[alt-photo] Re: changing the topic--sort of

[BOB KISS]

DEAR CHRIS,
	Sounds like you have had one heck-of-a time!  
	Nothing like a brush with your mortality to put things in context
and give you a fresh outlook on life while forcing you to relegate the
lesser hassles to their proper place.  
I had a near fatal horse riding accident in the mountains of Brazil in1989
necessitating 7 surgeries and 3 years of physiotherapy.  It changed my life
completely and for the better.  
	I have been an amateur radio operator since 1962 and learned Morse
code on a "brass pounder" telegraph key.  This morning, once I saw the
flames start, I simply treated the delete key like that old telegraph key.
A few SOSs and, as my 3 1/2 year old daughter says, "AWE GONE"!  
	The good news is that you produced TONS of photos!
		CHEERS!
			BOB

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[mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf Of
Christina Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:35 AM
To: Alt List
Subject: [alt-photo] changing the topic--sort of

Dear All,

I was so excited to see a bunch of emails this morning, and then to have it
be a fight, bummer.  We've lost some good alt list members so let's try to
keep our cool???

SO, I'll share what I have been up to and maybe change the topic, only sort
of because it relates to digital.

First of all, on June 17 my husband and I were caught in the middle of a
tornado on the highway traveling to MN. I mean, in the MIDDLE.  We lived,
the car lived. Others did not fare too well in that bout of 39 tornadoes
that day in and around Wadena MN (3 died).  It gave me quite the perspective
on life. I think the reason we may not have been taken up into it is our car
was packed with all our stuff for the summer (go Mercury Montego) because a
car next to us was taken up and thrown 100 ft. away. 

Second, off of the personal and onto photography, in defense of digital, I
was on a mission to photograph my grandmother's childhood home whose
disposition this year is coming into question. In the span of 8 days and 127
hours of work I was able to take 2000 images, cull to 1300 (photograph twice
a day, go to my hotel room at night and edit), put 500 images of every
object in the house in a full-color magazine, upload to the web to
Magcloud.com and will get, in 5 business days, a 96-page catalog of
household contents.  This would not have been possible without digital. And
my Nikon 14mm rectilinear which rocks.

Third, and the fun alt part--I now have 500 personal images of the place for
me, out of which I will do an alt project in gum and/or platinum. So the
fact that HP is going to give Epson a run for their money is great news for
me!! Because my Epson 3800 is still not figured out for pt/pd negs unless I
were to use all inks.

And fourth, to end on a bit of comedy to lighten your all's days up (oh
hell, why not just share all my dirty laundry), it was 103 degrees in VA
when I was photographing and I managed, in that kind of heat (above body
temp hence no noticeable "cool draft" as in indicator) to walk down main
street, walk into the restaurant, with my flowy silky skirt tucked into my
undies/panties (thank God it was not a thong and thank God they were pink),
showing FULL butt.  A nice waitress came running over to inform me.  SO this
is NOT in defense of digital, because if there is anyone out there who took
a cell phone image of me walking down main street and posted it to the
Internet, I will find you :)

Chris



Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

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