Stu Jenks' Fezziwig Press

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 [email protected], 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.

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.

 

"STS-133"

“STS-133: Canaveral National Seashore, Florida

    “So, do many people come here to watch the launches of the Space Shuttle?” I ask, as I hand my money to the man at the west gate of Canaveral National Seashore.
    “We close the Park three days before each launch,” he says without emotion.
    “Too many people crowding the beach?” I ask.
    “No,” says the park ranger, “It’s in case, if something goes wrong, no one will get hurt.”
    “Oh,” I say.
    You mean if the Shuttle blows up soon after launch, fire and debris will rain from the sky and kill people. Yikes. But I’d still chance it. Anytime. Day or night. Just have me sign a waiver.
    Thirty minutes later, I’m at a rickety fence on the beach. A tall guard tower sits off to my right, the Atlantic Ocean crashes to my left. Video cameras, here and there. I raise my 5D to my eye, then lower it without taking a shot. I just gaze in awe. A childhood dream come true. There’s the Space Shuttle Discovery right over there! I’m looking right at it! (It’s scheduled for launch on November 1st, the day before All Souls’ Day. Next to last launch of any Space Shuttle, for that matter. They are retiring the program in 2011.) I may or may not ever see a launch but right now, I really don’t care.
    For STS-133 is right over there!
    I wipe the tears from my eyes, raise my camera again and begin shooting. 

"Love, Let Go, Love Some More"

"Love, Let Go, Love Some More; Cathy's Fault, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks

"The VLA: for Walter Cronkite"

"The VLA: for Walter Cronkite" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks

Alan Bean: Artist & 4th Man on the Moon

[Photograph by Pete Conrad, of Alan Bean, from Apollo 12; and Painting by Alan Bean entitled "Is Anyone Out There?". Check out Alan's great paintings on his website.]

"STS-124 Mission" (c) NASA

"STS-124 Mission" (c) NASA 2008

[A couple of amazing high-def images from the last Space Shuttle mission: STS-124. Thanks to Ms. Parker for sending those to me and to NASA for everything else.]