lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hey, if you send me a PO Box address I have free things on CD and DVD you might enjoy there in Los Alamos. They all run in a web browser from a laptop so work well on the road.Ed, I'm inclined toward your point of view RE consensus about "correct" color reproduction. Once you can reproduce a color chart exactly I suppose you know that you will have gotten only as far as square one toward making pleasing color photographs. Artist/scientists and scientist/artists are a special kind of people. There in Taos (so close to Los Alamos!) you must see plenty of both. Often, it seems, the former makes art that should be in a trade exhibit. The later makes art that belongs in a lab. The exceptions are the people who draw inspiration from both and find something unique. The work of Eliot Porter, also a local familiar, must inspire you greatly. May your efforts be rewarding and instructive to us all. AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book FREE COPY http://www.panoramacamera.us-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SPAM] Question From: Ruey <tmi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, December 18, 2009 7:38 pm To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Why is it that in earlier times science and art could coexist comfortably and today so many artists seem scared to death of learning any science and so many engineer-scientists find no value in art or desire to create it? I wonder if this modern extensive degree of specialization and complete distrust of the other or their knowledge, hasn't a great deal to with our inability to solve the problems we face in the world today? What could an instructor do to bridge that gap? Ed Scott 1. The WPA New Mexico Guidebook first publish in 1940. It tells stuff you cannot find in modern guidebooks and retracing the old trip tours is fun and challenging. There is the state road map of the time, that has the then current route designations that you can correlate to a modern state road map. Some links need an Internet connection but most work without. 2. On the same DVD and linked from the guidebook is a topo map system for north central NM. It is 7.5 minute topos, about 250 of them - Albuquerque to the Colorado border, and Dulce in the northwest corner to Dilia in the southeast corner. I indexed all the words on these topos so you can find the map they are on via a link but you still have to search the topo yourself. These topos have about 11Xs more detail than a DeLorme so are quite useful for scouting out locations, and show detail not on other maps. 3. The Delight Makers by Adolf Bandelier and the Cochiti tales that parts of his book came out of. The content is all there but one day I hope to get it better linked. Have you seen the book of Ernest Knee's photos in New Mexico from the 1930s? It was on sale for $20 at the Garcia Street Bookstore in Santa Fe. He and Laura Gilpin have photos in the NM Guidebook. Dana Knee, his son, has been reprinting the 8x10 nitrate base negs. Knee was Howard Hughes' personal photographer in the WWII time frame. I'd get interested in panoramic photography but you are so good at it and have taken so many great shots that we see around, there doesn't seem like much left to do. Ed |
