This makes about 750 pictures so far at Friends University this week.
Category: Photo gallery
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There’a a guest choreographer, Shawn Stevens, working with the students at Friends University this week, and I hope to get out there to snap a few pictures each day. ((By “a few,” I mean about 200 or so. Digital “film” is dangerously cheap. I shot 250 frames in a little more than a half-hour this afternoon.))
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It’s past time to mow the lawn, but I’m not complaining
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This month’s token cute kid picture: the ring-bear bearer.
Still more pictures
I’ve uploaded several galleries of my old pictures to the new server:
Dance photography
Costume Con 2007
SCA costuming
Pennsic War XXVII
Music photography
Some of these pages go back ten years, so the formatting is primitive and the pictures are sized for 14.4k dial-up connections.
I also uploaded The True History of the Dumbek for those who enjoy mathematical horror stories.
More pictures
I recently looked at various picture gallery plugins for WordPress. None of them were satisfactory. Therefore, I’ve established a gallery independent of my weblogs. The software I’m using, by a curious coincidence, is Gallery. Thus far, it works pretty well; I haven’t yet yelled at the computer. I’ve uploaded a selection of this year’s Winfield pictures for starters. There will be albums of dance and botanical pictures in the near future, and other kinds of subjects as well.
Update: I’ve added a selection of my old black-and-white SCA pictures.
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Before the wedding.
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Spiritual Life Center chapel.
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There’s something odd about those trees.
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Bonus picture
More HDR fun at Botanica. Just two exposures this time, but there are both clouds in the sky and detail in the shadows.
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I don’t know what this is, either. I would guess from the inflorescence that it’s in the Euphorbia family.
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I’ve never been able to positively identify this. It’s either an aster or a close relative (my best guess would be a species of Senecio), but there’s nothing quite like it mentioned in any of my books on Kansas wildflowers. This is surprising, because it’s quite common around here. Normally the plants grow two or three feet tall, but if they are in a spot that periodically gets mown, they’ll form a mat an inch or two high, such as the plant pictured.
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I don’t know which is more depressing: the fact that about half the buildings I passed downtown on my way home from Mass today had been vandalized this weekend, or that the vandals did such a perfunctory job. Don’t they take any pride in their work?
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You can expect to see more botanical pictures than usual for the next few weeks. We’re probably about a month away from the first hard freeze of the winter here, and after that it will be around March before there is good reason to take my camera to a garden again.
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Cobwebs.
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My well-used 4×5 Crown Graphic. I think I paid $125 for the body and $75 for the lens. Cheap though the outfit is, it is capable of superb results. For sheer quality, nothing beats large format:
For some kinds of photography, this is absolutely true, and if I were primarily a landscape photographer, my principal tool would be the Graphic or perhaps a 4×5 field camera with more movements. The large negative also makes contact-printing processes such as cyanotypes possible. The downside is that large format photography is slow in every way. If you want to catch dancers in mid-air during rehearsal, you need fast film in a quick-focusing camera with a fast lens (or a digital SLR that performs well at high ISOs), and you need to take a lot of pictures quickly. Even so, I have taken good studio shots of dancers with the Crown Graphic.