Posted on June 27, 2001

• Last week I purchased a copy of Vue d’Esprit 4. For those of you not familiar with it, I used Vue d’Esprit 2 to create “Tropic of Capricorn“.

  The software arrived yesterday and I got to spend a few hours exploring the new features. It’s a great program and I always recommend it to everyone who asks me “what software should I use?”.

  Anyway, I made a few test renders. Jessie really liked one of them and she told me I should post it. OK. It’s called “Saguaro 2001” and you’ll find it on the new images page. The old “Saguaro” image is viewable in the 1998 gallery. I hope you like it!

Posted on June 23, 2001

• I added an updated version of “Stormfront” to the gallery. I used World Builder this time, whereas the old version was done using Bryce. Back when I lived in Iowa, one of my favorite things was to go out in the country and watch storms roll in. I re-did this image mostly out of nostalgia, as I haven’t seen a single decent thunderstorm since I moved to California. Let me know what you think.

Posted on June 18, 2001

• I’ve added a new wallpaper, called “First Rays”, to the gallery. You’ll find it on the new images page. Feel free to share any comments you may have.

  This one took a little longer than I would have liked, mostly due to the fact that I had to visit the dentist three times last week. Ouch!

Posted on June 8, 2001

• Added a new wallpaper this afternoon. If you liked “Smidgeons” you should like this one too. It’s called “Psychlococcus” and you can find it on the New Images page. There is a “focused” version available in the Pickle Jar. Let me know which version you prefer.

Posted on June 3, 2001

• First things first. I’ve posted a new wallpaper for you to check out. It’s called “Scarlet” and you’ll find it on the New Images page. I hope you like it!

• Jessie and I are finally moving out of our dinky apartment. We’ve been talking about it almost since we moved in 2 years ago. I’ve always said: “just let me do one more picture…” but that isn’t going to work any more. Besides, we’re both really tired of this place. I’m tired of looking out my office window at a featureless wall (really!). We’re both sick of the upstairs neighbors and their stereo. The list goes on and on.

  A couple of weeks ago we found our house. We made an offer, the owner accepted, and if all goes well we should be moving by the end of this month. The house is in a really quiet area and there is enough space so I might actually get some work done when Jessie is at home. There’s even a couple of extra rooms in case the stork pays us a visit 🙂

  We’re both really excited. If any of you have any good “new homeowner advice”, please feel free to send it my way. I’ll keep you posted on the move!

• Print Update: As I mentioned last time, my first shipment of test prints were somewhat damaged during shipping. My printer took it upon himself to do up another set of prints and send them out to me. These arrived last week in pretty decent shape (good enough that I’m getting one of them framed right now) but they were still not in good enough shape that I would feel comfortable selling them. The prints themselves look incredible, or at least that’s what this nice lady told me at the frame store 🙂 I’ve posted some new pictures of them if you’d like to have a look (DVD case added for scale).

  I heard that rolling up the prints damages them (by warping the paper) so I guess this means the prints will have to be shipped flat, and secured within some kind of strong material which will withstand the shipping process.

  Anyway, I’ll start selling the fine art prints as soon as I discover the best way to ship them. If you like my work then I guarantee you will love these prints. I’m pretty sure they’ll be available before the end of the summer, just in time to help me buy some furniture…