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Poofy Dress Race - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Poofy Dress Race

 

 

 

 

Racing By The Fluffies - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Racing Past The Fluffies

 

 

 

 

They don't throw rice anymore - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

They don't throw rice anymore.

 

 

 

 

Byb-bye Now - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Bye-bye Now

 

 

 

 


Feet In The Air - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Feet in the Air

 

 

 

 

The Gang's All Here - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

The Gang's All Here

 

 

 

 

A Frame Job - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

A Frame Job

 

 

 

 

The Tree-climber - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

The Tree Climber

 

 

 

 

Queue - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Colorful Queue

 

 

 

 

The Wedding Girl - Almost a Portrait - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Almost A Portrait

 

 

 

 

Bench Press - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Bench Press

 

 

 

 

The Fairie Princess - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

The Fairie Princess

 

 

 

Wedding Chair Laughter - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Wedding Chairs Laughter

 

 

 

 

xWedding Flower Stare - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Wedding Flower Stare

 

 

 

 

Climbing Trees - Photograph Copyright 2013 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

 

Climbing Trees

 

 

 


 

 

When I shoot something out of the blue, and I still want to show it, it may well end up on this page.

Everything you see here — and a bunch more more mundane activities — happened within a couple of hours on top of Winfrey Point on April 14, 2013. I was there to meet Anna, but I brought my little Panasonic Lumix G5 and two lenses, just in case something photo-worthy happened.

Like this.

There was a wedding, at least two photo shoots, maybe three, and an energetic family picnic. It was all fun to watch and great to capture.

 

I also photograph birds forn my Amateur Birder's Journal. I journal about two of my favorite (and newest) cameras, like my Panasonic Lumix G5 and the G2 that came before it, and my last couple years with my Nikon D7000. But my major opus on the topic of photography is How to Photograph Art or just about anything else, which I update and add to often.

I write personal stories into my ThEdBlog, which is pronounced and spelled thed blog but with odd capitalization and no spaces. Almost nobody reads it, which is fine with me, since it's more for me than them, although I generally have somebody in mind when I wrote it.

 

I write every day, just not always about art. Today, as I write this, it is early Monday morning at 6:21 February 25, 2013. I've just watched a movie, and before I put it away, I wrote a quick review to add to the sixteen hundred some-odd others I've written this century. Yesterday morning, noonish, afternoon, evening and night and well into this morning, I wrote about art and worked pictures up to show what I am telling about.

That's what this site is about. I know better than to claim I'm doing it "for the community." I'm doing it for me, because I love combining my two great skills of writing and photography into something that people will read. I might clear about a thousand dollars a year doing it. I don't sell ads, because I don't want ads in my text or competing with my photographs.

I'm retired and am on partial disability from my short vacation in Vietnam. I am incredibly lucky I don't need to make my living off this website, but it is my life, and I like that it works out that way. I sometimes think I'm too old for this. I'll be 69 on my next birthday, and I no longer feel obligated to write about art forever, but I still feel obligated to write about art sometimes.

I'll post the current art story, which of course is about me as much as it is about the art and artists I write about, by the middle or maybe a little later this week. First I'll post a notice on the cover that I'm working on the story. After I post it and link it to the cover, I'll keep changing things on it, making it simpler, easier to read, more explanatory, repetitively check my horrid typing and spelling, rewrite things to say what I meant to all along for a couple weeks, till I'm finally just so sick and tired of it, and at the same time, proud of it, that I can leave it alone.
 

My personal website is JRCompton.com/.   vitae
 

I publish DallasArtsRevue, which I've been making in this medium all this century. Before that I published it on paper from December 1979.

I also do a bunch of other things in that and a couple other pursuits, generally switching among them according to which is least boring at the moment. But through it all, I always, first and foremost, consider myself a photographer, although sometimes I forget and wander around lost awhile. When I come back, likelier than not, it's from taking photographs.

I've been a photographer since 1963, had photos published in Life Magazine, Jet, Texas Observer, The Dallas Times Herald, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas NOTES from the Underground, Hooka, The Austin Sun, Texas Monthly, The Dallas Observer and a bunch of other rags all over the world, and I have been in at least 99 exhibitions, a couple museums and even had a photograph of Mel Farmer in a floppy black hat and polka-dot shirt sandwiched between two other photos collaged on the cover of Grand Funk, Grand Funk Railroad's best-looking LP cover.
 

