ladies and gents.  It’s that time again.  A new post has gone live over at the Informatitron.  It seems the doc­tor and friends have put an end to the Bird Queen-​​Boggart ordeal, but not with­out a price.   This post sur­prised me, as it runs about the length of a tra­di­tional short story. I never intended to be so… wordy on the site, but I sup­pose you can take the nerd out of the writ­ing, but you can’t take the writ­ing out of the nerd.

More good things com­ing up on Roundbottom this month.  The more mem­ber­ships I sell, the more I can pour into hir­ing mod­els and doing more elab­o­rate photo manip­u­la­tions.  So please, if you enjoy read­ing Dr. Roundbottom and lis­ten­ing to his exploits each week, con­sider buy­ing a membership.

Are there images that you want that are lim­ited edi­tions, but you don’t want to drop so much cash on a print?  I’m con­sid­er­ing drop­ping the lim­ited prints entirely at the moment.  There’s been lit­tle inter­est in them, and while I was really hop­ing that they would pro­vide the boost I need to see this project through into the com­ing months, I sup­pose I could just sell every­thing as a mem­ber­ship kit option or stand­alone small, cheap, unlim­ited prints. Anyway, enough about that.  Coming up shortly, a photo of the day.

Photo: RMNP Elk

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It’s the rut­ting sea­son in Colorado and the bull Elks are out doing their thing. Last Friday, after some seri­ous hours at the day job, I got the day off and took advan­tage of the week day low-​​traffic to head to Estes Park and to Rocky Mountain National Park to see what kind of pho­tog­ra­phy I could take.

It turns out that even with my okay wildlife lens, most of the elk were too far away for me to get the full frame shots that I would have liked to have taken. But then, I saw quite a few pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phers in the park with their $10,000+ lenses and I fig­ure, I’ll just take what I can take and maybe my stuff won’t have that tra­di­tional appeal, but the limit may make me more cre­ative. So I got a cou­ple of nice shots like this one. I was really hob­bled by for­get­ting my 2 GB CF card, so I didn’t want to take a shot unless I was sure it would turn out great.

Photo: RMNP Elk

Roundbottom Foundation Memberships Now Available

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The kits are ready to go.  Head over to the Foundation page to learn more.  They include every­thing I men­tioned before:  8“x10” print, selected from one of four, a let­ter of thanks,  and a  per­son­ally addressed mem­ber­ship card in a wax-​​sealed enve­lope.  The let­ter includes a pass­word to get you into the Members Only area of the site, which has behind-​​the-​​scenes tuto­ri­als, essays, record­ings, and more.The cost?  Only $35.

An offi­cial announce­ment will go on the Clockpunk site with this week’s pod­cast episode, but I’m mak­ing a spe­cial announce­ment here to my friends.  Who will be mem­ber #00001?

Limited edi­tion prints of all other images are going on sale this week as well.   Prints will be 16“x20”, lim­ited to edi­tions of 10, and will cost $125.  These prints include a free mem­ber­ship.   So stay tuned for an announce­ment for how you can order those if you so desire.

The Roundbottom Foundation mem­ber­ship makes a great hol­i­day gift for the steam­punk fam­ily mem­ber!  Buy a cou­ple of dozen and your whole fam­ily will be set.  It’s the gift that keeps on giv­ing all year long!

OOooh Ahhhh!

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I just received two 16x20 test prints from my printer, one of the Steam Rat, and one of the Bird Queen.

I take a pretty darn nice look­ing pho­to­graph if I do say so myself.

These things are gor­geous.  I had them printed on pearl, and they are super glossy. I pre­fer matte, but the gloss some­how does lend a more pro­fes­sional feel.   When I do my print runs for lim­ited edi­tions, I think I’ll stick with the Luster paper over the Pearl.  Shiny is not right for steam­punk prints.

Photo: Spider Mama

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I took a few pho­tos while out in Kansas. This is one of them.

