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I wondered if I could do anything in the arts until I discovered I seemed to have a natural talent for photography. John I certainly get this... Your talents in photography are stunning in my minds eye... Especially your surreal
Recent False Color Infrared renderings
https://www.behance.net/gallery/81406943/Recent-False-Color-Infrared-Photos And congratulations John on your Masters Degree at SFSU...
Albeit your time working as a darkroom technician is delightfully reflected in your image artistry on
https://www.behance.net/JohnSwanda where your creativity has indeed flourished.
Seems that some have an
intrinsic visual aptitude that comes from within...
That said, my background in music comes from a very early tender age singing choral music in my family's church choir... btw, young boys have an absolute pure and perfect soprano range with only a faintest hint of
'laryngeal' vibrato that taints many feminine voices in their soprano register... That is until boys' testosterone levels rise rapidly during puberty thus eliminating the aforementioned angelic ethereal tonality (Please listen to the Vienna Boys' Choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria. Likely the best boys' choirs in the world.)
a.k.a.
The voices of angels Listen carefully while they perform "
Laudate Dominum" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGL6nfT6kY8Now compare those amazing young boys to "
O Holy Night" by feminine sopranos and altos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfYKmJkxl0Ok, it's wasn't until I was 15 that I turned attention to acoustic six string... fell immediately in love with same. Did
Gigs with various other musicians during college though I had to work in other paradigms to pay the bills. In college I meet a gifted young art major from NYC who took me there to purchase my first SLR... LOVE! What an incredible tool! Did the Crafts Fair circuit with clones of Ansel Adams renderings but it was way too labor intensive...
Turned to portraiture and have never looked back.
btw I obtained a Cosmologist License so I could do makeup in commercial salons... Got heavy into bridal makeup artistry since it generated a huge revenue stream for me. Besides I loved "painting face" as it's known in the industry on these lovely ladies... Learned their language and hung out a Sephia and MAC... Trained and hired one of my agency represented colleagues as an assistant MUA so we could work Weddings Together... I did the Bride and the MOB while she did the Bridesmaids... we made far more in less than 2 hours than I ever did shooting a 10 hour wedding event!
Below is my real love... An acoustic six string... Also in frame is our Studio's MUA... now a represented Fashion Model by T.H.E. Agency (Washington DC). If anyone should need a totally gifted high end Fashion Model in the DC marketplace I highly recommend Samantha Miller
https://www.theartistagency.com/talent/samantha-miller?Outstanding
Many thanks John and to all others here... My
Best Wishes on your photographic journey
Cheers! Thomas
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