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 (30)
porsimo
Very nice! Great lighting and composition and I wouldn't even noticed the absence of the aircrew if you wouldn't have mentioned it ;) The dorsal gunner could have pointed his gun towards the fighter though, but that's a minor thing. Excellent work.
Crabbycabby
Fantastic narrative and creation. I don't think the missing aircrew matters that much as sometimes they can ruin the illusion by not looking real.
ragouc
Very good light and WWII scene
geirla
Very nice! Yeah, like the others, I didn't notice the lack of air crew.
RG19
Most impressive historical imagery!!!
Spacer_01
Most agreed! When I saw the render I was awed by how photorealistic the aircraft look. I thought at first it was a photo. I too totally missed noticing a lack of crew. Given the distance and lighting, the crew would've been very tiny details at best, something you'd really have to be trying to look for. ;) Really nice history bite to go with the render. Is a shame software likes to crash, just when we're wanting to put the finishing touch on things. I should know, I have plenty of it happening here too. The one thing that kinda works is saving the project before putting it to render.
alKhall
Awesome render, and thnx for the history info.. :0)
mininessie
great one Jeremy!!!!
necrophage
cool scene - great texture detail!
decadence
Wonderful image and historical info!
Ravyns
Good One Jeremy!! I didn't notice the missing crew either..
Gisela
Very good!
Rainastorm
Very cool....debbielove will love it!
debbielove
Yes, Debbielove does! It's completely WAY COOL! The He111 looks amazing..... Quality! Rob.
waldodessa
Nice one Jeremy! Excellent...
wingnut55
very good work, realistic light and colours.
FloydianSlip
Excellent work! Love the sky. :)
grafikeer
Oh the horrors of system crashes...been there,done that!I too hadn't noticed the missing crew at first,the scene commands your full attention.The clouds are amazing(a photo on 2D plane?),and the planes are very realistic.Great overall composition too!Have you thought of a multi-pass render?This would allow you to add to the foreground plane(the crew etc.),and keep it as a seperate file to save processing power.Of course, you would need a program such as Photoshop to combine the images in layers!Daz has a great tutorial in their Bryce section on how to do this...it may help!Great render!
M2A
Excellent army planes realization. It looks very fine.
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
shingleboot
Very realistic looking image, photo quality work
Django
Ahhh the Battle of Britain....fine Pic on a dirty piece of war
Tryphon
Jeremy, jeremy, jeremy... this is simply fabulous, I'm flabbergasted! Very impressed, speachles. And as many have allready mentionned; if you handn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have missed the AWOL crew. Fantastic composition! Well done... Bravo!
FrenchKiss
Excellent! Looks like a photo!
Steeleyes101
I know bout files crashing doing the creation of a work, but no matter this is outstnding work here Bravo and hats off to ya for this one
NefariousDrO
I love that title! You're right, while the Spitfire got the glory, the Hurricane did the yeoman's job to be sure. Nice scene to illustrate that frightening battle.
NetWorthy
Good for you Jeremy, wonderful image! You are correct: The scrappy little Hurricanes didn't get near the press they should have since the Spitfires were decidedly more photogenic and glamorous. The Spits were lovely and better performers, but the BoB would not have been won without the workhorse 'Canes...
bob4artist
Nice. I like this one. Good history too. All you hear about is the Spitfire. - Bob
ontar1
Impressive scene and planes, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kanaa
This looks so realistic!!! I built a plastic model of that heinkel once, one of the most beautiful planes I know of (Not it's mission, though...) Afabulous piece of historical imagery!