sometimes when bored with what i am doing or not doing i click on my TED Talks link to get a different perspective on the world and who knows maybe learn something to boot. the video below is one of those such talks. its a cute animated tour not too heavy and not too lite. at the end there is a quote from the poet A.H. Auden, i think, that best describes how i feel sometimes.
Ted talk by john lloyd on a ‘tour of the invisible’
i do enjoy my abilities to create whether or not it’s for profit. i really don ‘t need the fame and fortune as i am blessed with a wonderful life now. it’s not always been that way but who has time to live in the past anymore. heck i can barely keep up with now. it’s taken me way too long to learn to share things without thinking about a reward, even if the reward is good karma.
so it is with this post of a couple of portraits i took of my neighbor, we’ve lived in the same hallway for i don’t know how many years now. he’s career has been in the theater as mine has only as an actor and singer. not always is age kind to us. richard and i have spoken about what we’ve been up to, he’s doing movie extra work and i asked him about pictures, actors always need pictures, he said he had some but………………
well why don’t you stop by and i’ll take a look says i. one day we hooked up and i saw what he was using and offered to do new ones for him. well months later he did ring my bell and this is the outcome below. i am not a headshot photographer but i’ve seen my share.
simple shot: Key 22″ beauty dish camera left. overhead soft box.
serious
maybe this is the one he’ll use, i don’t know and it’s so hard for him to judge
which i liked but his right ear lobe looks too big. the next one i asked him to rough up his hair and this is what we got
we both like this one but probably not too business like
but i think these are much better than the one he was using no matter his choice. better than the one below where everything was in sharp focus, i had to blur the background on this one.
oh well it’s nice to help other people. good luck richard lyle thomas
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