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"Then I Passed" - "Dried" Photo

Framed Photography Now AvailableJust updated kjwriteleft.com with options to add framing to your photograph for only $30 extra. I am also working on adding other sizes and hopefully affordable poster size prints as well (only on certain shots to maintain quality). I have on my own wall a framed print of an unreleased photo in [...]

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Statue of Confucius on Chongming Island in Sha...

Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job? Confucious would have told you to get a job! Image via Wikipedia As a writer and artist there have always been times when money is a rare sight so is is quite common to meet creative people in a range of professions. Some have abandoned their creative [...]

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Blue CrossBlue Cross

Paintings now Back in the Art GalleryI have re-photographed some of my paintings and added them to the art gallery which is currently displaying photography. Some of the paintings are from an original poetry series and others are individual pieces. You can access the art gallery by clicking the painting above. Thanks for visiting KJ [...]

Stepping StonesStepping Stones

Fourth Poem and Photograph of the New SeriesThe new poem “Stepping Stones” is now online as well as the black and white photo: I hope to have the other six poems and photographs online as soon as possible. In the meantime you can enjoy all four poems and photographs from the new series here. Thanks [...]

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Most Visitors On the Site!Records broken! With a bit of a slow week on the main site KJ Takes a Blog has had its most amount of visitors on at a single time. 69 visitors were online tonight, not to mention the hundreds of the last few days. Both kjwriteleft.com and KJ Takes a Blog [...]

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A painting in progress from current inspiration

Back to the Old Look and Old Art!I love my blog! Well, after considering some of the other websites I am running I always feel sorry for this one sometimes. I play around with it, get distracted by the main site and then ignore this one. But since this has been an old faithful blog [...]

"Then I Passed" - "Dried" Photo

The Photography of the New Series“Then I Passed” Series As you may have seen the new poetry series “Then I Passed” has been available on the website. This series (unlike some of the others) has had a set of photographs as its base. The solemn black and white photography has been the focus for the [...]

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Portrait of Artist Tony Hong - Black and white...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16 Image by fashionphotographerinla via Flickr kjwriteleft.com Black and White Prints http://kjwriteleft.com/beta/buy-prints-direct/63-other-prints/1155-black-and-white-prints.html # @ichoicehl Perfect comment on trending topics, yes that is a much truer statement, especially since so many intelligent people still tweet in reply to ichoicehl # kjwriteleft.com “Then I Passed” Series – “Dried” Poem and Photograph http://is.gd/bBg3N # [...]

Athletic Jessica

Art Gallery Added to kjwriteleft.comEasier to view photography! As I have been developing the site in the last few days I have updated the way you can view photography and order prints through the site. I have added a whole new gallery which will give you a better resolution view of the images and easier [...]

The photo for the poem "Barriers"

New Photograph and Poem “Barriers” Online NowI have added the third in the “Then I Passed” series to the site (finally!). So thank you for being patient with me as this series gets released. I wanted to build up the series by releasing them one by one which fits in with a lot of themes [...]

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Third Poem and Photograph for “Then I Passed Series” Coming SoonAs I have said in some previous posts I have been very busy at the moment doing site maintenance, getting the photography print orders done as well as study, work AND writing the new poetry series. I can say the photography is finished (and has [...]

Photography Sections Fixed!!!!!!Ok, after a lot of effort most of the photography on the site is now visible to guests again! It turned out to be a URL issue, won’t bore you with the details. Here is an overview of the sections as I have a feeling many of you may have been shown empty [...]

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Updates to Photography Prints and Poetry SectionUpdate! Just a quick post to let you all know I have been working REALLY hard on the site to get it all updated for this month. As you know the new series “Then I Passed” has two poems and two photographs completed and you can view the first [...]

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Purple LeavesPurple Leaves

Preview of New Fantasy PhotographyNew Prints Coming Soon: Here is a new photo continuing some of my own exploration with colour and contrast in photography. I will be using some of these techniques to add some new decorative photography prints to those already available on the site. I hope to be concentrating on using small [...]

A shot with depth through the trees.

Complete Revamp to the Photography Prints SectionUpdates to Shopping on kjwriteleft.com I have just been updating and improving the shopping section of kjwriteleft.com. As you may know writing poetry and creating the art you see on the site takes a lot of time and also money. While I enjoy doing this I wanted to make [...]

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