tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19834546673037338762012-01-24T11:53:12.162-05:00These are the words that go with the pictures.Rob Acocellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12997842637498338521noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983454667303733876.post-2228114986720236562012-01-24T11:38:00.001-05:002012-01-24T11:53:12.170-05:00

I've got a few things in the pipeline right now, but here's a really quick update on something pretty exciting for me: I found out from my good friend Steve Bello that one of the photos I took of him is in the new Ibanez 2012 Electric Guitar Catalog! Sure, it's not the cover, or a full page, heck, it's not even an inset, but you know what? I took it, and it's in there, and that makes me happy

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I know things have been slow here on the blog. Been doing a lot of thinking and re-organizing on the business end and I hate to admit it, but it takes away from the time available to really exercise creativity. Anyway, I've gotten a lot of requests from people to do office holiday parties, so this year I'm officially making myself available for all of your holiday party needs. Whether you just

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Do you and your family send out new photos every year around the holidays? Have you had your portraits done yet this year? If not, and if you are from the NY or NJ area, I've got a special offer for you. Instead of going to the mall and supporting the larger corporate chains that don't take the time to make sure everything is perfect, you can have an in-home or on-location family portrait done

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I've got a little secret to share with everyone who was wondering if I had gone to the Big Four concert at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 14. I did not go. But here's the catch, I could have. In fact, I was cleared with credentials to shoot the show and have access to the press box to write up a piece on it for Paragon. The problem is that I found out about it too late. The Big Four show was a very high

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I am very happy to share some exciting info with everyone. I was recently asked to put together a video for a song called "Like Animals", recorded by a long-time role model of mine, Monica Richards. Monica is well known throughout the Goth scene as both a solo artist and for her role in Faith & the Muse. After doing a couple of features on her in Paragon, we kept in touch and I've been honored to

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I've mentioned my friends in the band Swashbuckle on this blog in the past. They are a fun bunch of guys that dress up like pirates and play pirate-themed Thrash Metal. They just left to go overseas to play a bunch of European Metal festivals and before they left they did a hometown warm-up show. I wanted to go check them out but I knew there wouldn't be a photo pit set up at a bar show and I'd

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After the pursuit of fun and art is over, an artist still needs to eat and have shelter, right? This basic concept is at the root of why you have to pay an artist for their work. After all, we're people too, and we expect and need the same things that everyone else does. But what happens when your needs are met, but not your full demands or expectations? I recently did a shoot for a long-time

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Running a business isn't easy and it isn't cheap. At the same time, though, having a hobby or interest like photography, or any art form, really, isn't cheap either. Painters need a constant supply of expensive items; sketch artists need to buy the right kinds of pencils with specific kinds of lead, as well as sketch pads and other media; craft artists or people who make hand-made jewelry are

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Well, I finally did it, I created a Facebook page for DIGImmortal Photo. I'm not a big social media kinda guy. I'm far too private to feel comfortable in a world of "look at what I'm eating" or "I'm here at this place, come find me." However, regardless of my own personal use, or non-use, of such a site or service, there is no denying the powerhouse of a marketing tool that it is. There is an

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So, I mentioned on my Twitter feed a few days ago that I had a request from a client that put me a little out of my comfort zone. Some people might think I'm a pansy for this, but basically, the client (actually, the clients PR agent) requested that I hand over a few select images the night of the job, immediately following the shoot. Now, for me, I follow the concept of "get it right

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Just a quick update, I know things have been slow here on the blog. This was a very busy weekend for me, photographically, and now I find myself staring down a long list of projects that need editing. This weekend I completed 4 shoots, 2 of which really kicked my ass. Needless to say I'm exhausted, especially since I was running all over NJ and fighting the clock the entire time. Gear

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Some people like their schedules and their daily tasks to be well planned and calculated. They like to know exactly what they're in store for well ahead of time and need to follow their dialy outline with robot-like rigidity. I'm not one of those people. I was at work one day, doing what I do. What I do, mostly consists of a little bit of what I'm supposed to be doing and a little bit of what I

