A Special Jazz Salute to Black History Month – February 1 thru March 4, 2012 – Jazz Heritage Center Lush Life Gallery – 1320 Fillmore Street – San Francisco. Opening reception and panel discussion on February 2 from 6-9pm. The panel discussion will be from 6-7pm in the Jazz Heritage Center Media Room and moderated by Norman K. Brown. Please come out!!!

I am very excited to be in the company of fellow artists, James Gayles and Jim Dennis for this exhibit.

As 2011 comes to a close, I want wish everyone a happy holiday season and all the best for 2012. This has been an incredible year of photography for me and I am expecting good things in the coming year.

Hears Looking At You Photo – A Visual Essay of Jazz and Blues

Jazz and Blues Art Photography of Kamau Amen-Ra, Tasin Sabir, Edward Miller, Charles Rhone, James Knox

Location: San Leandro Public Library
Street: 300 Estudillo Avenue
City/Town: San Leandro, CA

Exhibit Dates: July 1 – 31 2010

Artists’ Reception: Thursday, July 15, 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Library Hours:

Mon-Thurs: 10am-9pm
Fri: 10am-5:30pm
Sat: 10am-5pm
Sun: 12pm-4pm

Examiner.com: Hears Looking At You focuses on Bay Area jazz photography

Charles Lloyd New Quartet at the Palace of Fine Arts for the SFJAZZ Spring Season.

Celebrating the Photographic Art of Jim & Ted

Featuring images of people, places & abstracts by two East Bay photographers Jim Dennis and Ted Pontiflet

January 18 – February 26, 2010

Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery
State of California Office Building – Atrium
1515 Clay St. , Oakland CA 94607

3rd Thursday Events:

Thursday, January 21st -Reception 5-8pm
Thursday, February 18th 5-7pm– Live Performance by Lloyd Gregory, guitarist 7-8pm Conversations with the Artists

Reception and Events are part of “Third Thursday – Oakland Art Night”

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm

Free to the public

BART, AC Transit and Wheelchair Accessible

For more information contact: 510-622-8190 or 510.238.7386
www.oaklandculturalarts.org
Please join us!
I look forward to seeing you soon.

Jim Dennis
www.jimdennisphotography.com

From Drop Box

In June, I took a travel photography course at the Berkeley Public Library. The original focus of the class was travel photography but it became more of a photography 101 course which better served the needs of the students. I took this course for two reasons: You can always learn something new and to support a friend whom I encouraged to take the course. We met for four Saturdays in June and it was a very imformative class. I was able to learn new ways of using my DSLR (digital single lens relflex) as well as my point and shoot cameras.

The photo mosiac above was created using Picasa. After our third class, we went to the Berkeley Farmer’s Market on a photo stroll. The goal of this assignment was to take photos of things that caught our eye including being able to ask people to take photos of them. It was fun and people were nice about having their photo taken. For our final class, we did show and tell, showing the photos from the previous week’s assignment. In addition, I brought in some of my jazz photography to show the class.

Special thanks to Andrienne Miller, our photography instructor and Michelle McKenzie, Berkeley Public Library Librarian.

I was recently asked to select 8-10 jazz photos that I would submit for an exhibit.  Where does one begin? Which photos to select? Where is that photo that I thought was supercool?

The 10 images selected were taken at Bay Area music events and festivals over the past four years.

Update: I have been selected to be one of the four photographers to exhibit their jazz photography for the Jazz Appreciation Month exhibit in April 2010 presented by the San Jose Jazz Festival. I am very excited and nervous at the same time. Stay tuned for more details.

Welcome to Pixelbarry.com. This is my adventure into photoblogging. Of course, I will include concert photography and there will be other interesting subjects. Stay tuned!