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Just finished a fresh interview & included a previous interview for RedBubble:

Interview with Skip Hunt for 1stAngel: Click Here

Interview with Skip Hunt for RedBubble: Click Here


Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas

http://skiphunt.carbonmade.com
http://www.skiphuntphotography.com
http://skiphuntphotography.tumblr.com

Hi,

Got a fresh interview at RedBubble: Skip Hunt Interview

Well... mostly fresh... ;-)










Valley of Life

Into a brutal harsh desert we are born. Alone.

Sentenced to wander golden dunes of time in search of meaning.

Alone, we follow an invisible path to carry us nowhere...

Alone, we finally arrive at both the place we sought...

and from where we first began... so many eons ago.


I made this image in 1998... somewhere near Merzouga, Morocco.

Good news, and just in time for the holidays!

I've just completed 12 brand spankin' new calendars for 2009.
















Each edition focuses on a different theme:

1. Skip Hunt Photography ~ The Best of Guatemala

2. Skip Hunt Photography ~ The Best of Mexico

3. Skip Hunt Photography ~ The Best of South Africa

4. Skip Hunt Photography ~ Vertical Wall Flowers

5. Skip Hunt Photography ~ Horizontal Wall Flowers

6. Skip Hunt Photography ~ A Few of My Favorite Things Vol. 1

7. Skip Hunt Photography ~ A Few of My Favorite Things Vol. 2

8. Skip Hunt Photography ~ A Few of My Favorite Things Vol. 3

9. Skip Hunt Photography ~ Blanco y Negro

10. Skip Hunt Photography ~ Naturally

11. Skip Hunt Photography ~ My Favorite Color is...

12. Skip Hunt Photography ~ My Favorite Peeps!



See them all here.




Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas
skiphuntphotography.com

Hey Everybody,

Great news! I just secured a sitar player for the reception. It was
looking grim, but I finally found a great one!

His name is Chris Corsbie and you can here his work HERE. (http://www.myspace.com/chriscorsbie )

Also, if you've already made it by House Wine to see the work... I've added 3 new images to the group for the reception.

There will be wine tasting, snacks, and wine specials... etc. So if you're in Austin on this coming Wednesday December 10th... come on by and check out the work (http://www.skiphuntphotography.com ) and relax to some awesome live sitar playing as well!

Reception 7pm until 9pm

Not to mention... House Wine is my new favorite "hang" in Austin.

Hope to see you there!

HOUSE WINE ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/house-wine-austin )

(near Barton Springs and Lamar behind P.Terry's)
408 Josephine St
Austin, TX 78704

(512) 322-5210

Please RSVP and as always... please tell your friends and feel free
to pass this on to anyone else you think might be interested!

Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas
http://www.skiphuntphotography.com

Hey Everybody!

Sorry, I haven't had an update in awhile. Been busy stopping smoking, etc. At 18 days so far!!! Woo-Hoo!!! Cold Turkey baby! And a big thanks for the patience to anyone who's had the great misfortune of having to interface with me over the first couple of weeks of stopping smoking and listen to me go bananas and smacking multiple pieces of chewing gum. ;-)

In the meantime.... if you didn't get a chance to stop by my opening reception at Caffe Medici or see the work on display before August 24th... Good News! The artist that was supposed to follow me wasn't quite ready yet so I was asked if I could leave the show up until the end of September. Since I had more than a month more time there... I went ahead and changed ALL t he images out with new ones. These are all different and focus more on the abstract than literal imagery. So if you missed the first showing at Caffe Medici (11th & West Lynn ~ Austin, Tx.)... please stop by and check out the brand new work!

I also just hung a completely new show of Mexican images from my recent odyssey through Mexico on a motorcycle. These are a combination of abstract color/texture along with a few literal peices as well. I hung these in an odd way to sort of emmulate Mexican laundry hanging out to dry. This show is at Cafe Thunderbird (Woodward & Koenig/2222 ~ Austin, Tx.)



The new show will hang for the month of September, so please stop by and have a look. I'm not sure if I'll have a reception for this one or not, but if I do... it will be a "closing reception" toward the end of the month with some sort of music entertainment as well.

My image called "Jesus Wept" will be auctioned off on Saturday, Sept. 13th http://www.austinartgarage.com/politicalaction/

Other than that.... expect an update regarding new images going up at Hyde Park on Duval Street in late September until mid-November and projected slide shows of my work at the Xemumba festival: http://www.myspace.com/xemumba


That's all for now... I promise. ;-)

Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas
http://www.skiphuntphotography.com

Hey, I finally got my freakin' POS iphone working right. I'm on my third replacement in a week.

