I'd say your doctors are amazed at all you are doing. It's good to know you are able to handle so much. Just don't overdo it! Shyrell ADavidhazy said: > 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
