Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A striking lady and an impressive piece of art, both well photographed! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:24 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > Having read in the newspaper about an exhibit of wild-life photos, I > typically waited until the last day to have a look. It was at a place I > hadn?t really visited before: something called, I think, ?The Allied Arts > Guild? in Menlo Park. It is an impressively large and beautiful tract of > real estate with many small buildings on it, one of which housed the > exhibit I was after. > > It turns out that sixteen artists have exclusive access to this particular > gallery which is in it?s own little building. Each one agrees to do the > duty twice a month, so it was one of the artists who greeted us on entry. > After some looking, we found the photographs in question, something > between eight and a dozen, and worth seeing, ranging from a bob cat to > bears. I didn?t not the name of the photographer. > > Ultimately, we got into conservation with the artist, and it really struck > a chord, me being an ex-physicist who went wrong and went into computer > software, and my wife being an ex-biochemist who went I dunno what and > ended up teaching math. The artist, it turned out had a Ph.D. in solid > state physics, worked 25 years for HP until her activity was exported to > China and she had, as she said, the choice of retiring or being fired. > > Having dabbled with art all her life, she decided to concentrate on it. > Her father, by the way, had been on the U.C. Berkeley faculty and during > WWI was the expert for that portion of the Manhattan Project on the > effects of radiation on people, hence important re setting standards and > precautions for the research workers. This also struck a chord, since I > was for four years on the Chicago end of the Manhattan Project. > > I did take her picture. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003707.jpg.html > > After that, I wanted to show Lee another piece of art work: a statue of a > horse made of many materials, of which I could identify iron, aluminum, > wood, and a couple of rocks. There was a geocache hidden in the structure, > one of those magnetic key containers. It is the best I have ever seen of > that genre: art objects made of unexpected assorted materials. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/L1003709_001.jpg.html > > > > > > > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >