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Bird of Paradise in My Mother's Garden - March 2008
Welcome to J R Compton dot com
I am a photographer, writer, editor, art critic, organizer, poet, curator, promoter and website creator. Among other things.
I have been a Staff Photographer for several newspapers, photojournalist, typesetter, radio and TV producer, milkman, Secret Film Courier in Viet Nam, Instructor of Photography and Publication Design for honors college classes, Yellow Cab Driver, Publisher of Underground Newspapers and a Night Watchman at a Massage Parlor. I used to collect jobs.
My photographs have been published in dozens of publications and exhibited in more than 80 art exhibitions.
I don't like to do the same thing for very long, so I don't, but I keep coming back to making photographs, writing, editing, designing and publishing — although the mediums keep changing.
Katharine Goeldner and Barritone Zeljko Lucic's in the Dallas Opera production of Verdi's Nabucco with costumes and sets designed by Dallas artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr. More opera photographs.
DallasArtsRevue includes — in its more than eleven hundred web pages — art, art stories, art criticism and news, views and reviews of, by and for the artists of Dallas, Texas, USA.
My DallasArtsRevue Supporting Member page always has some of my more recent photographs.
I'm the editor, publisher and CMFIC. It's the main reason I'm still here.
J R's Amateur Birder's Journal is updated nearly daily in a personal bird journal documenting Dallas' White Rock Lake, but also from our route west to the Grand Canyon and south to The Lower Rio Grande Valley. Begun in June 2006, the journal continues nearly every week day. It is indexed here. The current month's journal is always here.
There's also a bibliography of useful books, a links page to other lake and bird sites and a Feedback page, a bird I.D page and several others linked from the index.
Photograpphs
The Trinity — all photographs on this site copyrighted by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved.
The great love of my life is photography, and there are many photographs on this and my other sites.
Photographs are everywhere on this and my other sites.
Poemagraphics combine poetry and photographs.
Websites
I do websites, but they're a lot of trouble and I do fewer and fewer. I do good ones, sometimes great ones, but it's so difficult to get and keep website owners' attention and I have plenty else to do that I don't really need the hassle.
I do, however, offer some sage advice for people who want or need a website.
My Websites page lists the sites I've done and am still doing. There's a lot of variety there. And a page of My Prices.
What You Have to Do to Get Your Own Website includes what I (or your webbie does, will do, needs to do) plus major things that need doing that your webbie cannot do: info about your URL; your Web Host; some Warnings; how to organize your site; pictures; and Keywords
The I.S.P. page includes important info about Internet Service Providers, the very different Web Hosts, Domain & Registration and very important and difficult to come by information about How to Change Web Hosts and How to Promote Your Website.
Audience Participation at the 2007 Winter SolstiCelebration
Ideas
Spiritual — The Meta Index includes links to my photographic pages of SolstiCelebrations
images of personal and public magic,
my metaphysical and philosophical writings about intimacy and prayer,
a Meditation of the Five Ancient Elements, and
J R Compton's Cosmic Coping Kit of Metaphysical & Other Knowledge
Movies Reviewed — nearly one thousand movies reviewed from the big screen, DVDs and VHSs.
Family
Some of My Family's Forefathers – The Bullwackers
