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Photography
I began photography almost 30 years ago under the guidance of my father. I learned black and white darkroom and lab technique and bought my first Nikon. After ten years of the typical vacation images and friends, I became enamoured with impressionistic pictorialism and Cibachrome. I still study that form of photography and feature my work at www.lensart.com, but now use a Nikon D1x digital camera. My commercial site can be found at www.lensart.se. I am extremely comfortable and confident working with models, both experienced and novice, having photographed people professionally for 20 years. Music I taught myself to play the guitar when I was fourteen. That started an appreciation of sound and music that has carried through adulthood. I put myself through a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas in Austin by playing in bands, making effects devices for other musicians and running sound re-enforcement systems. After graduation, I used the money I made in engineering to purchase a 24-track recording studio and earned part of my living in sound recording. From the time I picked up a guitar I began to write music, and still do today. Here are a few examples of my music. "We Will Not Forget" was written to earn money for the investigation into the murder of four teenaged girls in Austin, Texas. It featured a very large choir, and was later re-recorded by well known musicians in the area. The culprits have now been brought to justice. "Head On", a pop rock tune, was entered in the 2002 Eurovision song contest. "Hollywood" was written as an demonstration of pop mixed with a hip-hop rap borrowed from Ja Rule. "Island Girl" was written for no particular reason at all, other than boredom one weekend. "Hot and Cold" was a group effort that I produced. It was done for a gospel singer, but aimed at a pop market some ten years ago. Finally, "Dream Lover" was 2003's melody festival failure. I currently do all of my sound and music work using Reason, MOTU Digital Performer, Cubase or Deck on a dual processor Mac G4. I'm available for 24-track location recording. Writing Early in my teens, I had some of my poetry published in the newspaper and was praised for my fiction. However, I chose to express my writing ability with song lyrics. Recently, I got back to fiction when I was asked to write an erotic coming of age film script for David Hamilton, "Water Dance" . Although the movie never received financing, it rekindled my interest in writing. Since then, I've written a first draft of a movie based on J. M. Barrie's work entitled "Katrina in Everland". I did a short book as well. I've done a few short screen plays also: "An American in Sweden" was done in Swedish and English. |