But now I have it working... I downloaded this little app that lets me take snapz and upload them to a simple blog on the spot. So, I've started taking little snapz throughout the day, and uploading them. Not hi-res... no editing... just snap shots along the way. You know... shots of one of our two cats.... detail at the pool... a glass of wine at a dive bar... etc. Off to a show tonight and might try sending a snap from there. Anyway... candid shots along the way.... day to day... visit if you feel up to it. I'm going to try and keep it current.

http://www.fuzzyshot.com/skiphunt

Can't swing another long trip at the moment, so I headed out to N.E. Texas with my new Nikon d300 to try and learn and to see what sort of place is called "Uncertain, Texas". Went with Mike, a friend of mine. He endured one of my Mexican trips with me about a year and a half ago on his big KTM bike. Still riding it and I'm still on the wee-strom (38k and still no problems! - so glad I'm no longer on that troublesome KLR I had) ;-)

Mike's amazing. He's 70 freakin' years old and hangs right there with me... taking curves at 100+ mph... enduring 112F heat, unbearable humidity, and let's not even talk about the mosquitos. If I'm half a tough as Mike at his age... I'll consider myself one lucky camper.

Mike is a hardcore evangelical Christian... can't remember the variety, but he observes what his faith believes to be the "true sabboth" on Saturdays... and follows a diet consistent with what is allowed in the Bible. Needless to say... this peyote-poppin' hippy and he have some great conversations. ;-)

Truth be told... July was NOT the best time of year to ride motorcycles up to camp in basically a swamp near the Louisiana border. We stopped off in some cool towns along the way... won a little cash in the Shreveport casinos... and circled back through the piney forests of East Texas... camping along the way.

Would like to head back up that way when the weather cools off a bit. But, I got a few nice snaps between wiping away the sweat and drinking water non-stop.
You can view a few by clicking http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/roadtrip/

One last thing... about a year and a half ago, the "Great Spirit" in the Mexican desert warned me that I had to quit smoking. I was told that if I quit before my 45th birthday (coming up August 17th), I will likely escape the ravages caused by smoking. But if I ignored the warning and continued to smoke... I would certainly suffer greatly. So, I'm not taking any chances and will soon quit for good. I may smoke all the way up to August 16th, 11:59PM... but after that I'm finished. If anyone happens to catch me smoking... please give me a very hard time about it, and wish me luck!!!

All for now, and I hope you enjoy this new collection of images! So far... quite pleased with the Nikon d300. :-)

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Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas

- visit my blogs, etc. @

http://www.skiphuntphotography.com
http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/moleskine.html
http://www.poppinfreshmedia.com/skipmexmc.html

A few more pix from my recent road trip:

Hey everybody! I'm back from Uncertain, Texas.. HOOOOT and TONS of mosquitos... lost a little money in Shreveport, Louisiana casinos.... toured some of Louisiana, and back into Texas stopping and camping along the way and shooting fresh images.

Great trip, but what's with the folks in N.E. Texas and the lack of teeth? ;-) A different backwoods world I tell ya.

Well, off to the shower and then a nice glass of vino to kill my pain, and sooth my sun-blistered face.

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I did find just about everyone I met to be extremely talkative, curious, and friendly. Sometimes it was difficult just to go in somewhere for an iced tea without getting trapped in an endless conversation about nothing more than the weather. Or, how quickly the deer hunting season is approaching... Or, the Dallas Cowboys. Didn't meet many who wanted to chat about art theory though. ;-)

The trip was just ok. And, I didn't shoot as much as I thought I would. I was mostly struck by the "sameness" of Texas towns. I'd noticed it in other parts of Texas, but was hoping the N.E. would be significantly different. They all look like the exact same architect did ALL of them. Same town layout... etc. The same could be said of much of Mexico too. But at least in Mexico each seems to put some twist on the same theme... different color scheme, etc.

Also... it was extremely HOT and HUMID. They said hurricane Dolly was to blame and that it's not usually that bad. It was so bad that it really sucked the life out of you and nearly made you feel ill. I just couldn't drink enough water.

I did see enough in some parts to make me want to go back.... when it's MUCH cooler. ;-)

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A few pix from this trip:

Dang it! When I think of all the time I spend online lately... gotta kick my ass out the door. I can't really take a long trip right now because I'm involved in a small product launch and don't want it to proceed too much further without me. So, I've decided to just take a quick 4-5 day motorcycle trip up into NE Texas near the Louisiana border to a place called "Uncertain", Texas. There's a lake there that's mostly swamp I think... and the area is an ancient Indian sacred site. Might drop over to Bousier City, Louisiana to hit an Indian casino and lose myself a few bucks before heading back. Will be out of pocket without my laptop this time.

I'm told the water there at Caddo Lake looks black with eerie cypress trees and Spanish moss, misty, foggy, etc. Sounds like there might be some good photo ops as well.

Wish me luck that I don't encounter some Indian ghost in the night... Or, wish me luck that I DO encounter some Indian ghost in the night. ;-)

Personally, I'm hoping for an encounter with and Indian ghost... or, perhaps an alien. Wouldn't mind actually seeing one of those either.