kjer stands for "Kansas Jeremy." Yahoo screwed up things and added the rest. My good grrrl's name is "Julie Jane Russell Because She Ain't No Jack" but we just call her Julie and a host of nicknames (Mz. Demeanor, Land Shark, God Damn it!, etc.) BIO Born in North Dakota, learned to talk in Texas, early elementary years in southern Michigan near Lake Huron, brief time in Miami Beach (during WWII), back to Michigan. Parents divorced and we moved back to northcentral Kansas, which became my adopted home (although folks were 4th or 5th generation Kansans). At 18, joined USAF and served a year in Korea (after the cease-fire) and two in southern Japan; however, the only foreign country I served in was pre-Civil Rights movement Gulf Coast Mississippi! :) My Air Force job was control tower operator, then later worked in headquarters administration. Returned to Kansas, got married to wife number 1 and got a college degree (or two plus) and taught public school (8th Grade English) for 4 years. Adopted two mixed-race children (girl and boy). Spent a year ill and unemployed then began working for 25 years with mentally and multiply challenged folks in State institutions. Divorced after 25 years (amicably), endured 4 years of bachelorhood, then married wife Number 2. (Both fine women, by the way.) Retired for five years then got a part-time college instructor position, teaching Freshmen how to write at the college level for another five years, then retired a second time. Still with wife No. 2.
My first identity was as an artist. Later, also became a writer. Wrote about about nine multi-volumed science-fantasy novel manuscripts. Was given very encouraging rejections by editiors, but just never seemed to be what met their publishing needs. Gave up art (pastel pencils and fine-line ink drawings, mostly) for about 10 years due to operations on wrists that messed up coordination in fingers and created involuntary releases of my grasp. (It's very discouraging to spent 40 hours on a fine-line ink drawing only to drop the pen on it in the last hour or two.) Finally decided that avenue of expression was no longer viable for me and concentrated by creative efforts into writing. Then, about four years ago, I discovered the worlds of Bryce, Poser, and Vue and have been able to go back to my first love; art.
My association with Renderosity has been wonderful. In my gallery I get to combine both my creative loves: writing and art. I appreciate very much the responses and comments of viewers and thank those special few who keep comming back to my gallery. Interests in no particular order: 3D Graphic arts, writing (poetry and novels), photography, science-fiction and fantasy, science in general, astronomy (especially Mars and extra solar planets), ecology.
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Comments (13)
Joekrick
Everything about this story and scene rocks! Keep up with Bryce,it just gets better and better Trust me!
SunsetHunter
Cool image and nicely rendered! I really enjoyed the background story, too!
evinrude
Nice pic. I really like your desert terrain.
VRG
I really like this, but just feel that your atmosphere is too bright for Titan. It is quite far from the sun and from what I read is a lot darker, close and forboding. Good job, though.
Legion1
cool pic and story
frogdot
great feeling of desolation. Would be a hard life living there.
adrian3Dart
Great scene! Like the model and red terrain. Well Done.
Burpee
Excellent! Love the ground blur and the feeling of desolation!
Django
Grins, i went about some Mars images and animations the same way ...results where fine tho since i got some good DEM Data from the web. Works good for flyovers but lack detail when it comes to surface pictures.well done by the way ;) Dj
RETIRED
Way cool!!. Love the terrain and the ship description. I will have to take exception to VRG's comments re lighting tho. From what I have read the moon collects a lot of reflected light & so would be brighter than say phobos or any other hard rock moon around a rock surfaced planet. On the other hand I and my monitor are getting old so the more light the better I can see the work. :-). Thanks for another great project. Dwayne
zfigure7
I would some that they probably need a truck load of food supplies, since this looked like a vast wasteland for a big party... Excellent stuff!
ISSE
Nice planet,thanks to God I dont live there
NefariousDrO
Very cool! I can easily imagine this being really close to the method used to establish colonies like this. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Great story, great render.