Just wanted to give a brief shout out to any photo students from Sidwell Friends School who might be reading TOP today. And I wonder if I could ask one or two of you to do a wee favor for me. Sometime, when the time seems right, possibly when your photography teacher seems just a bit flustered, if that ever happens, or says something kind of out there, or gets just a bit, what shall we call it, intense—well, I'll trust you to know when the time is right—I'd like you to say, quietly, so that she can maybe just barely hear you or half-hear you, "Lely, get a grip." Would you do that for me?
She's an old friend. One of the very best portraits I ever did was of Lely, although it's one nobody or almost nobody has ever seen, and there's kind of a funny story behind that. Maybe I'll tell the story someday, if somebody will remind me. (I can't now, because I have no way to digitize the portrait and show it.)
Cheers from here in the old Northwest.
Mike
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'[...] I have no way to digitize the portrait and show it.'
Mike,
maybe I am swearing in church (a Dutch way of putting it), but I find it so easy to just take a photograph (handheld even) with a DSLR of a bromide print and in that way digitalize it. It really suffices for low rez monitor viewing.
And I want to see that best portrait of yours!
Cheers,
Hans
Posted by: Hans Muus | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 04:41 PM
Mike,
this post was so cryptic that a bit of Googling was required.
All I'm saying is that Lely Constantinople's recent work on the "Wonderbread Factory" in the "Recent" gallery on her website is worth at least a passing Random Excellence.
Posted by: James | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 06:31 PM
Mike,
You're not in the NW, us here in PDX are!!
Posted by: Ray Hudson | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 06:51 PM
It may work for you. However, students do not normally call their professor by their first name. Your Pentax K5 will digitize the photograph if there is no other option. You have a 35mm macro lens don't you?
Posted by: David L | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 07:05 PM
Ray,
The Old Northwest, or Northwest Territory, was the territory northwest of the Ohio River--basically bounded by the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes. It comprised present-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota.
That's why Northwestern University is in Illinois, just north of Chicago.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 08:58 PM
Ah.. thx. I've always wondered, being from the Akron/Cleveland area, about that Northwestern U. thing.
Posted by: Ray Hudson | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 09:57 PM
"... I have no way to digitize the portrait..."
that is so lame!
Posted by: Sven W | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 11:25 PM
Well, to digitize it I would have to find it, and that could be quite an undertaking.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Thursday, 07 April 2011 at 11:59 PM
"...students do not normally call their professor by their first name"
At Quaker schools they do...
Posted by: Lionel | Friday, 08 April 2011 at 10:02 AM
That's also why Northwest Airlines and Northwestern National Bank were headquartered in Minneapolis. (Both those names are gone; Delta now owns Northwest and uses the Delta name, and Norwest Bank bought Wells Fargo and uses the Wells Fargo name.)
Also why Schmidt beer is "the brew that grew with the Great Northwest", but that is perhaps rather less well known.
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Friday, 08 April 2011 at 11:35 AM
"students do not normally call their professor by their first name"
They don't? Since when? What schools?
We mostly called professors by their first names when I was in college in 1972. I was probably born at a near-perfect time -- dress codes and nearly all the related rules of formal behavior were falling just before I got to them.
In gradeschool and highschool we didn't (that's the ONLY place I've ever been where honorifics were routinely used). It was kind of funny -- once when showing up at the Carleton computer center to help the highschool math and computer teacher run the grade reports, I found myself walking into the room and addressing the college's director of computing by his first name (he was also mayor at the time, I think; maybe that was slightly later though) and the highschool teacher as "Mr. Anderson"
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Friday, 08 April 2011 at 11:41 AM