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Just wanted to let everyone know that David Ziser mentioned my review of Captured By The Light on his blog yesterday. I'm glad he enjoyed what I had to say about his book as much as I enjoyed reading it. It's nice to see my name and my blog mentioned outside of places that I post the links myself. Everyone go on over and check out the shout-out he gave me, and while you're there, subscribe to his

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This is the first of a few new reviews of photography-related items that I plan on writing up. The first item on the list is David Ziser's Captured By The Light, which is easily one of the best, most comprehensive books on wedding photography I've ever read. I had my very first wedding job coming up and I knew I was going to need help. The main reason should be obvious: concert photography is

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(I am completely aware that the photo I used for this has nothing to do with the actual topic of this post. But it's certainly pretty, innit?) You've probably seen dual monitor setups in movies and TV shows and thought it would be pretty cool to use 2 monitors on one computer. Oftentimes it'll be a scene with some nerdy gamer-type locked in a basement with a bag of Funions and a case of Mt.

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Every artist is probably familiar with hitting a wall at times. Lots of us hit what I refer to as "Winter Funk." It's basically what happens when the conditions around you are less than ideal for going out and creating new things. For me, and for a lot of other photographers, this tends to happen in the winter. Maybe it's the lack of sunlight, or maybe it's just that we'd rather not freeze our

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If you are expecting an Art of Manliness post, you're in the wrong place. I've known Mike Grosshandler of The Velmas for quite a while now. We met via the internet back around 2004-ish when we were giving The Velmas coverage in Paragon Music Magazine. One very big thing that we (Lisa and Myself, and Mike) had in common was our devout love for Type O Negative. We'd share stories of seeing them

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No, no, it's not a new Al Pacino movie. I was recently asked to photograph a new perfume that PromGirl put up for sale on their website. It's the company's official scent which it describes as such: The official perfume from PromGirl is a signature scent for every girl! It 's a fun and flirty fragrance that will compliment your prom look perfectly. PromGirl perfume is light

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... for yourself, but not for me. I've been in touch with this band called American Fangs ever since I shot them a few months back at a private party. They're a bunch of really cool guys from Texas who make some really great Alternative Rock, with a splash on Punk thrown in. What's funny is that all of our correspondences have been through Twitter, so at least this time around I got to find

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Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking, and rethinking, regarding my approach to business and marketing. There has to be more opportunity out there for more steady work, but it's very hard to find. On top of that, living just outside of NYC puts me at a great disadvantage at times. There are lots of chances for work in the City, but the problem lies in the over-saturated market. I keep going

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(Warning: This post is quite a ramble, and it's very photo-heavy) WHEW! Finally, a year later from the start of my 365 project, I'm done. I made it out alive, but most importantly to me, I made it through the whole project without ever once missing a day or cheating in any sense. It's probably one of the hardest photo challenges I've ever had. It was also simultaneously the longest year of my

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Sometimes you get what you ask for, sometimes you don't. Other times you get more, even though it may be different from what you expected. I had been in kind of a slump for a while now. Lots of "things" have been getting in my way and my day-to-day was getting unbearably frustrating. I continued doing what I had to do but it was really starting to wear me down. Then one day a couple of weeks

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Been sitting on this post for a while now. Got it started and wasn't able to finish it and get it up. Enjoy! I've known NJ native and Ibanez Guitar endorser Steve Bello since 2003 when he first contacted me at Paragon Music Magazine asking if we'd be interested in checking out his new album. We've been good friends ever since and I've been lucky enough to hear and see his music evolve over the

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I've been friends with the guys in Swashbuckle for years now and this April they asked me to shoot their promo photos for the upcoming album Crime Always Pays. Always up for a good time with some friends I headed down to central NJ with a bag full of lights. I got to Commodore Redrum's house to find a game of Battleship set up on the table in the basement. We knocked out a few photos of the

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Last weekend (7/25/10) Fear Factory returned to Irving Plaza in New York City for the first time in a while. I was lucky enough to be in the photo pit for this amazing performance. The chemistry between Dino and Burton is undeniable and with the incredible rhythm section of Byron Stroud (bass) and Gene Hoglan (drums) they are a force to be reckoned with. Opening with the title track from their

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We all have various sites and blogs that we check daily. The internet has become more about routine these days than discovery. Let's face it, when most of us were younger and the internet was still fresh and relatively new, we spent more time finding new sites than we did revisiting ones we already knew about. The world wide web was wide and fresh with info. Nowadays though, through syndication

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So since my last blog post about Peter Steele I haven't been able to whip up any new writing. I wanted to stay on a more frequent blogging schedule this year, but it's hard. I'm trying some new things now and hopefully I can deliver more content, quality content, more frequently. But, it would be very wrong of me to continue on from this point and not acknowledge 2 more great losses felt by the

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Wow, 2010 has turned into a lot of death. Between the earthquakes and people in my every day life, I've already heard of more deaths than I can count since January. But there was one I was not prepared for. (this might get long, just warning you) Peter Steele of Type O Negative left this world yesterday, at the young age of 48. Everyone has their own beliefs, some believe in an afterlife,

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Yesterday the overlapping worlds of photography and music got some very sad news. Legendary Rock and Roll photographer Jim Marshall died in his sleep. For anyone who is into Rock music and/or photography, even if you didn't know this man's name, you knew his work. His iconic images included those of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, and many more. I will have to admit that I wasn't as

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If you've been following my blog for a while, then you remember when I posted about the band Unrequited that came by DIGImmortal Photo's studio last year for a photo shoot. You can see those photos here. At the time of that shoot we had tried taking some video of lead guitarist/vocalist Nick Vallese performing an acoustic version of their song "Black & White" - The video didn't pan out very

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This shot was my 365 photo for yesterday, March 11, 2010. This project has been tough and there are days/nights where I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to complete the task for the day. Last night on my way out of the house I noticed this soda can laying in the curb by my car. It hadn't been there all week, yet it looked like it'd been there for a year. It was crunched, dirty, rusty in

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I took this shot last night for my ongoing 365 Project. This isn't the first time I've done a shot with this same kind of setup, and since people have asked in the past how I get shots like this, I thought I'd give a quick lesson on how something like this can be done. Now, for the more advanced photographers out there this isn't really anything you haven't already done, but since

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Driving home from work today I had 2 things on my mind: Coming up with a new blog entry and listening to some kick ass music. I make it a point to regularly mention that I got my start in photography by shooting concerts for my own music magazine. Partially because I want to continue to plug Paragon Music Magazine (www.paragonmag.com) and partially because it's the area of photography that I

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Well, I had said back in the first blog entry for the year that 2010 would bring some changes to the way I do things, and one of the most important things I needed to work on was the layout of the site and the color scheme. When I started DIGImmortal Photo, it was geared 99% to bands and the music industry. I pretty much only had photos of musicians in my galleries, so the dark colors fit

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We're in the middle of a massive snow storm here on the East Coast of the country and a lot of businesses took the day off. Even so, that doesn't mean that you can't get something done, right? I finally took the opportunity to go through the photos from the trip that I had mentioned a few posts ago. I decided that while I like all of the photos, they don't all need to be shown on my site. I

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So I'm gradually getting caught up on the massive backlog of work and different projects that have been keeping me from seeming very productive lately. But I have still managed to stay on schedule with my 365 project. It's really a relief because when I started it I was worried about how long I'd actually be able to see it through. It's hard to be artistic every single day, and I wasn't going to

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After a nice Friday and Saturday out of town last weekend, which I posted about in my last entry, I was absolutely planning on writing a follow-up blog entry and sharing some photos from a snow-covered mountaintop and the view that comes with it. However the powers of the Universe had something else in mind for me. I get back late Saturday night and didn't know what would await me the next day.

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Yesterday was the birthday of the future Mrs. DIGImmortal, so we decided to take a small trip. We're nature people, so the mountains in the Winter was a no-brainer. Unfortunately we're not skiiers, which kind of singles you out in a ski resort kinda town, especially when the only thing to do at night is go out and get plastered. Actually, it seems to me that there are 2 things that people do at

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So I'm finally getting to follow up my New Year's Eve post. I promised I'd work on updating this thing much more often, so this is part of my attempt at refocusing my energies in 2010. You'll have to excuse me if from time to time I repeat myself or just ramble. I want to make this whole social networking thing work for me this year, so I'm going to be doing a lot of stumbling at first.Anyway,

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So, this is it for 2009, and good riddance to such an awful year. But now isn't the time to air our grievances with what has passed, it's time to look to the future and try to expect the best. I want to take this time to thank everyone who has read this blog through the course of this year and who has followed me on Twitter. The online community is great because it can bring people together from

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IntroThis isn't going to be an easy entry for me to write, nor will it be very short. All I ask is that if you enjoy any aspects of my photography, whether it's my concert work, still life, nature, anything, please read this. This isn't going to be me trying to get you to buy anything or support a cause or any of that. This post is a page right out of my life and I've torn it right from my heart

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I've been involved with a wildlife rehabilitation facility for about 2 years now. Animals, whether domesticated or wild, are very close to my heart. I started volunteering cleaning out a raccoon enclosure and feeding them. It was by far the most hands-on I've ever been with an animal of that kind. Everyone is afraid of raccoons, and reasonably so when you consider the risks, but it didn't matter

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It's been a while since I updated this blog with anything pretty or useful. Things have been going 100MPH around here, I just wish I knew which highway I was on.A few weeks ago we took a trip out to Connecticut and stopped at Rock Neck Park for about 2 hours while killing some time in our travels. There is something so liberating about nature photography. Even though you feel pressure to "get the

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I know it's been a while since I've put anything up here, life has been in the way. I've been busy with some personal things, as well as some charity photography I've been doing for a local cat shelter that I volunteer at. All this leaves very little time to keep up with blogging.However I wanted to let you all know that I've started a 365 Photo project to keep the creative juices flowing. The

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Well, not really. Not even close; but when you have a bike with a model name like Vulcan, you just kind of go with whatever catchy, nerdy phrase you that comes to mind.Anyway, down to the picure details:A friend of mine has this bike that I always hear about yet never see because he never takes it out when I see him and whenever I'm over at his place his garage is always closed. So I started

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Just a quick request to anyone reading this blog. I recently entered a few of my shots of Cradle of Filth guitarist Paul Allender into the Billboard Magazine "Ultimate Music Moment" Contest.While the main categories are awarded by a panel of judges, there is a Fan Favorite section where the public can vote. The winner will be published in Billboard Magazine and the Photo District News publication

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Sometimes we just gotta put what we feel down on paper. I prefer to put it down on pixels.The above image is the result of a few things. One of them being some personal struggles that started to manifest themselves into large mountains of frustration. Another being procrastination.When I originally got the idea in my head for the above photo, it looked very different in my mind. In fact the only

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Last weekend I had a great group of guys come over for some band portraits. They're Unrequited and they play pretty frequently in the Northern NJ (Bergen County) area.They're still in High School but they've got the professional chops and attitude that is needed these days. I see too many bands strive to be something but lack the discipline (and the thick skin) needed to make it in the music

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So after all these years of being a huge Black Sabbath fan, I finally get my chance to photograph them live. Well, technically it's not Black Sabbath, but technically it is. It's actually Heaven and Hell, the name that they go by when they tour with Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice. It doesn't matter to me what you call them, if it's got Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi, it's Black Sabbath one way

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Yeah, I know, anyone who has seen my writing over the years knows I hate "social networking sites" like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc...But like I've said already on those sites, you can't fight proven marketing techniques. You eventually should at least try them and see how they might help. This is true when you're not getting much attention or just want more than you've got.So I caved, again,

