The family's heading for Cape Town towards the end of July. I'll stay a month and Anna will stay to the end of September in order to shoot the spring wildflower season. She'll keep our 2-year old
daughter Aria with her.
The new college year with associated drama and challenges starts the first week of Sept.
This will be our first visit as a family since we left there three years ago.
Actually Aria was conceived in Cape Town and born in Oman. Anna was six months pregnant when we got here.
Now that Anna is a fully fledged photographer with a few awards including National Geographic in December, under her belt and a client list that has booked shoots well into autumn, we need a break. and some time to shoot for ourselves. Mostly we need a break from Photoshop which keeps both of us glued to computers for a few hours a day. Oh for the good old days when someone else did your processing and there was nothing to do but file the trannies away.
I have now stopped shooting commercial stuff... Actually I haven't been shooting a lot at all as teaching is taking up so much time. I'm thinking of doing a vegetable project in the studio soon.
Anybody else on the list have a relationship with another photographer?
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
----- Original Message ----
From: Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:03:55 AM
Subject: Re: Vey quiet lately
From: Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:03:55 AM
Subject: Re: Vey quiet lately
This is the first summer since I lost my marriage 13 years ago that
I've recovered even the slightest interest in a garden. Last year I
half-heartedly put in three tomatoes which only sort of obliged.
Tomatoes really are not worth eating unless one grows them oneself.
Even the "organic" ones really don't have any idea of what a tomato
is.
And when I moved into this house I did get a little fired up about
flowering bushes - the house presented a 1.5 storey high cedar
shingled wall (18 feet) to the visitor - not even a window because
there is a stairway on the inside. Now the rhodi that was scheduled
to grow to 10 feet in front of that wall has indeed done it. And
right now it's extravagantly colorful, too.
But this year, for the first time, I have been collecting seaweed and
mulching things. And using the seaweed to kill the grass where some
fresh vegetables might actually thrive. 16 trash barrels of seaweed
during the last two weeks, unfortunately one at a time, a 6 mile
round trip to the beach at about 3 hours after dead low tide in hopes
of getting dry seaweed. Damp seaweed is really heavy and I have to
drag the barrel about 60 feet back to the car, most of that in soft
sand.
So I upped the tomato plant quotient to 6 and put in 6 basils to go
with the tomatoes and maybe make pesto. Last year's pesto wasn't too
bad but I had to take basil from friends to have enough.
Gas prices have really put a crimp in my shooting this spring, too,
and getting that show up and paying for the mats and frames really
shot the checking account as well. So I'm glad my irises and poppies
are finally blooming so I have something close at hand to shoot!
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
http://www.landsedgephoto.com
http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/
I've recovered even the slightest interest in a garden. Last year I
half-heartedly put in three tomatoes which only sort of obliged.
Tomatoes really are not worth eating unless one grows them oneself.
Even the "organic" ones really don't have any idea of what a tomato
is.
And when I moved into this house I did get a little fired up about
flowering bushes - the house presented a 1.5 storey high cedar
shingled wall (18 feet) to the visitor - not even a window because
there is a stairway on the inside. Now the rhodi that was scheduled
to grow to 10 feet in front of that wall has indeed done it. And
right now it's extravagantly colorful, too.
But this year, for the first time, I have been collecting seaweed and
mulching things. And using the seaweed to kill the grass where some
fresh vegetables might actually thrive. 16 trash barrels of seaweed
during the last two weeks, unfortunately one at a time, a 6 mile
round trip to the beach at about 3 hours after dead low tide in hopes
of getting dry seaweed. Damp seaweed is really heavy and I have to
drag the barrel about 60 feet back to the car, most of that in soft
sand.
So I upped the tomato plant quotient to 6 and put in 6 basils to go
with the tomatoes and maybe make pesto. Last year's pesto wasn't too
bad but I had to take basil from friends to have enough.
Gas prices have really put a crimp in my shooting this spring, too,
and getting that show up and paying for the mats and frames really
shot the checking account as well. So I'm glad my irises and poppies
are finally blooming so I have something close at hand to shoot!
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
http://www.landsedgephoto.com
http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/
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