We’re in Palo Alto for the holidays, staying with Jill’s folks. On the big day, with everyone gathered for the exchanging of gifts, I thought I would get my camera out. At that moment, I could visualize my battery in the charger back home. Unfortunately I couldn’t visualize where »
Today was the day of the open house at the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Wow, there were a lot of people there! You could get to see most floors but not everywhere on any floor. There was a lot o waiting at elevators. We left after looking round »
Wow! Just heard from one of the interior designers at the new Mott hospital; they need more prints & want to use almost all the photographs from my DVD: “We REALLY liked them”. »
Of course, I’ve always known that you can use a polarizer to darken the sky. When you are at right angles to the sun. And I knew something of how they could reduce reflections, as in windows or ponds. But I had never taken that to heart and thought »
As we were driving along I-94 from Lake Michigan today, I looked at a stand of trees, no idea if they were aspens, but they had that exposed, bright lower trunks look, and I thought how cool they looked, and I wondered if there is something built into us to appreciate that sight, or whether it’s because Ansel brought them to our attention.
I did this completely independent of the fact that an hour later we stopped at the Ella Sharp Museum, just S of Jackson, MI to look at a special exhibition of Ansel Adams prints, including 2 different aspen studies. »
There had been talk the last week or so that they would need a few more images after all for the new Mott and I heard today that they wanted to make second prints of my 4 images. Still sounds good to me. Patrick (Young) is doing the printing, using Epson Premium Lustre (that’s for prints of photographs; prints of reproductions of artwork are being done on Epson Enhanced Matte). The prints are in the range of 16 x 20 inch. »
I didn’t take any photos in May, except this one day when a dog came into our yard. I was having a late breakfast, reading the news, and I looked out the window and there was this dog just sitting on the lawn. And not moving. I ran upstairs, »
Heard today from Patrick (Young) that 4 of my photographs have been selected to be prints for the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Not entirely sure who did the actual selection; I know Patrick is handling the printing, and there is someone who owns a framing shop, and then there are two interior designers who work for UMHS. I had provided them 36 images on a DVD to select from. Considering how late I was getting into the selection process, having 4 selected is fabulous. »
Friday we braved the snow and headed out of Ann Arbor and were able to reach Kalamazoo for dinner, and on to the hotel in Paw Paw without incident. Next day we were braving lake-effect snow and still made it to the cafe in St. Joseph in good time. »