Photo: Spider Mama

Roundbottom Foundation Membership Packets

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Yeah, I know you’re prob­a­bly tired of hear­ing about all this, but it’s all I am work­ing on right now.  You def­i­nitely don’t want to read about my work or pol­i­tics.  Anyway, I’m work­ing on the Roundbottom Foundation mem­ber­ship pack­ets.   So far these pack­ets include:

  • one 8x10 print of either the Curious Mycoid, Another Clockwork Curiosity, The Common Maned Sprite, or Regarding Moth Pixies and Browncaps.  These prints will printed on  Fuji Luster Pro paper.  be stamped on the back with the offi­cial City seal and will be signed by Dr. Roundbottom.
  • A spe­cially addressed for­mal mem­ber­ship card with your steam­punk name on it. Or your real one, what­ever you want.
  • A let­ter of thanks from Miss Watkins
  • Access to the members-​​only area of the site, which pro­vides a behind-​​the-​​scenes look at how Dr. Roundbottom’s pho­tonic cap­tures and pod­casts are made.  Will include hilar­i­ous out­takes from pod­cast ses­sions and dis­carded pho­tos.  Basically, fun stuff.  This area will update monthly.

All of this for a $35 “dona­tion”*.   All images not listed above will sell in lim­ited edi­tions of 50 in a 16x20 size for $125 per print.  These will signed and stamped as well.  If you buy a larger print, you will receive a free mem­ber­ship in the Roundbottom Society.

I’d be more than happy to hear sug­ges­tions for other mem­ber­ship perks I should give.  Leave me a note in the com­ments.  I still need to make the mem­ber­ship cards.

So there are the near final­ized finan­cials behind the Clockpunk project.  I won’t even go into how much bloody money I’ve spent on this thing.  It will take a very long time to recoup my expenses, if I ever do.  I’m doing this because I really enjoy it.  Money from mem­ber­ships will mostly be turned right back into props, mate­ri­als, and photo equipement.   Maybe I’ll sell a bunch of lim­it­eds and I can rent that stu­dio space down town.  I really need an indoor place to shoot soon with win­ter approaching.

*Not really a dona­tion.  We’re not non-​​profit.  Not that we’re actu­ally mak­ing a profit, mind you…

New Roundbottom: Noble Faery Games

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There is a new Roundbottom pod­cast live on the Clockpunk​.com web­site.  This week, the Doctor is away and Miss Watkins is in charge.  There’s a mys­tery in the record­ing that needs to be solved.  Can you puz­zle it out?

I’d write more, but I’m in a world of hurt at the day job.  I put in about 8 hours yes­ter­day and I see work­ing until I drop in my future today.

New Roundbottom: The Bird Queen

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It’s Monday, and that means there is a new round­bot­tom image and report for you to check out!  This week, the doc­tor encoun­ters the mys­te­ri­ous Bird Queen.  He finds him­self not much closer to resolv­ing the con­flict between the birds and the bog­garts, and he needs your advice.  Check it out!

A Request for Clockpunk Suggestions

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Hello all.  As you may know, I’ve been updat­ing Dr. Roundbottom on a weekly basis for some time now. (If you missed the new post yes­ter­day, be sure to go check it out).   The site seems to have matured itself and as far as I can tell is mostly sta­ble.  I have the most awe­some com­menters in the world. I don’t even know who half of them are.  Keep it up, mys­tery commenters.

My ques­tion is this:  what other fea­tures could I add to the site?  Any basic func­tion­al­ity that you would like to see that is missing?

If you have sug­ges­tions for things you want to see/​read more con­tent about, please share that with me too.

I am mak­ing this my sole project out­side of my day job (and a cou­ple of clients I sup­port)  for the forsee­able future.  So any sug­ges­tions on things I could add or do dif­fer­ently would be appreciated.

It’s Monday! New Roundbottom! Boggarts!

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This week kicks off a new multi-​​part sto­ry­line over at Clockpunk​.com.  It appears that Dr. Roundbottom has got­ten him­self into the mid­dle of some strange hap­pen­ings and a war may soon be break­ing out in the Park!

Primitive BoggartIn this week’s mis­sive, the Doctor relates a dis­cov­ery he doesn’t seem too keen on, which is that a species of faery called the bog­gart pre­vi­ously though to have an ani­mal intel­li­gence, can actu­ally speak and use tools.  He has a very inter­est­ing cap­ture doc­u­ment­ing the tool use at least, and it appears that he’s ende­vour­ing to make a record­ing of the lit­tle crea­tures for next week’s Nature Sounds to prove to the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity that they have the capac­ity for speech.

So check it out, tell your friends!  Spread the word!

I took a bloody fan­tas­tic steam­punk shoot last night which I will most likely be show­ing you bits of pieces of this week.  Unfortunately, Daily Photo is now dead until spring.   I’ll post pho­tos now and then, but they won’t be com­ing daily until the shoot­ing sea­son starts up again.