Photography Sexahol Jon Hillenbrand, July 17, 2011October 17, 2019 High school was a strange time of pre-internet sexlessness and adults warning me endlessly in varying filmstrips and interrupted lesson plans of the dangers of “Peer Pressure”. Peer Pressure (PP), I capitalize both letters intentionally, was something as strange and mysterious as any drug but with the added danger of…
Photography Glimpse Jon Hillenbrand, June 1, 2011October 17, 2019 Don’t you just hate it when every time you go out to eat near the building where your ex works, you think you are going to see her, but you never do? The only thing you can do every time you enter the outdoor seating area is quickly scan everyone’s…
Photography You are now pregnant with oil Jon Hillenbrand, March 23, 2011October 17, 2019 Listening to Moulin Rouge’s final scene on YouTube while editing pregnancy test photos is a great multitasking combination. Earlier during the photo shoot, we didn’t have any urine to drop into the pregnancy test (thank goodness), so we used water which I am coloring yellow in very careful mouse moves. …
Photography Photography Workflow Jon Hillenbrand, March 15, 2011October 17, 2019 This may initially look complicated but this is the photography workflow that I currently use including the route from initial captured image, through ingestion and processing, distribution and eventually to archiving. INGESTION: Through Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, images are copied to a working internal hard drive on my PC. During this…
Photography My Version of Inception Jon Hillenbrand, March 1, 2011October 17, 2019 So, after typing my last post which was about the recent increase in surprises in my life, and after proofing and publishing it, SURPRISE!, only half of the post was published. Everything I added after previewing the post was deleted forever. That goes into the, “Bad Surprises,” category of course. But the more…
Photography Supplies! Jon Hillenbrand, March 1, 2011October 17, 2019 I don’t squeeze my toothpaste tube up from the bottom the way everyone else does because I like there to be some surprises in my life. Like, “Hey, there’s a whole ‘nother glob of extra toothpaste over here in this part! Just when I thought I was running out!” Unfortunately,…
Thoughts Valentine’s Day Mass Cure Jon Hillenbrand, February 14, 2011October 17, 2019 What is this? Two blog posts on Valentine’s Day? Yes, I’m trying to make up for five years of not posting anything V-Day related, or as my sister Anne calls it, Single’s Awareness Day. So for all of my single cohorts on this most-challenging of days, I present to you…
Photography Car Show Girl Jon Hillenbrand, January 24, 2011October 17, 2019 The Chicago Auto Show is coming up again soon and that means there’s a chance I’ll see her again. Wait, who? The girl from the car show! More on her later. Silly, I know. The statistics for attendance at the CAS are unreal with millions of people jammed into ten…
Photography Memento Jon Hillenbrand, November 25, 2010October 17, 2019 Sometimes when I sit introspectively and review the conversations of the day in my head, I think, “Why didn’t I acknowledge when Sally told me that she was in love with Jack? I just sat there and then changed subjects. Why the heck did I do that? And now I’m…
Photography Smashed Android Jon Hillenbrand, November 12, 2010October 17, 2019 Hey blog. It’s like 3am. I am obviously not going to fall asleep any time soon despite a killer-busy day today which ended at 10:30pm. I don’t know what PM stands for but it feels like post mortem after the longer days. So I was laying in bed just now…
Thoughts Jury Rigged Jon Hillenbrand, November 9, 2010October 17, 2019 A while ago, I was requested to serve my country in one of those most boringly intimidating ways possible…jury duty. This was my first time being called up and I have to say that I was nervous about it in the way that one is nervous about failing the written…
Photography Adaptive Preference Formation Jon Hillenbrand, November 7, 2010October 17, 2019 You can’t reach the grapes so they are probably not ripe anyway, right? This attitude is known as Adaptive Preference Formation. It’s what we do, as humans, to justify our failures. The other day, I had to do a photo shoot where I KNEW that most of the photos were never…
Photography The Mystery of the Exploding Girl Jon Hillenbrand, October 24, 2010October 17, 2019 I can’t think of anything to write about tonight so I am just going to start writing and see if anything comes out of my head in opposition to my writer’s block. Maybe I should simply describe the above photo. I took this shot back in 2005. It was a…
Thoughts Falling for you Jon Hillenbrand, October 19, 2010October 17, 2019 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! How many of you read that and thought, “He’s saying, ‘ahhh,’ like he’s satisfied with something…oh wait, the r’s and g’s and more h’s to indicate that he’s frustrated or angry. Here we go again. (roll eyes now)” So, massive apology to the world for my basic mood lately. I’ve…
Photography All these things that I’ve done Jon Hillenbrand, October 14, 2010October 17, 2019 Tomorrow is my birthday. Thirty-six. Alla, the girl who cuts my hair, says I’m just a baby though an increasing percentage of the clipped hair falling from her scissors is silver. She’s getting married for the second time now at forty-five and I’ve never seen her happier. She insists that…