[Leica] IMG: A busy afternoon

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

Thanks for the kind words, Nathan.

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Jul 4, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> 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
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
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> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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