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Welcome to J R Compton dot com
American White Pelican Turning to Land - from my Birder's Journal
I am a photographer, writer, editor, art critic, organizer, poet, curator, promoter and website producer. Among other things.
I have been a Staff Photographer for several newspapers, photojournalist, typesetter, public 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. Check out my resume [link below] for most of them. But in the last five years plus, I've kept the same old ones.
Illustrators Dan Hubig & Andy Poyner at The Austin Sun in 1975-76
In March 2009 I began a page of photographs I shot at The Austin Sun in 1975 & 76. I keep adding to it.
My photographs have been published in dozens of publications and exhibited in more than 90 art exhibitions.
I don't like to do the same thing for very long, so I don't. I'm easily bored but never without something interesting to do. But I keep coming back to making photographs — especially of birds and art, and writing, editing, designing and publishing — community-based publications (including this one), although the mediums keep changing.
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The Trinity — all photographs on this site copyrighted by J R Compton.
All Rights Reserved. Collection Matt KaplinskyBirds
J R's Amateur Birder's Journal is updated almost every day in a personal bird journal documenting Dallas' White Rock Lake and other places, including west to the Grand Canyon, south to The Lower Rio Grande Valley, and north to Colorado, among other directions. Begun in June 2006, the journal is indexed here, but the current month's journal is always here.
There's also a bibliography of useful books, a links page to other lake and bird and other sites and a Feedback page, a readers' bird I.D page and dozens of others linked from the index.
The Meta Index links things like this 2008 Winter Solstice Celebration.
DallasArtsRevue includes — in its more than twelve 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 includes some of my more recent photographs.
I'm the editor, publisher and writer. It's the main reason I'm still here.
Photographs
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 combined poetry and photographs many years ago when websites with pictures loaded much more slowly than they do now, so the pictures were smaller.
Rainbow Warrior at Trailer Park Village
Websites
I do websites besides this one, huge ones for Joel Cooner Gallery and DallasArtsRevue, but they're a lot of trouble, so I do 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, so I don't really need the hassle. My sites are fairly simple. I'm not a great technician, and I believe that technology serves some website clients well.
The problem with websites is that putting them up is just the beginning. Nobody returns to sites that don't constantly add energy by updating what is already there and adding to it. All that takes a lot of work, and website owners either have to do it themselves or pay somebody else to.
I do, however, offer free advice for people who want 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 Host, Domain Registration and the very important and difficult to come by information about How to Change Web Hosts, along with How to Promote Your Website, something most website owners do not do.
Four Egrets Guard as Three Pelicans Catch Dinner - February 2009
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
The Clare Family Reunion in Estes Park, Colorado in early August 2008
The Clare Family Story - my mother's family story
Back Home in Indiana - my father, John T. Compton's Story
The Ballad of Harold & Emily - my mother's parents' story
The Fire - my father's parents story
Blogs
ThEdblog - As the editor of DallasArtsRevue I do a blog, often but not every day. It used to be illustrated with work by DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members, lately it's been my own strange work in a new series that's neither bird nor art related, though it may be art.
The blog I put the most energy into is my Amateur Birder's Journal that shows & tells about birds at White Rock Lake, The Texas Gulf Coast, Rogers Rehabilitation, various zoos, The Grand Canyon, New Mexico, Colorado and back home to White Rock Lake, which gets most of this action, since it's just a couple miles from my crumbling home.
Bloggish in a photographic way is my DallasArtsRevue supporting (boy, howdy!) members page of usually very recent photographs, often of very personal images.
I also cover DallasArtsRevue exhibitions in blog style. There are huge, all in one, and continuously popular pages for Fierce and The Winter Show, and there will be one for our next, yet-to-be adequately named, membership show at the Bath House Cultural Center in January 2010.
Then there's Art Here Lately, which does art here lately.
And there may be one or two more.
I'm on PhaseBuch at the moment, and although it looks like fun and I can more or less directly email with people I know and like but don't usually communicate directly with. But I don't like it because they won't let me use my real name, while they let many of my friends do that, and I wonder whether I need yet another frigging blog.
Resume
My full resume
The shows my photographs were in
Exhibitions I've produced and
My logo designs.
My latest email address is always on this site's Contact page.
