Dear Marilyn,
Thank you for asking but remember to keep on topic! HaHa!!
FYI, so far so good. I will spare you the details (which are really not all that
bad) but I am back to "home turf" although still not back in school. I am being
"monitored" on a weekly basis which should become every 2 weeks later and then
every month and so on. I am taking immuno-suppressant pills and related ones.
Only about 5-6 different kinds 2-4 times a day. I am told that things are as
good as can be expected. I am not qite sure what that means. I'd like to back to
school full time but just cut back a little on on-site presence and do more work
from home via the net. I hope they let me do this!
I have been doing a little writing (reformating well known aerial photography
principles ... hopefully without major errors), and doing some pinhole
photography as for the WPPD. I put together a couple of booklets through
Lulu.com and am in two local goup exhibits and have my "Little Faces",
photographs on a shoestring, exhibit scheduled for exhibition at a scientific
photography conference in Alaska in Sept. Next week I wil be in your vicinity
(Lancaster) for a few days attending and speaking at a seminar on high speed
photography organized by the Visual Instrumentation Marketing Corp.
Also I am running a "course" for a couple of students "remotely" by specifying
assignments, providing soem reading resourcs and encouraging individual research
on the general topic of Nonconventonal Imaging Systems (like aerial, 3D stereo,
photogapmmetry, IR and UV, shadowgraphs and schlieren, thermography, etc.). All
done over email. Also been keeping busy with assembling a new trailer for my
13ft sailboat. I am supposd to stay out of the sun so am not sure why I am
spending time on my sailboat!
The other day I ran across a single tree out there i a field far away. I decided
to photograph it with a 800mm telephoto lens and my Canon Rebel digital. Noticed
that the tree could not be fitted into the frame. So I took three side-by-side
columns of photographs each made up of 5 separate exposures. Since the distance
to the tree was very large I thought that the small change in view from one
exposure to the next would really not matter if later I made an assembly. Then I
worked at combining them. The resut was not all that bad. However, even keeping
the exposure consant there were introduced slight tone changes among some of the
frames. I guess this has to do with the fact that the exposures were in-camera
processed to jpegs, no?
Tonight I will be taing my departmen's students out to dinner at a local italian
restaurant. There will be about 20 of us going out. Should be fun but I have to
remember to refain from excessive hugging and kissing and sit as removed from
the "crowd" as possible. Bummer!
Oh, yes ... then there is PhotoForum and Fotored ... ;)
cheers y'all!
andy
Marilyn Dalrymple wrote:
HI Andy,
In your messages you sound great. Are you feeling well?
Marilyn