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Been doing some automotive photography recently. Thought I'd try my hand at photographing really large reflective objects. What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment.Quite a lesson in patience though. You would sometimes think a 3 hour photoshoot would be for a really picky client, or maybe some really big celebrity with lots of different looks and wardrobe changes. You don't typically think it

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Recently, I sent out a few dozen (probably few hundred) marketing emails to entice some local bands in my area to hire me for portraits and live shots. I got a few replies, which would probably count to more than a 1% response (that's a pretty great ratio, for those who never studied business). One of the first bands to contact me back was a local Fleetwood Mac tribute band, Meetwood Flack.As it

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If only their band name was plural, it would have been funnier. Oh well.Jet, the band that everyone knows for "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" has a new album out, and have been touring recently. On July 8 they hit up New York City and I got the chance to shoot them live. Unfortunately plans that I had been making to shoot them backstage fell through because of prior engagements, and I wasn't given

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Well, it took me long enough, but I finally got some time to write about the headliners of the Stimulate This! Tour that passed through Asbury Park, NJ back on July 15th, 2009.It was a fun night, and I was exctied because not only had I never shot Staind before, but it was also my first time ever seeing them live. I've been a fan of their for a while now and just never had a chance to see them on

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As promised, here are some quick photos of Chevelle playing in NJ on the Stimulate This! Tour. I have to admit I always like their big single "Red" but never listened to much of their other music over the years. I must say I wasn't disappointed. They put on a quality live show and their music is really good. I have been missing out all these years.They did of course play the one song I knew by

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July 15, 2009 Shinedown came to Asbury Park, NJ with the Stimulate This! Tour which also featured Staind, Chevelle, Halestorm and Lo-Pro.Being the 4th time I've photographed the band I knew what to expect. Well, everything except one thing: during ".45" Aaron Lewis from Staind came out during the second half of the song. Obviously the crowd went nuts, and I grabbed a bunch of shots. You can see

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Welcome back. I'm currently in the middle of a DIY marketing campaign and wanted to share with you all one of the photos I'm using in this series of mailers. I also will discuss how it was done and why it was done the way it was.The Photo:Who and What:This is a friend of mine, he's a local designer that I work with pretty regularly at my job as a pre-press coordinator. He and his wife own and run

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Back in May a friend's band was on the Paganfest America 2009 tour. His pirate themed band Swashbuckle was opening the show in every city. From what I've heard, they did really well and got a lot of new fans and really got the crowds warmed up each night.I was able to grab some portraits with the 3 guys in the band right after their set. It was done in the lounge downstairs at the Blender

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Whew, this took long enough...I am finally able to record HD video with my camera when I shoot concerts. Originally my plan was to upload these videos to YouTube and in the description panel I would tell people to visit the gallery that goes with the video.I had been having some trouble finding a good way of editing my logo onto the videos for cheap. I thought I found the answer by upgrading to

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Well, since I feel like advetising this blog to get visitors is pointless unless there's something for people to come back for, I figured I'd make a quick list of the things you can expect to see here soon.Photos from a recent trip to both the Canadian and New York side of Niagara FallsFireworks from the Hudson River taken on the 4th of JulySome test shots I plan on taking using my new Darksphere

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Reposted from my Paragon Music Magazine Myspace Blog:So, a few months back I think I mentioned I'd have an announcement to make eventually. Or maybe I didn't say that and I'm remembering wrong. Anyway, I DO have an announcement and here it is:I had a chance to shoot a portrait session with Paul Allender of Cradle of Filth, a band I've been a fan of since I was 15, back in February of 2009 as

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Yep, I finally went and got myself a blog just for DIGImmortal Photo. As if I didn't already have enough to do all the time, I felt my plate wasn't quite full enough yet.Anyway, this is where people can follow my every... well... not my every move, most people know I hate that. Let's just say this is where I'll be posting news about upcoming shoots, samples of new work, and quite possibly some

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