John Kester

ruggedly creative, innovatively handsome

August 12, 2010 • 5:27 pm 0

Your Inner Goddess Revealed

John Kester Photography presents:
Your Inner Goddess Revealed

Are you strong, impish, quirky, confident, sexy, shy or confident?

In your mind’s eye, is your Inner Goddess a super-hero with flowing hair bathed in sunlight or a seductress bound in leather and lace?

However you envision her, we can bring her to life right before your eyes.

Join John Kester and his team of creative visionaries on September 18 for Your Inner Goddess Revealed.

Your session includes:

Hair and makeup artists to refine your look
A selection of wardrobe and accessories to complement your own wardrobe items
Styling consultation on wardrobe
Five Inner Goddess Shots chosen by you
One 8×10 print (additional prints available for purchase)

Your Inner Goddess Revealed photo session event registration: $150

Questions? Email me.

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July 11, 2010 • 8:03 pm 0

Fantasy High-Fashion Portrait Event

That’s right, it’s here Jacksonville — your opportunity to be a supermodel in your own conceptual portrait session!

On August 7th, 2010 starting at 11am John Kester and his team will transform you into a high-fashion superstar! Professional makeup, styling and portrait photography will be provided. Bring your own crazy high-fashion style or let the team build one for you — as mild or wild as you want. Many outfits will be available! A photo-lab printed Kodak Endura 8×10 print of your fashion makeover is included in the package along with up to 5 retouched full-resolution digital files from the photoshoot. Expect nothing less than amazing results.

Registration for this event is only $100 per person. To register simply click the Buy Now link below and you’ll be transferred to PayPal. Please include your name and contact information when you register or send me and email separately at johnmkester [at] gmail.com and I’ll provide you with final location details and updates.

Deadline to register is August 1!

Any questions let me know, and I can’t wait to see you at the event! Join the discussion on Facebook here.

Filed under: john kester, photography, event, fashion, Jacksonville, john kester, MUA, photography, photos, portrait, registration, style

July 7, 2010 • 11:31 pm 0

New Rates!

Go to http://john-kester.com to view new summer rates. I also have a more detailed breakdown to send out. VERY COMPETITIVE! If you want a conceptual portrait session, a family session or headshot quickie, now is the time! Many new projects on the horizon. I’m doing trades for a few of my art projects, feel free to mail me for more info on those as well. johnmkester [at] gmail.com.

In other news, be sure to join my facebook group here if you haven’t yet.

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June 21, 2009 • 9:23 pm 0

my flickr site

One more update: over the past few weeks I’ve been seriously updating new content on my Flickr site. The timestamps on the images are a few weeks in the past, so you may have to dig around to find it. One of the shoots was from a trip to Hannah Park. It was an experiment in pushing my style and trying something a little different. The other was from a ‘tradtional’ pin-up shoot.

I’m by no means abandoning my style or my layered art, but instead I’m playing with some new techniques and hopefully capturing some interesting, evocative imagery along the way. Check out the angel-wings set, we had a blast working on it!

(Log-in to flickr to see all my work)

Most of the images are for sale on ImageKind as traditional prints. If you’re interested in a special size or technique I can usually accomdate these requests, just shoot me an email. Thanks!

Filed under: art, john kester, art, Jacksonville, john kester

April 20, 2009 • 7:52 pm 0

Have Fun!

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I do my best work when I’m having fun, playing. When those happy accidents have a warm environment to breed in. When I don’t filter things. When syntax takes a backseat to design. Any elevated individual can recognize the nature of humans to deliver serious, and serious quality goodies in a fun, playful environment. Anything else is hackery.

Filed under: art, john kester

April 5, 2009 • 10:00 pm 0

Collaboration with rejcel of rejcel.com

Not that it hasn’t been on my mind before, but not until after seeing Justin of Rule29 Creative speak at a local AIGA event did I start assuaging the collaborative beast in me. What I really mean here transcends collaboration and moves more into the spectrum of sharing ideas voraciously…without an ownership flinch if someone else uses one of mine.

So, I’m deviating from my standard deviation, and have asked rejcel (as seen in this on this wonderful site) to be part of an artist-meets-artist collaboration. Rejcel (who assembled her first lawnmower at age 2), is an artist that I respect in Jacksonville. Not to knock Jacksonville (again), but I’m over your infant-steps towards modernism, caught somewhere between a bead and a necklace. I have many really wonderful friends that are amazingly talented, however. I’m happy and enthusiastic to see what rejcel and I can create in her first time out from behind the camera.

In other news, remind me to start writing these in stream-of-consciousness as opposed to whatever pseudo-reality thing I’m up to now.

Filed under: art, john kester, links, AIGA, art, collaboration, jacksonville art walk, perverse, photography, rejcel, rule29, sexy

April 2, 2009 • 10:05 pm 0

Art Walk – Pictures

As a follow-up, I wanted to thank all of you for the fantastic emails regarding yesterday. The last several times I’ve shown work out, my work was quite different from Wednesday, and I appreciate hearing the comments and viewpoints from everyone that took the time to email me (as well as those in person)! It’s overwhelming in a good way, thanks much. And to Melissa: yes, following your passion, and finding that passion seems like the most important sometimes…because it is! Anything that makes you truly happy, even if for just a moment, can’t be a bad thing! I’m glad your experience with my work touched you in such a personal way.

I welcome any other questions or comments.

Here are a few photos from early in the evening from Marcia! I’ll update this post with more as they trickle in from anyone else who sends me photos and wants me to post them. Thanks!

: Am I Real?

: Close-up Intensity

: Talking about new work.

: Friends

: Magnets, sign by Marcia

: Several small one-of-a-kinds

Filed under: art, john kester, April, art show, art walk, candid, Jacksonville, photos

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If you'd like to commission a piece, schedule a shoot, or engage in random ranting, email me at john.m.kester [at] gmail.com