Jack Brady
Shadows Dancing
Chapel Hill, NC this February 1, 2018
Visuals that have manifested before me and have been captured by the click of my cameras shutter to share.
Many of us find peace and serenity when we are immersed in the beauty of Nature. Whether alone in the deep forest, lying on the sand staring up at the ever changing clouds before you, or perched on a rock beside a cascade of water falling from high above, Nature is Alive!
To present before you scenes from Nature that elicited an emotion at the moment in time before me is my mission, and the camera is my tool of choice.
Fortunate to have traveled the World, always with my camera at my side, has been one of the gifts in my life. Whether on a business trip, or a true adventure with no agenda other than to immerse myself in the beauty of a given topography, the camera is how I try to convey what I felt, and to hopefully elicit a like feeling within you.
As you may notice during a review of my images found here, I am particularly drawn to Clouds, the Sea and Shadows. The rays cast by the sun through the clouds at sea after a storm or in a remote wilderness location are just one of the beauties of Nature I feel we all can sense and appreciate. The flow of water across the earth, as a creek in the forest or the falls from on high, here you can sense not only the interplay of light in the scene but possibly hear the sound of the water as it trickles or falls before you.
Yet there are times where just a shadow cast upon a wall in a room gives a sense of peace to each of us, if we just stop for a moment and choose to live in the beauty of that instant.
Such is my inspiration to share just a little of what I have seen with each of you. I hope my efforts solicit a hunger within yourself to Explore.
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"Seeking, To Be Found" is a complimation of my words expressing Moments in Life shared with a complimenting image.
My poetry and images used to be part of shadowsdancing.com.
This compilation was published in March, 2021 and can now be found for review or purchase at:
https://seekingtobefound.com
Of some of my writings I hope you have experienced the same emotion that generated the need to write of it, and of others I sincerely pray you have never felt and have no idea what I am writing about.
Yes, an enigma that will only be revealed by your reading. I hope many poems will bring some joy, a few may bring a tear, others bewilderment.
What you feel will be dependent upon what you have experienced in your life, and just how successful my attempt to express a feeling was worth the energy to bring the emotion to works of words.
Of all that I have been able to bring from within myself and express for all to see, there is one that I feel must be felt and lived by all of us in order to understand the Human Experience, “Ashes”©.
In closing, thank you for what time you spend here with me and my works.
I welcome your thoughts, comments and prayers.
© Copyright Jack Brady, Digital Technology Resources Inc., All rights reserved.
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For Folks interested in my specific digital technology experience:
From 1983– January 2004, here are a few highlights:
Southeastern Digital Images, Inc. & C/Food Software Division, Atlanta, GA
President/Founder of a Value Added Reseller (VAR), Software Developer focused on the CG, 3-D Animation, Sim/VR/AR, Photo and Pre-press markets primarily based on the Silicon Graphis Super Computer/Cray Super Computer platform.
Directed Sales, evaluated new 3rd party products and managed all aspect of the business. In addition to the software I developed, SDII represented a variety of third party hardware and software products focused at the PC and Unix/SGI professional graphics for motion picture, broadcast, prepress, design markets and research. Business consistently generated after tax profits exceeding 25% on multimillion-dollar annual sales.
Conceived of new products, directed C++ programming and development, designed user interface and profitability marketed proprietary software controlling digital film recorders and high resolution scanners for the Silicon Graphics/Cray Irix OS platform. Clients included Tri-Star Pictures, Columbia Pictures, CIA, FBI, USA Military, Mayo Clinic, Mercedes Benz in Germany, IBM and numerous animators/photographers world wide.
Designed, manufactured and marketed my proprietary FCC approved PC that was optimized for Computer Graphics, 3-D Animation, Photographic and Prepress applications.
Consulted for hardware and software firms including Intel, Truevision, AT&T/GSL, Silicon Graphics Inc., Kodak Digital, Scitex, Thomson Digital, Nikon, Lentech- lenticular 3D camera, Hasselblad, Pixar, and Eikonics in developing the first commercially available digital camera, and marketing their products.
Only VAR awarded an exclusive sales territory (eight Southeastern states) by Thomson Digital Images for their Explore 3D Animation and design software, a leading animation and prepress program run on the Silicon Graphics Inc Super Computer platform. Explore software cost started at $120,000 per user seat plus SGI hardware. That same software today has morphed into Autocad's "Maya" and is available for a fraction of the cost of what it came from.
Frequent guest lecturer at GA Tech School of Visual Computing, PhD candidates, and SCAD in Savannah.
Silicon Graphics Inc. Authorized Power Series VAR and Software Developer.
PS: Please note that all images on the shadowsdancing.com are displayed as only 72dpi and only 8 bits deep. In reality, the actual images I print from are at least 300 dpi and 16 bits, thus the printed image looks dramatically better than what is able to be displayed here on my web site.