Time to move the blog

I have to admit blogger has definitly fell behind the ball as to what you can do with the blog system. So it is without further ado, I bid blogger farewell and move over to wordpress hosted on my own site. It has a alot richer functionality that will blend with what I am doing with my photos, and allow me no restrictions. If you care to still follow me, you can find me at:

http://blog.ronheerkensjr.com

or

http://ronheerkensjr.com/wordpress

Either will take you to the same place.

-Ron

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Publicity pics & my first portrait session

Decided I had missed a couple of things and combined them together.

Maggie in a publicity photo for Spitfire Grill @ Blackfriars Theatre

Another shot of Maggie

Chris Cain, my most recent and also "first" true portrait session. More pics to follow.

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Water for Sudan @ Waterstreet

Been lax as of late, and had troubles with loggin in with my new plugin, seems to be fixed now. Anywho, missed the St. Patricks day post, maybe next post. The following are shots from Water For Sudan benifit concert at WaterStreet Music Hall

The stage...

Teressa Wilcox opens the show

Arthur Fraser of Sleeping Giant grooves on the guitar

Sleeping Giant and The Word of The Day

More Sleeping Giant

Arthur Fraser of Sleeping Giant closes out his set.

The show and music was great. Unfortunatly I did not get to stay past Sleeping Giant, and really wish I had the chance to. Congrats to the guys who made this possible.

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OLL @ BF goes up, SFX & photos done

Tonight Our Leading Lady at Blackfriars Theatre takes the stage. I finished Sound Design quite early in the week, and dealing with a major sickness during it really helped. Tried to stay away from the theatre to not get the crew and cast sick, but last night was production photos and I had no choice. I was quite pleased with the turnout.

Below are some of my favorites from the shoot. If you want to see more, visit my flickr page or Blackfriars Production page for more.

Publicity Shots were also featured in Weekend for D&C and also going to be main story in Sundays D&C. Yeah!

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Round 2 of Pub pics for OLL@BF

We did some more publicity shots last night at OLL tech night here are the results...

SFX are 95% done with very little tweaking left. We will be having a featured article in Tuesdays paper and front page of the weekend section. I am interested in seeing what they will be choosing for the featured shots.

In other news, I found a wonderful new tool to use with Adobe Lightroom. I must say I love Lightroom and the ability I have to upload to the various forms of "internet-media" I deal in. I can export to FaceBook, to Flickr, Send out Emails, upload to FTP and now today I found this wonderful plugin that allows me upload a blog directly from Lightroom.

It is a little basic right now, but it allows me to do the hard work of uploading, linking, and inserting photos into the blog, with a push of the button.

Ain't technology grand?

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Of little girls and lazy dogs

Our girls decided to entertain the notion of sledding inside the house...in a laundry basket. Though they were thoroughly amused, I was not happy with the results of being pulled around the house on our wood floor. Nonetheless they did enjoy themselves...


Emma enjoying...


Riley trying to distract and subsequenlty hide the evidence...

This morning the dogs really did not want to get out of bed...

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Our Leading Lady

February brings a crazy month to my theatre schedule, especially this week as STAY and STNY close, and at the start of next month brings the opening of Our Leading Lady.  A couple of shots from last nights shoot for publicity photos are online in my flickr repository. Below is my favorite from the night. Now on to SFX!



and another shot...

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Valentines Day Fun

It all began with some flowers...unfortunately delivered the day before by 1-800-Flowers instead of on Saturday...

The next morning began with the girls getting some teddy bears and valentines fun...

and Roscoe kisses


but Roscoe didn't seemed to enthused with the days activities...


All for the love of some Valentines Day.

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Emma and the aftermath of dinner

So I thought it would be fun to take pics of the girls last night during and after dinner. Needless to say I "forgot" to make sure Emma was wiped off before firing off some random posing pics. Well these shots would have looked nice, they now are a hoot considering Emma's face looks like she took a bath in her dinner.

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Back to my Axe to grind

Yes it has once again been a while since my last update. Life has taken many twists and turns in my family over the course of that time. Shall I list the ways...

Heart Attack.
Pancreatitis.
Cancer.
Tumors.
Infant Death.
Suicide.

A lot to handle by any means. The end of 2008 and start of 2009 has not been good for our family. We are slowly but surely put the pieces back together and resuming our lives, and helping other members of our family deal with these things as well.

Looking forward to the rest of 2009, I truly wonder what lies around the bend. Some of it scares me, some of it excites me. Personally as an artist I have made a major commitment that I hope pans out. I am branching out in to doing more photography and am spending the next couple of months getting a good portfolio set up.

On the subject of photography, my most recent show Same Time Another Year has had its pictures posted. Since last posting, I have done the photos for:

Pillowman. Magic Corridor. Same Time Next Year. Same Time Another Year. All these pictures can be seen on my flickr page, or on the Blackfriars website.

In conjunction with my photography portion of my biz getting setup, I have begun work on my photography website. It can be seen at http://www.ronheerkensjr.com . Feel free to dissect, discriminate and send suggestions my way.

Until next time.

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