Changing

by Jon B Barry, Simian Doucet (Editor)

Overview

Period:
Changing is the second episode of the series, taking up in August of 2008 and chronicles the author as he embarks on a trip to Central America. Feeling the need for a new direction, Jon starts making some changes. Looking for an edge, he books a trip with a model from Florida to meet up in Honduras and travel through Guatemala to San Ignacio in Belize. Jon had worked with Sarah in Baton Rouge when working a gig there in August and excited by the prospect of the adventure.

Story:
Changing joins Jon in August, as a chance meeting with a model, Sarah, in Baton Rouge leads to them creating photos of some merit. This meeting, and Sarah’s description of her family home in Belize, was one of the catalysts for a trip to Central America where he hopes to take his artistic nude photography to a higher level.

Reflections:
Reflections are what Jon experienced as he remembered his trip some five years ago, assembled his images, revisited his memories, and produced this photo-rich adventure e-book, which wound up involving a cast of hundreds. The nudes are stunning, the landscapes – exotic, the photos of children – joyful.

The street photography takes the reader along for the ride as Jon meets with the locals in their simple, ‘poor’ environments and witnesses rich happiness they possess. Buy the book and read the story, tell your friends about this reinvention of the coffee table photo-book. Comment and give us feedback; we hope you enjoy the journey.

Episode 2
Changing is necessary for survival, or so Jon believes; he loves what he does and loves to work. This book contains a hundred plus images in the photos section, but the challenge is still to show more. So, links to extra Hi Resolution galleries relevant to the story can also be found throughout the text section. While the pads show the images quite well, nothing can compare to viewing them on a large computer monitor or Internet-enabled large screen TV.

Overview:
Changing beckons the reader to follow Jon all over Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Leaving Baton Rouge via Houston to meet up with Sarah and her husband in San Pedro Sula is the start of his adventure. Even as he travels, the realization is ever there, that the future is uncertain and we are left with the question “what next?” still hanging.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149160648
Publisher:	Artkeep, Inc.
Publication date:	03/06/2014
Series:	Realizations , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

My background in art has been quite varied over the last 50 or more years. When I was very young, I wanted to be a naturalist, much like John J. Audubon, who was my hero when I was growing up. Drawing animals and coloring them in was one of the things I liked doing more than anything in the world. Later, as I got into high school, my interest shifted to… drawing pictures of naked women.
My uncle, Bubby Huye (my mother’s brother) was a commercial artist in Baton Rouge, and I wanted to be just like him. I simply did not have the ability to draw as well as Bubby did. So, I cheated.
Back then, there were few pictures of nude women around—generally, only in art books and in the form of paintings.

Just like so many other young boys, I discovered National Geographic, and learned how naked women looked. The females depicted were always natives of some far away country. Back then, National Geographic was also a magazine where a great number of nudes were drawn. The fact was, having access to photos of nude women was difficult. I am sure other boys looked and learned through Playboy Magazine or Esquire Magazine. I did not.

Catalog magazines such as Spiegel controlled a great deal of the lingerie market. I would tear out the photos of the nearly nude beautiful women and put that printed page onto one of the little glass tables that my mother had. I would set a lamp underneath it and use it like a light table.

I then traced images of the women, leaving the lingerie out of my drawings. I never thought any of it was wrong until my grandmother caught me at it. Even back then nudity was thought of as bad, and she caused me to go underground. I later learned that my uncle used to do much the same thing when he was my age, but Bubby had the distinct advantage of being able to draw much better than I could. He did not need the tracing table.

Over the years, I learned I would never be an artist with an ability to draw well. Drawing is a discipline and it can be learned, but what cannot be learned is how to see something and take that something from one’s head, from memory, and convey it as an accurate drawing onto a piece of paper. Drawing was never going to be one of my assets. I took to photography to overcome this shortcoming, and to be able to accomplish the fantasies that were filling up my head.