Photo Mojo

Magic City Art Connection

The 25th anniversary of the Magic City Art Connection has come and gone and I am beat. Wonderwife & I are working on post-processing 3,000 photos (about 12GB) from all three days of the event. Posting here will be light; as you can imagine.

To the artists, musicians, dancers, chefs, Yahoo Search team and festival-goers: all of the images will be posted/hosted online soon. I will update this post here by way of notification and reply back to those who have sent me an email request. At that time, some will be on display here, and others will be on Flickr and SmugMug accounts. For those of you who had expressed a desire to purchase images (bless you), I will re-direct you to Smugmug for online purchases.

At this time, the Mojo is putting out a request for models. I want/need to boost up my portrait experience. There were plenty of beautiful people on display this weekend and I would like to capture more of you. Leave a comment here by clicking “Comments” , send me an email: mojodenbow [AT] gmail.com or call & leave a message to 205.588.6899.

**UPDATE** It is my pleasure to let you know that the Magic City Art Connection images are posted online. http://photo-mojo.smugmug.com Email me for the password if interested and I’ll get you access to both Saturday & Sunday events.

Check out this artistic & creative dance troupe, Bearing Light Butoh Dance Theatre Blind Faith

young Notinee Dancers, originally uploaded by Photo Mojo.

Dance performance at the Magic City Art Connection in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

Mayor Larry Langford, originally uploaded by Photo Mojo.

“It’s time to take back the city and repent of our sins. Evil will not prevail in my house”

Wonderwife surprised me by purchasing my new Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens. This is a very high quality lens that operates perfectly with my Nikon D200. If event or landscape photography are your passions, then this is the lens to get! The focus is completely sharp anywhere between 10-20mm and the best thing about it is the price, especially at Amazon where we saved $200 and no taxes/shipping.

It was too dark to try it outside but rest assured, I am taking it with me tomorrow and breaking this sucker in.

Thanks Jenny!

https://www.magiccityart.com/index.html

Once again it is time to head to downtown Birmingham to enjoy fine art, let the kids romp/explore, enjoy delectable food/wine and enjoy musical acts from almost every genre at the Art Connection.

Once again, I am shooting the event and will be there Friday afternoon, and most of Saturday/Sunday.

Video Promo:

If you plan on going, let me know and we’ll do a meetup

205.588.6899 or twitter me @mojodenbow

Upcoming.org: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/491924/

Here are a few photos and a link to Flickr photo stream of last year’s event.

http://flickr.com/photos/mojodenbowsphotostudio/sets/72157600152168363/

Corn & Butternut Squash Puree Goatee, originally uploaded by eagerlittlemind.

After 2.5 months of trying to get her interested in baby food, she has finally decided she likes it, as long as she can blow a raspberry as soon as the food touches her lips.

Innovation Depot, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.

Birmingham’s tech incubator and host to Barcamp Birmingham 2.0

Picture This is a place for anybody who wants to improve their photography skills while helping other people improve theirs.

PT is a friendly photography community that help each other create outstanding portfolios, take part in weekly project challenges, get meaningful feedback on our photos, share knowledge and inspire each other to produce better work.

• Picture This sets a weekly project
• You take the brief, your camera and interpret it however you want
• You upload your best shot
• The community gives you supportive comments on your work
• You can upload as many new versions as you like until you’re happy

This is not your full-fledged Photoshop No layers, no filters, no masks. Just your average online photo editor. I’ve heard someone say the average user would upload/edit their photos to be put on MySpace.

I do like the photo import from Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa feature. Helpful.

Here is a link to my Express account: http://photomojo.photoshop.com

Once Terry realized personal and professional were just words forming an artificial distinction, that taking a camera out at night and documenting his social life, introducing a point-and-shoot to not being a “hobby”, everything changed. The camera was no longer a camera. It was a passport and a license, a thing that empowered him to go and do.

-GQ April 2008 article on photographer Terry Richardson

dipstych daphne, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.

The girl makes some pretty funny faces

Fun At The Park, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.

Have fun this weekend and shoot lots of photos, people!

Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications that creatives can use to make art. Tools such as Phoenix, an image editor like Photoshop, or Peacock, a computer pattern generator. Let me tell you, these people are very creative and when they get their hands on these tools, they soar. Aviary is in limited Beta testing right now. I have 5 invitations to test this but I do not want to give them away to just anyone that sees this post and thinks it may be cool to look at it and not use it.

Uh-uh, internet, you are going to have to send me some of your previous photos/photoshop work either by email or link and I will donate these hard-to-get-invites. The five (5) lucky creatives will even have heir work hosted here with permission.

Trust me, it is worth it, look here:

Flickr: Discussing April Fools Magic City Photo Walk in Magic City

Yes, it is true, we ARE having another photowalk in the Birmingham area this Tuesday night. We’ll meet at 5:30PM in the Speakeasy downtown Birmingham. After a few drinks to um, enhance our shooting skills, we’ll hit the pavement and capture anything that strikes our fancy.

The Rules:
Who is invited: Anyone who wants to come.

Who is not invited: mean people.

Required equipment: a camera of any type.

Suggested equipment: tripod (for after it gets dark).

Required Photographic Skill Level: Any. The purpose of this event is to just have fun, meet some people, share tips and tricks, and just enjoy photography together.

So that’s it, come on and join us April 1st!

A few shots from the last photowalking event:

Prep Girl, originally uploaded by Photo-Mojo.

Like, totally Awesome…