This week is “Art Fair”. There are actually 4, or maybe even 5, separately organized fairs going on around town simultaneously. It’s most clear it’s this week because the weather is so ‘bad’; as in, this is the week the heat and the humidity both peak, at »
Archive of journal entries re "Ann Arbor"
This weekend I was trying to take a longer bike ride, while still staying close to town. At one point I was out at the Broadway Bridge, and I went down to the river. I was at the point where last year I saw the kayaks going under the path from the Argo spillway and into the Huron River, below the Argo Dam. »
Of course, my hand didn’t really freeze, but it hurt enough, when I took my glove off to fix a problem with a lens, that I decided I’d done enough photographing for this outing. Probably not such a great idea »
Some years, like this one, photography can slow down after the drama of all that autumnal show. While in a couple of months these temperatures will be welcomed as warm, when the temperature first starts to cool then we experience it as cold. Add to that overcast, blank, skies, »
Today was the day of the open house at the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Wow, there were a lot of people there! You could get to see most floors but not everywhere on any floor. There was a lot o waiting at elevators. We left after looking round »
Wow! Just heard from one of the interior designers at the new Mott hospital; they need more prints & want to use almost all the photographs from my DVD: “We REALLY liked them”. »
There had been talk the last week or so that they would need a few more images after all for the new Mott and I heard today that they wanted to make second prints of my 4 images. Still sounds good to me. Patrick (Young) is doing the printing, using Epson Premium Lustre (that’s for prints of photographs; prints of reproductions of artwork are being done on Epson Enhanced Matte). The prints are in the range of 16 x 20 inch. »
Heard today from Patrick (Young) that 4 of my photographs have been selected to be prints for the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Not entirely sure who did the actual selection; I know Patrick is handling the printing, and there is someone who owns a framing shop, and then there are two interior designers who work for UMHS. I had provided them 36 images on a DVD to select from. Considering how late I was getting into the selection process, having 4 selected is fabulous. »
