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 (22)
MagikUnicorn
M a r v e l o u s
shadownet
I thought this was a photograph at first, than I read where you did the scene in Vue! Excellent
geirla
fooled me too. Thought it was a picture.
tcombs
wow, this is wonderful!
e-brink
Brilliant, Jeremy! I can sense the breeze off the water.
Django
Amazing realism....!!!!
westryde
Beautiful render
waldodessa
This is a killer, wondeful work Leremy!
billcody
Great landscape render! Very tranquil atmosphere!
Schnuck
Very beautiful mood!!!
2Mylent
Très très réaliste, fabuleux! Avant de voir comment avait été faite l'image, j'ai cru que c'était une photo! 100/10 :)
FCLittle
Excellent work, jeremy....very serene....
Miska7
Great scene and atmosphere. Kenwas does make it look easy, but we know different. Excellent work!
krickerd
Beautiful Scene
Cosme..D..Churruca
wonderful scene!
Issemissen
Breathtaking. Now it's you who have been lurking around my neighbourhoods, cause this could be a shot taken at the place where I just spent a lazy week. ;)
FrenchKiss
This looks fantastic, Jeremy! Very Ken-like! :)
nikita_s_cold
What are you talking about? This is great! I thought it was a photo from the thumbnail, but when I saw it was Vue, I clicked on it...and you know what? It still feels like a photo. Excellent work, mister. I think you fully succeeded. I don't know who Ken is but you've done yourself well here. Indeed. :)
Rutra
This is beautiful. Maybe you should increase the anti-alias in the render settings, as there are some jaggies here and there. In the foreground plants maybe you also need to increase the number of polygons in the plant editor, to further get rid of the jaggies. The water looks very nice.
blankfrancine
Beautiful landscape!
Jilly
Now this is a fav!
ISSE
Looks real