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Dear Friends:
Well, I've made a wonderful discovery about photography and digital photography that I wanted to "shout" about. Those of us who want to take macro shots of our botanical subjects to assist in identifying specific characteristics of our plants and their detail have discovered how really difficult it is to get a clear, clean shot.
Our very own instructor, Susan Coffey, whose trip to the wilds of the Amazon last year and this year was an excursion into using the camera properly, quickly, adeptly, and efficiently - or get left standing on the river bank as the boat putt-putted away! Last year's slide presentation of her trip was exciting and demonstrated the skill she was able to obtain while in the midst of getting the job done. Fortunately, yet sadly, the only ones left standing on the banks, were the scores of friendly faces who helped make her work so captivating. I look forward to seeing this year's presentation.
Well with all these discussions about photography and in preparation for a growing student curiosity, I trekked into the wilds of the internet hunting for helpful hints about shooting macro pics of flora and fauna. And what to my wondering eyes should appear.....eight tiny reindeer?...nope....even better a wonderful treasure of a website that you will want to bookmark: http://www.shortcourses.com tells us just about all we need to know about our camera and photography.
Here's a little background about Short Courses and its publisher...
Dennis Curtin is an editor, author, and publisher in the fields of photography and computers. On the publishing side, he was editor-in-chief of one of Little Brown's divisions and also held the same position in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In his role as an editor, he worked with Ansel Adams and was partly responsible for his shifting his book legacy to Little Brown. You can read more about this interesting story his site, entltled: "Ansel Adams and Me". Curtin then became a publisher of photography and computer books (Curtin & London) and then an author in these same fields. His website tells us that he has published or written many best-selling books in photography and computing.
I hope you find Mr. Curtin's site helpful and his books useful. Here are a few of his book titles:
Curtin's Guide to Digital Cameras and Other Photographic Equipment is a guide to choosing a digital camera and understanding its features. Includes coverage of camera bags, tripods, lighting equipment and much more.
Using Your Digital Camera clearly explains everything you need to know about using your camera's controls to capture great photos
Displaying & Sharing Your Digital Photos discusses what digital photography is all about including printing your images as prints or books, displaying them on screen, and moving beyond the still image into exciting new areas.
Digital Photography Workflow covers everything from getting ready to take photos to storing, organizing, managing and editing your images.
Image Sensors, Pixels and Image Sizes describes key concepts such as resolution, aspect ratio and color depth that have a huge impact on your photographs.
Digital Desktop Lighting is a guide to low-cost tabletop photography equipment and the techniques used to photograph products and other small objects for eBay, Web sites, catalogs, ads and the like.
The On-line Library of Digital Photography
Bookstore is the home of printed copies, ebooks on CDs, and instant downloads of digital photography books published by Short Courses.
And if you are looking for more book reference on photography, check our Book Buys for more suggestions.
Happy Shooting....God Bless....OM
UPDATE TO LAST MONTH'S NEWS
Many thanks for your participation in "Save Duke Gardens." I thought you would like to know the results as written by Petra Ross-Macdonald of Pennington, New Jersey is a biologist who founded www.savedukegardens.org with her sister, book editor Candida Frith-Macdonald of England.
"The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Trustees met at Duke Farms on Monday May 12th. They held bound copies of 260 emails sent through May 9th, in addition to many letters sent directly to them."
Regretably the Trustees were "not prepared to reverse their position": PRM
Please click here to read the article printed in the New Jersey Star Ledger by Valerie Sudol
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Academy of Botanical Art @
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2008 Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor – Noon to 5pm
July 21, 22, 23 w/ TBA
Aug. 18, 19, 20 w/ TBA
Aug 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Five Fridays Calligraphy with Victoria Kibildis - Copperplate Script
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Oct. 20, 21,22 w/ Olivia Braida
Nov. 10, 11, 12 w/ Olivia Braida
Dec. 8, 9, 10 w/ Olivia Braida
Academy @ Selby
New Program Offering
Certificate in Calligraphy
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Victoria Kibildis
Five 4-Hour Classes for Each Course --
12 Noon to 4pm
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2008
Course 1: Copperplate Script: Fri, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22, 29,
Course 2: Roman Capitals: Fri, Oct 17, 24, 31 Nov 7 & 14
2009
Course 3: Humanist Bookhand: Fri, Jan 16,23,30 Feb 6,13
Course 4: Formal & Semi-Formal Italic: Fri, Mar 20, 27 Apr 3, 17, 24
Course 1: Copperplate Script: Sat, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Course 5: Illuminated Manuscript: Fri, Oct 16, 23, 30 Nov 6 & 13 (includes art instruction in composition for manuscripts w/ Olivia Braida
If you miss one of the courses, the program repeats itself. You can start your certificate program from any course except Course 5. So if you miss one of the courses you can catch it when it comes around again. Students who want to achieve the certificate need to take all five courses. Students are welcome to take these courses even if you do not intend to work toward a certificate.
Botanical Art & Illustration
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Ringling College of Art and Design
Summer 2008 Term
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Beautiful Botanicals w/ Olivia Braida
June 9, 10, 11 - 5:30pm to 9:30pm
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Exhibits
Artist contributors
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will exhibit ORIGINAL work
June 9 to August 1, 2008
Artist Reception: June 10, 2008, 6-8pm
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Exhibit of Original and
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by Selby Instructors including
members of the Academy team.
June 5 to July 30, 2008
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Avenue
Sarsota, Florida 34239
941-366-5731
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Artist contributors
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Art Reproductions on Sale Now
Art Exhibit Scheduled
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53 The Circle
East Hampton, NY 11937
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Exhibits Museums
South Florida Museum
201 10th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34205
(941) 746-4131
http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/
John and Mable Ringling Museum
5401 Bay Shore Road,
Sarasota Florida 34243
(941) 359-5700
http://www.ringling.org/
Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE, St.
Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 896-2667
http://www.fine-arts.org/
Salvador Dali Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901
(727) 823-3767
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
(412) 268-2434
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3970
(202) 783-5000
1-800-222-7270
http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
Modern Museum of Art
11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 733-HIGH
Receptionist: 404-733-4400
http://www.high.org/
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
(312) 443-3600
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Bruce Museum One Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-869-0376
http://www.brucemuseum.org/
Harvard University Museum of Natural History
Home of the famous Glass Flower Sculptures
by Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895)
and his son Rudolf (1857-1939)
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2365
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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