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This post is a bit late because I’ve been so very busy, but the Faces on the Wall exhibit was a success! I had over 80 portraits on display! Check out the video of the display just after the portraits were hung…

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Thanks to everyone who allowed me to take their photo. As I hope you can see, your photo added to the collective beauty of this project. 

Thanks to Stardust Video and Coffee for allowing me to shoot the portraits, then allowing me to display them. They even let me keep them on display through the weekend and invited me back to show them again. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to support another show.

Thanks to everyone who came to view the display, especially to those who came the opening night. You’ll never know how much I appreciated your support.

And thanks especially to Marcia and her son, Spencer, who helped me set up the show. I don’t think it would have looked as nice and I certainly would have been struggling to get everything hung had it not been for their help.

What’s Next? 

Well, it will be a while before I’m able to put on another show. I hope to be leaving the country soon, I’m in the process of joining the Peace Corps. I’ve been assigned to serve in Namibia and I leave in April, 2017. I will be blogging my experiences while there so I hope you all will check it from time to time. As you might expect, photos will be included.

Date: December 2, 2016

Time: 7pm – closing 

Where: Stardust Video & Coffee

stardustvideoandcoffee.wordpress.com

1842 East Winter Park Rd, Orlando, FL 32803 

(407) 623-3393

The result of a five month long project by photographer, Vern Seward, featuring over fifty portraits, all shot in Stardust, all shot using an iPhone.

Though I am getting some great portraits I’m beginning to wonder who else I can get to sit in front of my camera. There’s a bunch of folks who actually work for a living, and they do it during the time I normally set up at Star Dust. So, I’ve decided to open this project to allow appointments.

If you’d like to let me shoot you, but can’t get here on Mondays or Wednesday’s between 1pm and 5pm just drop me a line (vernseward@mac.com) and let me when you’re available.

There is one limitation, unfortunately. I can only shoot in the afternoon because of that’s when the light in Star Dust is best. Beyond that, it’s all good.

Also, if you’d like to get creative, I’m open to suggestions. I’ll shoot pretty anything you feel comfortable with.

So BRING IT!!

 

Vern

It’s only been two weeks since I started taking portraits at Star Dust Coffee for this project and I’ve already got some great shots. As you can see here.

While these and the others I’ve shot are good, I feel I’m only scratching the surface. I want more daring portraits, shots that really reveals the person in front of the camera.

Its only been two weeks and I’ll be taking portrait until the end of October. Hopefully I’ll get some even better shots.

If you want to sit I’ll take the shot. Almost anything goes.

 

O-Town is growing. I’m not just talking about urban sprawl, though there’s plenty of that. Over the years my adopted home has steadily morphed from quaint to urban to international, and now, world class.

Check out the downtown skyline. It’s not as crowded as San Francisco’s or as historic as New York’s, but it’s not just a hodgepodge of geometric shapes faces with glass and steel. Our skyline has color and, now, depth.

Check out the downtown nightlife. Fueled by nearby colleges, attractions, and beaches, on Friday nights our downtown starts hopping early and keeps on hopping until the well into Saturday morning. You’ve got just enough time to sleep it off and go again Saturday night. And it’s not just dance clubs, thought there are plenty, there’s a comedy club, art shows, upscale restaurants and fast food chains. You can buy a slice of really good pizza, 24hrs a day, seven days a week. You can take an art walk viewing sculptures and other works of art while strolling around a huge glowing fountain in Lake Eola. But what really put Orlando in the same league as Paris, London, New York and San Francisco is the presence of an icon of all great cities, a really good mime.

Yep! I said mime. Those silent performers who either fascinate or infuriate passersby in every major city in the world. Now Orlando has one, and a good one at that.

I imagine there are disciplines of miming. Marcel Marceau is likely the best known mime and he followed what I’ll call story pantomime where the mime uses gestures and exaggerated expressions to relay story to the audience. Our O-Town mime follows the statue pantomime discipline, the actor dresses and moves (or don’t move) to simulate a statue. You would think that’s easy, but keeping your body completely rigid for minutes at a time is hard work, and our mime was at it for 6 hours!

As with most street performers, our mime didn’t move for tips, and she appeared to do well. She was set up at the south-east area of Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. The spot was wisely chosen because it’s near a large and very active playground. Kids gravitate to mimes like little moths to a flame and she attracted them by the droves.

If you’re ever downtown O-Town stop by the lake and check her out. She worth the visit and the tip.

I was supposed to talk about getting up close and personal with my pix because I’d just got the new Olloclip Macro Lenses and I wanted to put them through a nice workout. I fully intended to have a nice cache of cool macros to show off.

That didn’t happen. What did happen was that I got busy doing other things and didn’t even have time to write a new post. Well, I’m making up for that now and while the photos I’m displaying aren’t macros I think they’re pretty good nonetheless.

 This shot was taken with the Olloclip 2x Tele Lens.

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