Posted on July 11, 2001

• Hi folks. A couple of things to accounce. I won’t have a new upload for at least the next few days. I’ve had to take some personal time this past week and I haven’t been able to get any real work done. I have the next couple of days to work on artwork so I’ll try and get some stuff done before I have to start packing this weekend. I have to be out of my apartment by the 19th. I’ll be spending most of next week packing up and moving.

  I finally closed on my new house today. I’m off to pick up the keys momentarily. We’re so psyched to be moving! The only bad thing from all of this is that I will have to give up my cable modem. Apparently Cox doesn’t run cable out to where I live. I may have to investigate some sort of satillite option.

  My other announcement is that I finally have posters available for sale. I’ve put nine images up on Zazzle.com and if people like them I’ll add more.

  Zazzle seems to have been doing this for a while and it looks like they have figured out how to ship prints without damaging them. Please leave comments if you have any, or feel free to send them to me.

Posted on July 3, 2001

• Added “Ferrous” to the gallery today. Also, those of you looking for fireworks pictures should click here.

Posted on June 30, 2001

• I’m still playing around with Vue d’Esprit 4. My latest render is now up on the new images page. I call it “Cherry Garden” and I hope you like it. I’ve provided a “focussed” version in the PickleJar. If you have comments please send them my way.
• I never knew so much was involved in buying a house. Thank you to all the homeowners who sent me their advice! My loan agent informs me that we should close on the house sometime next week and we’ll start moving after immediately after that. I can’t wait to be out of this apartment!

Posted on June 27, 2001

• Last week I purchased a copy of Vue d’Esprit 4. For those of you not familiar with it, I used Vue d’Esprit 2 to create “Tropic of Capricorn“.

  The software arrived yesterday and I got to spend a few hours exploring the new features. It’s a great program and I always recommend it to everyone who asks me “what software should I use?”.

  Anyway, I made a few test renders. Jessie really liked one of them and she told me I should post it. OK. It’s called “Saguaro 2001” and you’ll find it on the new images page. The old “Saguaro” image is viewable in the 1998 gallery. I hope you like it!

Posted on June 23, 2001

• I added an updated version of “Stormfront” to the gallery. I used World Builder this time, whereas the old version was done using Bryce. Back when I lived in Iowa, one of my favorite things was to go out in the country and watch storms roll in. I re-did this image mostly out of nostalgia, as I haven’t seen a single decent thunderstorm since I moved to California. Let me know what you think.