Grand Funk
 

In the 1970s, I edited and published underground newspapers, including Dallas NOTES from the Underground and HOOKA and later worked at Fort Worth's Trinity River Messenger, The Austin Rag, The Austin Sun and San Antonio's River City News.

In 1974 I published a newsprint book called armadilla about nine-banded armadillos, which publication begat, five years later, DallasArtsRevue. I also photographed for, designed, then co-published Texas Jazz. My work generally has to do with creating and maintaining a sense of community.

Since graduating from the University of Dallas, where I co-edited The U. D. Shield, I've spent most of my life in Dallas, Texas, USA. With only one little side trip into the Air Force, a podunk in Kansas and a little place in Southeast Asia called Viet Nam, then back here again. I know where things are, and I can usually find my way there and back.

D-Magazine, who correctly claimed that I've been been publishing stories about art longer than anybody else in Dallas, called me "Dallas' best local arts promoter" in 2007. They haven't named anybody else that since.

To support myself and my various media habits I've done a variety of jobs:

      Night Watchman at a Massage Parlor,

      Yellow Cab Driver

      Worker Bee at Mary B's Barbeque

      Secret Film Courier in Viet Nam

      Instructor of Desktop Publishing

      Macintosh Computer Tutor for artists until OS X

      Web maker for artists and galleries

      Art Critic

      Photographer of work that is art and

      Photographer of other artists' work.

Samples of my photographs are all over DallasArtsRevue.com and my personal site at JRCompton.com.

I have been on several boards of directors, which is why I do not have one of those and do not wish to have one, and my participation in this website will stop when I do.

I have been:

  • Editor/Producer for the Artists Coalition of Texas. I'd already self-published some issues, but they contracted with me to publish more. Later, they insisted I change the name to Texas Arts Revue. Then they broke our contract by ordering me not to publish stories about other art forms, so I took it back. After Mary Wachovia Ward proposed they become a center for art in Dallas, ACT became D-ART, D'art, Dallas Visual Art Center, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art and The Contemporary.
     
  • The P R Guy and Founding Board Member of Dallas Artists Research & Exhibition (DARE, which became The MAC, — a little, maybe, but usually not much, although they think it did, although they're the only other art center around who even tries, and they often do a bang up job of it.)
     
  • I was also on the board of the trailing edge of Allen Street Gallery, which disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after they fired me. I was the Program Committee Chairperson, and they did not find anyone else to do my job, so their benefactor took "their" building away when they stopped planning exhibitions. They fired me because I warned about nepotism, a lot of which was going on at the time, but it got worse.
     
  • Before that, I was a board-member of Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas (EGAD!), a Macintosh Users Group, for which I had previously been the Disk of the Month (DOM) Guy — a much more interesting, important and fun job — distributing fonts, utilities and shareware programs on floppy disks I either gave away or sold for one dollar.

    Now I know better than to get involved with any boards of directors. DallasArtsRevue is not a bona fide 501{c}(3) nonprofit organization, primarily so I won't have to kowtow to a bunch of idiots telling me what to do. I've always had issues with authority figures. As it is and shall be, I do what I want when I want. Mostly — although I ask for advice, especially from Supporting Members of this website and friends..

JRCompton.com has many more photographs — and ideas, including some you might not expect from whom you may think I am. There's my words about philosophy, psychiatry and romance — as if I knew anything about any of those, my full resume, list of exhibitions and exhibitions produced and lots else, too.

There's always my Amateur Birder's Journal usually about White Rock Lake — I've been writing about and photographing birds in that since June 2006.

I also write and produce the immensely popular (140,000 hits now as I update this text yet again.) How to Photograph Art, plus a bunch of squiggly others including Cameras & Lenses Useful for Photographing Art, my Nikon D7000 Journal, my Panasonic Lumix G2 Journal, my Canon s90 Journal, ThEdBlog - about me being me, How to Start Showing Your Art and How to Design & Produce An Invitational Postcard on this and my personal websites, among many other topical and/or personal web pages.
 

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