This photo is the first time I saw an image in my head and was able to create just as I imagined it.
I saw it in a dream one night, just this clear image, blood and feathers. When I woke up, I knew I wanted to make this image. It’s not the first image I saw in a dream, but it was the first I was able to faithfully recreate.
I took it in 2011. I started taking photos in 2003. It took me eight years and about a hundred thousand photos to figure out how to translate what I saw in my head to the screen. The only way I got here was because I never stopped trying to create what I saw.
Mars Awaits Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Gimme Shelter Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Winter in the Rose Garden Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Court/Ship is an RPG setting about intrigue, romance and an alien invasion in the court of Louis XV Photo by J.R. Blackwell
MLA Fest
Jared Axelrod and Chris Morse, photographed in Vegas on the morning of Chris’s wedding.
Strip, Strip, Hooray Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Natalie at Laurel Hill Cemetery Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Pink Sunrise Photo by J.R. Blackwell
This is not a documentary image. Photography is often used to make people look “better” but I’ve found that there is so much more that can be done. Beauty is just the beginning.
Water and food coloring. Photographed in a metal bowl. Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Hearts Blood
Empire State
Self Portrait
Equis Photo by J.R. Blackwell
Reach Self Portrait by J.R. Blackwell
This is from a series of photos I took called “Blood and Sand” I wanted to give the feeling of an entire story behind one image, the implication of a story, as if you are looking at a movie still from a film that was never made.
Black River Falls
PJ Schnyder, Bite Me
Swordsman
From Jared Axelrod’s graphic novel: The Battle of Blood and Ink Photo by J.R. Blackwell
The Woman and the Storm: When the wind comes at just the right time.
Mortal Coil Photoshoot Avalon, Jared and Dan
Self Portrait
Self Portrait by J.R. Blackwell
365 Days Self Portrait Project Photo by J.R. Blackwell
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