Blues Photography

 
Well the title's not exactly right - it's more like I've got the blues about photography. See I LOVE my Nikon D80, but as with all technology sometimes things go wrong. I'd been noticing a couple of specs or dots from dust on my beloved the last few times I've been taking photos. Nothing like a blue sky to show off dust spots on the sensor! Anyway, after a decent attempt to clean the camera myself - I broke down and decided to take my camera in for a cleaning and servicing on some of the dead pixels (I only noticed THOSE after I was scrutinizing my pictures at high magnification - looking for dust spots. So now I'm in "No Camera Hell". I have to wait the quoted 7-10 business days for them to service my camera. That may not seem like much, but for someone who likes to take their camera along to work - "just in case" that 2 1/2 weeks seems like a LONG time to be without my camera.

We'll see how well I manage without my camera. In the mean time, since my acting seems to be going in slo-mo right now, I'm thinking more about photography. I got some inspiration from another blog which got me thinking about taking photographs of all the people I love (hmm, don't I do that anyway???). But specifically these photographs should embody or represent What that person means to me - kind of a capture their spirit photo. So I'm going to be going through some of my old photos and seeing if I have any to post and of course once I have my camera back, I'll be on a mission.

A Note or two about Notes!

 
Well, it's been a very sporadic couple of months for me regarding my blog posting for various reasons we won't go into here, but those of you who check back regularly are GREATLY appreciated. I do however have some Notable Notes Worth Noting (very blatant nod to my role as Balthasar last year in Much Ado About Nothing). I've been cast as a drunkard in a new feature film called "Notes from the New World" from VM Productions which is written, Directed and Produced by Vitaly Sumin! It's based on a book called "Notes from the Underground" by a Russian author named Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Additionally, I've also been hired to be a 'behind the scenes' still photographer for the film as well! This is so exciting for me because I am getting to work on two of my great passions in the same project - Acting and photography! I have to give a shout out to Devorah Dishigton who I first met while working on The Smelly Janitor with Trent. Devorah, who's also in the film, suggested that I come and audition for "Notes". They had a few minor speaking roles available. Well, I did the audition and got one of the roles. Big Thank you to Devorah!!!

I'll have more to say about the film as it progresses. For now I'm mostly acting as a photographer during our weekly rehearsals. I've taken a few of the actors photographs found on the film's website, and I'm sure I'll be contributing more as things progress. Filming will start sometime in April. I'm very excited and honored to be a part of the film.

--By Rex Hoss