Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?

deviantART

 
:iconblackroger:

*BlackRoger

The eye sees. The soul beholds.
Sign up to follow this artist's work
ProfileGalleryPrintsFavesJournal
About Me Premium Member General Digital Photographer Scott Popejoy41/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Months
10 Month Premium Membership Statistics 42 Deviations
189 Comments
506 Pageviews

Portraits


Flash Player 8 is required to view SitBack. Get the latest version of Flash Player.
Browse Folder

Purity and Peace

Mon Nov 23, 2009, 7:23 PM
I spent three years of my childhood in Door County, Wisconsin...the most beautiful place I have lived and home to my fondest memories.

My brother and I used to bike to Potawatomi State Park from Sturgeon Bay with some school-friends on a Saturday afternoon, fish, throw rocks in the Bay, drop pennies off the fire tower (in defiance of the rules), and eat peanut-butter sandwiches. Those were the days!

I hadn't been back to visit in 20 years when I took a much needed life-vacation...one of those where you just vanish for four days and don't tell a soul. The beauty and simplicity I'd forgotten over the years overwhelmed, and calmed me...

The Birch trees. I'd forgotten about the Birch! Who could forget the Birch? So pure, and serenely happy amid the greenness of life...even in the waning summer?

This image came home in my camera.
The peace came home in my soul.



No Comments | Previous Journal Entries
  • Mood: Peaceful
  • Listening to: silence

deviantID

I've recently taken a renewed interest in photography, one of my most enjoyable hobbies of my teenage years. And not just capturing a technically perfect photograph, but the soul of the moment.

I cut my teeth on a 35mm Pentax K-1000, and now go armed with a 6Mp Lumix DMC-TZ1. I hope to add a quality DSLR to the arsenal, but I find that even a cellphone serves the latter purpose well.

I currently live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and practice my skills in nature, at concerts, and on a few gracious friends.

At some point I'd love to get some formal training. And it would be nice to sell some prints. But I'm not so interested in comercial photography as I am in discovering and expressing a little of my soul, and the soul of those around me.

The best to all of us in this endeavor!

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Central Iowa
  • Interests: Music, Photography, Dance
  • Favourite movie: The Butterfly Effect
  • Favourite band or musician: The Airborne Toxic Event, Leonard Cohen
  • Favourite genre of music: Alternative
  • Favourite artist: Renoir, Monet, Salvador Dali
  • Favourite poet or writer: Camus
  • Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston
  • Favourite style of art: Impressionism
  • Favourite game: Chess!
  • Personal Quote: Anything worth doing is worth doing right!
  • Tools of the Trade: Panasonic DMC-TZ1 for starters. Looking into Cannon or Nikon DSLRs

Wishlist

by =zardo
Browse Wishlist

Comments


:iconsimplistic-illusion:
*Simplistic-Illusion 4 days 16 hours ago
You have a beautiful gallery. Thank you for faving and watching mine.

--
"Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
— e.e. cummings
:iconziyafot1:
*ziyafot1 6 days 9 hours ago
thank you so much for the :+fav: and :+devwatch: ;)
:iconsimo2409:
Mood: Joy =simo2409 Nov 21, 2009, 1:57:02 AM
Thanks for your :+fav: :)

--
Hi, i'm Simone ... give to my gallery a try :)
:iconziyafot1:
*ziyafot1 Nov 20, 2009, 3:04:23 PM
Thank you so much for the :+fav: ;)
:iconartisalma:
=artisalma Nov 16, 2009, 11:13:59 PM
thank you for the fav

--
we know what we are
but know not what we may be
William Shakespeare
:icondementeddb:
~DementedDB Nov 16, 2009, 3:28:07 PM
Thank you so much for the fave!!
:heart:

--
~*Don't tell me not to fly--
I've simply got to!
If someone takes a spill,
Its me and not you.
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!*~

<3 Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand
:iconblackroger:
*BlackRoger Nov 16, 2009, 3:46:34 PM
YW! Very nice work all around!

--
~The eye sees. The soul beholds...
:icondementeddb:
~DementedDB Nov 16, 2009, 3:43:36 PM
and thank you for the watch!!

--
~*Don't tell me not to fly--
I've simply got to!
If someone takes a spill,
Its me and not you.
Who told you you're allowed
To rain on my parade!*~

<3 Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand
:iconarvalus:
~Arvalus Nov 16, 2009, 3:26:57 PM
Thanks for the watch :)
:iconblackroger:
*BlackRoger Nov 16, 2009, 3:39:20 PM
YW! Incredible modeling series and street photos!

--
~The eye sees. The soul beholds...
:iconblackroger:
*BlackRoger Nov 16, 2009, 3:39:58 PM
YW! Anyone that shoots the Great Lakes shoreline gets kudos in my book! ;)

--
~The eye sees. The soul beholds...
:iconafamilyaffair:
~AFamilyAffair Nov 16, 2009, 3:48:21 PM
thanx, but in all honesty, it's so beautiful all you need to do is point and shoot! it changes every day and there's no way to get a bad shot! lol!
:iconnicolebauser:
~NicoleBauser Nov 16, 2009, 9:51:06 AM
wow, thank you for the watch :)
:iconnicolebauser:
~NicoleBauser Nov 16, 2009, 9:42:49 AM
Thank you very much for the fav :)
:iconblackroger:
*BlackRoger Nov 16, 2009, 9:51:39 AM
YW! That's a very nice water shot...as are the rest. Have to check out more later!

--
~The eye sees. The soul beholds...
:iconnicolebauser:
Mood: Joy ~NicoleBauser Nov 16, 2009, 9:52:51 AM
Thank you, I added you to my watch as well and I am going to check out your gallery :)
:iconblackroger:
*BlackRoger Nov 16, 2009, 10:02:34 AM
Honored! I don't post much as my camera's *quite* not up to the shots I like to take, but for now I'm watching a lot of great photographers for inspiration and tips!

--
~The eye sees. The soul beholds...
Previous Page12345...Next Page

Site Map