The Fezziwig News by Stu Jenks

All 8 1/2" x 11" A/P archival pigment prints by Stu Jenks for $25, shipping, handling and taxes included...

Image: "Queen Esther Baptist Church, Lancaster, Virginia" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks (Just down River Road from Victoria's house. Love that luscious red carpet. And for you nocturnals out there, it was handheld. Rare for me.)

In this time of making photos on iPhones and Macbook Pros and only looking on screens, I forget I'm a old-school guy. I make a 8 1/2 x 11 work print on archival paper of EVERY image I make. EVERY one. It's the only way, for me, to accurately check for color shift, density, composition, etc. I really like my iPad screen but it's no way to make a good print.

And I have hundreds, if not thousands, of work prints artist proofs at my studio.

If you see an image of mine on The StuBlog or on my old website or on the Fezziwig Press Store or in any of my books, there's a beautiful small print in a box somewhere, perhaps with your name on it. And since I'm organized, I can find it.

Many of you can't afford my larger prints. I understand. I don't have an extra 50 or 100 lying around either. But I do have an extra $20 for stuff I really like.

So if you see an image of mine on any of my sites or in any of my books and you want it, it's yours for $25, shipping, handling and tax included. (I believe in paying taxes, sales and otherwise.)

Just email me at my facebook page or through the StuBlog or at stujenks@gmail.com, and tell me what print you would like or just pull the jpeg and send that to me.

I was just watching the Tarhells lose today in basketball, working on images at my computer when I thought, 'I bet people don't realize I have boxes of work prints here.'

You all do now.

Love and light,

Stu

p.s. Ignore the catagories belows. The computer went wacky. Another reason why I prefer a print in the hand as opposed to an image in The Cloud.

...The first draft of the novel is done!!!...

The first draft of the novel is done!!! It came in at 149,000 words, 552 pages in my document. Yeaaaa! I can't tell you how good it feels. The ending made me cry, as I hope it does you. (Last word in the novel, which won't change in revision: Sighs.) I want to jump right back to the beginning and start revisions, but Mary Ann suggests I take more than just a couple days off. OK. I'll take off three or four days. LOL. But then it's fixing this and revising that, then off to the editors. And I have ideas for the next novel in this series, too. I have some pretty great characters, I think, and I want to see what they will do next. But first things first. Get this novel to print.

One serious note: It took about a year to write this novel, but it almost didn't get done. With Mary and Pamela dying and all, I didn't work on it for about six weeks and it was so hard to get my momentum back. But I did. But it was difficult. If you are working on a novel or a large work, I recommend you plow through, even if the field is frozen. I've been told I'm very lucky to have gotten back on track.

Speaking of track, good luck to Danica Patrick tomorrow in the Daytona 500 and in the rest of Sprint Cup and Nationwide races this season. I might just have to go up to PHX next Saturday to watch her race.

By the way, did I mention I finished the freaking first draft of the novel?

Yeaaaaaaaaa!

...getting back on the Sunset Limited...

300 plus pages into the first draft of the novel. My main characters have just gotten off the train in Yuma. They'll be spending the night in Yuma, getting back on the Sunset Limited in the morning. God willing and the writer doesn't change his outline, they should be home in Tucson, tomorrow.

I'm guessing there's only about 70 to 100 pages untl I get to write the big climax of the novel. (I have a nice, hopefully-very-satisfying ending planned.) Then re-write and editors but that's then, not now. Now, I just want to share some more Graphic Pen images (and some straight photographic ones) that will be chapter heading images for the book. And just if you are wondering, Graphic Pen images are easier and cheaper to print lithographically and a little easier to design and upload for the IPad, Kindle and Nook. Anyway, have a happy Twenty Twelve, y'all, and don't forget to enjoy the mystery of it all.

Graphic Pen Images From The Novel

Been working on a backlog of images that may be chapter headers for the novel I'm writing. Images from Memphis, Pacifica, San Francisco, Picacho and Barstow.

I have been on the road a lot this year, haven't I? From North Carolina, Virginia, California, and parts inbetween.

It's good to be stationary for a while, working at my desk, with cool wet night air drifting in from outside, and the smell of lavender on my hands from a living plant I purchased today.

Happy Solstice everyone.

The Sun will return.

 

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"Holy Man"

"Holy Man, San Francisco, California" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

I made the mistake of not writing down the address in San Francisco where I took this image. If anyone knows who this holy man is, please let me know.

And thanks to everyone who came by my studio yesterday. Was great to see y'all. I'll be there this afternoon too, from 11 to 5. 549 N. 7th is the address. Thanks again.

Some Images From This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Some Images From this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco, California (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

"Noelle Scaggs of Fitz And The Tantrums at HSB"

 

"Noelle & Fitz of Fitz And The Tantrums at HSB"

 

"Buddy Miller at his soundcheck at HSB"

 

"Buddy Miller" (Photo by Cathy Spann)

 

"Cathy Spann Waving at HSB"

 

"Craig & Claire at Ocean Beach"

 

"Abigail Washburn at HSB"

 

"Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin & Robert Plant at HSB"

 

"A Bike Valet at HSB"

 

"Elbow at HSB"

 

"Thornton Beach Before Dark": A Video & Sound Meditation.

Stu Shooting 'Thornton Beach Before Dark': Image by Cathy Spann (c) 2011

Just go to the StuTube to watch a little video meditation shot last month at Thornton Beach. I mostly like the vid for the sound of the surf, but the movement of the waves, and the posture of the birds are fun to see too. Play it in the background as you make your morning cup of coffee, or perhaps, as you fall asleep at night. A small meditation piece, a gift from me to you.

I'm playing it right now as background music, as I type in this post, outside, at a local Starbucks in Tucson. Sweet.

But then again, as they say in North Carolina: "It ain't no thing." Just a little wave sound to mellow your day or night.

 

"I love my wife and she knows it..."

(This is what I posted this morning on the Official U2 Blog and the photos were shot by me with a little Canon point and shoot.)

No more moving moment happened last night then when Mark Kelly spoke from the Space Shuttle. He gave a floating intro to "Beautiful Day" and then said, "I love my wife and she knows it."

His wife is my Congresswoman. Gabby is recovering from her wounds in Texas, but all of us in Tucson miss her very much. I drove up for the show.

Yesterday was your birthday, Gabby, but your husband gave me a present last night.

We love you, Gabby. Get well, come home soon, and smell the sweet desert air.

And thanks so much, U2, for enriching my life in mysterious ways.

Love, Stu

"Pacific & Divisadero"

"Pacific & Divisadero, San Francisco, California" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

Download Weathertop at Willow Springs by Stu Jenks

Weathertop at Willow Spring by Stu Jenks from Soundtracks For Photographs, Vol. 3