Jerrycooke's Journals

Jerry's Back Buzz-Baby!

Oh yes, I'm back, back again.

Where I have been is a complicated question, for I am a complicated chap, but back I am once more. Okay, in all seriousness I've just been busy with Uni, some personal projects and far too much facebook to be my old community supporting self.. BAD JERRY!

But I'm back now and I'm going to try my best to get back into active ways!

In other news, I've getting really into YouTube at the moment, so if you're on there PLEASE subscribe, I'm trying to hit 100, because I've got a killer idea for a 'Thankyou 100 subscribers' video that I'm dying to do ;)

You can find me on http://www.youtube.com/jerryhcooke

New studio series

As you can see, I've uploaded a large series of new studio shots of my good friend Rachel and her fiance Josh, who are getting married in August.

They came down to visit for a couple of days which was lovely, had great weather yesterday, so we went on a long walk round all the old mining stacks, ending up on top of Carn Brea, near the castle. Weather wasn't too nice today, but we headed to my university to use the studio as they want some nice photos for the order of service for the wedding (which I'll be also taking some photos at.. though not as the actualy photographer, which is a great stress relievers, since I don't have to worry about getting perfect photos, cause somebody else is.. hehe).

Anway.. lots of fabulous coupley studio pictures (perfectly lit if I do say so myself)

Ciao,

J x

4,000+

Today I passed the 4,000 photos mark on here. I had intended to celebrate the 4000th post with a special picture, but I underestimated the amount of pictures I'd take in Exmouth, so have overshot the target.

So, I'll take this moment to celebrate 4,000 memories :)

Fire! Fire! Fire!

There was a major factory fire in my town today, only a few hundred meters from my hourse. Needless to say I took a great many photos. I've posted 25 of them on here, so check them out :)

I'm now trying to flog some to the local press ;)

WARNING: MASS LONDON PHOTO UPLOAD!!

Okay, so on this trip I took about 600 pictures. I culled some on the way home and now have 470 left. I'm expecting to not upload about 75% of these pics, but that still leaves around 100 pictures remaining. Due to this large size, I will not be uploading the bulk of these pictures to buzz, only to my flickr. I will choose ten or so of my faves for here, but most will only be on flickr!

New portrait series...

I shot a portrait series today, but can't be arsed to upload the pics to here (cause they're 40mb .TIFF files!)

If you want to see them, head over to my flickr page :)

flickr.com/photos/jerrycooke

You have been warned...

I've hit the wall. The final straw has dropped (or cracked, or whatever it is that final straws are supposed to do). Buzznet has been sooo screwy recently and I'm not happy about it. Entire archives of my older pics seem to be shrunk and compressed and the comment system failures over the last two days have REALLY pissed me off.

When I started posting more on flickr a while back, it was mostly for the better archiving capabilities, but now I'm finding myself more and more inclined to post over there.

However, what with buzznets recent mistakes, quite a few of my favorite people have started posting on flickr more as well, which gives me less and less reason to come here. DON'T WORRY - I'm not going to stop entirely, but it's become so hard for me to post and name posts on here, that I've got a feeling that:

A) I'm going to be posting less often (Not until I've got a batch to upload together)
B) The pics are going to be reduced sizes to cope with buzz's slow speeds. (but not smaller than the frame)
C) I won't be bothering to name the pictures on buzznet.

So, if any of you feel a need to see my most recent pictures in all their full size, named glory, then I'm affraid that you're going to have to check out my flickr page at www.flickr.com/photots/jerrycooke

I'm still going to pop back and comment on my favorite people who haven't yet made the move, but I hope that those few might decide to come over and join us on the dark side some time soon. The grass is greener over there :p

Lots and lots of love,

Jerry x

Hooray for technology!

Well, I had my university induction today, which gave me a chance to look aroudn the facilities that are on offer for my photography couse. A quarter of a million pounds has been spend on the department recently :p

We've got a huge studio with brand new equipment including gantry ladders!!

We've got a well stocked suite of macs for our design work!!

I love photograhic technology :)

Meep!

Well, I finally got round to joing the local library, so I'm back on the net at last.

One big glitch however is that my PC died on Thursday, so all the pictures that I had ready to upload to buzz are all locked away on my 3.5" IDE disk, which I can't access because I've not only got access to my laptop, which only takes 2.5" IDE disks, grrrrr!

Anyway, apart from that annoyance, everything else is pretty much settled, I'm all moved in at the new place and have started work at my new store. Best of all, I've got my university induction day next Tuesday (the sooner I start my course the better, I'm feeling a little lethargic sitting around the house all the time).

Anway, my student finance comes through some point in the next couple of weeks, so I'm going compute shopping when it does (I've got a photographic power-house in mind, a Media Center PC with a 3.2GHz intel duo, 2GB ram, 300GB HD and 512MB graphic accelerator, might even be powerful enough to run Adobe Lightroom. HA!). Then I'll actually be able to get my pictures off of my old HD.

Until then, I've got half a dozen new pics up...

Hope you're all well!!!

J x

TANTRUM I DON' WANNA WAIT!!! TANTRUM

I've just oppened my student bank account and am going to use it to buy a EOS 350D today (a DIGITAL REBEL XT, to you american readers), but I can't do it till this afternoon, because I have to wait for my application form to be taken down two sets of stairs from processing to accounts, which (it seems) takes 3 hours...

I WANT MY EOS NOW!!!!! :(