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Jason Collin Photography has made available a 12-month 2012 calendar featuring a selection of hand-picked vivid Florida images. This is a high quality 13.5" x 19" fine art photography calendar that can be purchased from Lulu.com using the link above.
I became more serious about photography in August 2008. I already had plans to leave Japan in February 2009. In that six month period I had a goal of getting a photograph published in the "Photo of the Week" section of Metropolis, the #1 English magazine in Japan. To my great surprise I reached that goal on October the 24th. Though no money was involved, for a few minutes it felt like I had won the lottery.
Then almost two years out of Japan, Metropolis contacted me for permission to have one of my photographs considered for their 2011 calendar. I had originally submitted it in January 2009. I said, "sure." I was then told it was selected for the month of January and the copies they mailed to me across the sea arrived this afternoon. I was also happy to find out I was sharing space with two other old Japan photographer friends, Vladimir and Alfie. I was with Vladimir when I made the above photograph, and really only went out shooting that day because of his invitation. So I guess I have him to thank most! The photograph is in fact, one of my own top five all-time personal favorites, and a shot I am rather proud of.
Getting a photograph published in Metropolis I feel is still a sort of right of passage for a photographer in Japan, and perhaps Tokyo especially. It results in a sort of Who's Who of photographers. A small, but nice honor.
This got me to thinking this afternoon about where my photographer career would be if I had stayed in Japan. Alfie is a true professional photographer with many connections and he was starting to appreciate my work. Could I have gone on to be more of a photojournalist like he is? Would I still have pursued lifestyle photography in Tokyo as well? I can imagine wedding shots with Mt. Fuji as the background, or family portraits taken under the cherry blossom trees in full bloom. Who knows . . .
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Featuring twelve unique fine art photographs, this 2011 calendar does not feature the typical images of Florida, but rather a very diverse series of images ranging from landscapes, to wildlife, to sunsets. Orders may be placed using this form. *Free shipping is provided to U.S. address only.
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Free desktop calendar wallpaper for June 2010 - Rainbow Springs fern waterfall
Jason Collin Photography is offering the image "Rainbow Springs Fern Waterfall" as a free* desktop wallpaper calendar. If you use it as your desktop wallpaper, please let me know in the comments.
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This image was made yesterday on a Memorial Day day trip to beautiful Rainbow Springs near Ocala, Florida. I had been wanting to make a "cotton candy" waterfall image for awhile, but lacked both the opportunity and the gear (stable tripod) until yesterday.
* All desktop wallpapers are provided without any technical support. All images are Copyright Jason Collin Photography, All Rights Reserved. Removing the watermark by digital alteration or cropping is prohibited. You are granted a single use, non-exclusive, perpetual license to install this wallpaper on any personal computer personally owned by you. This license grants you the right to use the wallpaper for non-commercial/personal use only. You may not re-sell, distribute, print or otherwise publish the image without the express written consent of the Copyright owner: Jason Collin Photography
Free desktop calendar wallpaper for December 2009, Pine Island Sepia Landscape
Jason Collin Photography is offering the image "Pine Island Florida Sepia Landscape" as a free* desktop wallpaper calendar. If you use it as your desktop wallpaper, please let me know in the comments.
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This image was made on Thanksgiving Day 2009. There is no snow in Florida so this was the most winter like landscape I could think of for making into December's free desktop wallpaper calendar. It is also one of my own personal favorite images of 2009 so far.
* All desktop wallpapers are provided without any technical support. All images are Copyright Jason Collin Photography, All Rights Reserved. Removing the watermark by digital alteration or cropping is prohibited. You are granted a single use, non-exclusive, perpetual license to install this wallpaper on any personal computer personally owned by you. This license grants you the right to use the wallpaper for non-commercial/personal use only. You may not re-sell, distribute, print or otherwise publish the image without the express written consent of the Copyright owner: Jason Collin Photography
Free desktop calendar wallpaper for October 2009, Kinkakuji The Golden Temple of Kyoto Japan
Jason Collin Photography is offering the image "Kinkakuji - The Golden Temple of Kyoto Japan" as a free* desktop wallpaper calendar. If you use it as your desktop wallpaper, please let me know in the comments.
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This image was made in Kyoto, Japan over New Years 2009. We made sure we arrived just as the temple grounds opened at 9am, that way beating the crowd allowing me to photograph Kinkakuji in relative peace. Also, the temple faces east, so the morning is the best chance to get sunlight to reflect off of the temple and heighten its gold look. I was lucky in that there was a significant break in the clouds for me when I was shooting the temple. As we left an hour later, clouds had completely taken over and anyone making a photograph of Kinkakuji then would not be shooting it at its full golden glow. I felt lucky.
* All desktop wallpapers are provided without any technical support. All images are Copyright Jason Collin Photography, All Rights Reserved. Removing the watermark by digital alteration or cropping is prohibited. You are granted a single use, non-exclusive, perpetual license to install this wallpaper on any personal computer personally owned by you. This license grants you the right to use the wallpaper for non-commercial/personal use only. You may not re-sell, distribute, print or otherwise publish the image without the express written consent of the Copyright owner: Jason Collin Photography
Free desktop calendar wallpaper for October 2009, Senjogahara Moor Japan
Jason Collin Photography is offering the image "Senjogahara Moor in Autumn" as a free* desktop wallpaper calendar. If you use it as your desktop wallpaper, please let me know in the comments.
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This image was made in Tochigi Prefecture in Japan. It was an unexpected find on a trip to Nikko that was mostly for photographing shrines and temples. I had never previously seen a moor in Japan before, nor such a wide open space not being used for farmland.
* All desktop wallpapers are provided without any technical support. All images are Copyright Jason Collin Photography, All Rights Reserved. Removing the watermark by digital alteration or cropping is prohibited. You are granted a single use, non-exclusive, perpetual license to install this wallpaper on any personal computer personally owned by you. This license grants you the right to use the wallpaper for non-commercial/personal use only. You may not re-sell, distribute, print or otherwise publish the image without the express written consent of the Copyright owner: Jason Collin Photography
