Typewriter Poet at the Wedding

The typewriter is a 1941 model.

The typewriter poet, Dylan Laine, creates a custom poem for the bride and groom in 5 minutes or less.

The poems were hung on a rose laden trellis that will be incorporated in a book for Josh and Sara.

I just thought it was the coolest thing I’ve seen at a wedding lately…. so I asked her if it would be okay to blog her and she agreed. Thanks Typewriter Poet.

Here Dylan Laine, Typewriter Poet, jots down a few words to create the poem for the bride and groom.

The typewriter poet explains how it works.

The custom poem she created with my words.

April 12, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Photography, poetryTags: 1941, Dallas Texas, Love Poems, photography, poetry, postaday, rose trellis, Typewriter, typewriter poet, wedding, writing 11 Comments

Josh and Sara’s Wedding Day

Sugar cookies in the welcome box. One the shape of Texas with a heart.

Sweet!

4/13/15 And a big p.s. to original post

Cookies created by Layered Bake Shop in McKinney Texas. (and yes, they ship!)

Wishing all the best always to the happy couple – today is your day! Enjoy your wedding.

April 11, 2015April 13, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Photography 4 Comments

Elusive Light, How it Changes Everything

Taken just before sunset

What a difference 20 minutes later

New York City- Christopher Street at Greenwich Street

Formerly the Federal Archives Building built in 1899- for the history click here

April 9, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1899, architecture, Canon 5D Mark ii, Christopher Street, Federal Archives Building, history, light, New York City, photography, postaday, sunset, travel 5 Comments

Photographing People Photographing People Can Be Boring

but I like this picture. A lot. It makes me happy.

A man capturing his family group on the benches at Central Park Zoo. I’d just come out of the Penguins.

To me, he looks like a conductor of an orchestra, feeling joy as he views the image of those whom he loves.

April 8, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: animals, cell phone photography, Central PArk Zoo, family, New York City, Penguins, photographing people, photography, posing, postaday, Spring break, travel 10 Comments

#publiceyeNYPL- i am in the public eye

NYPL recently updated
informational guide website click the

New link “Nycitylib” added September 3, 2019

When my sister took me to see this exhibit, I kept thinking how perfect it would have been for my photography students to see and experience. There it was, right in the glass case- a print of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother.

“Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography

Thanks to the development of new technology and social media, more photographs are created, viewed, and shared today than ever before. Public Eye, the first-ever retrospective survey of photography organized by NYPL, takes advantage of this moment to reframe the way we look at photographs from the past.”

-from the New York Public Library Website on Exhibitions.

I convinced Mary to pose with me under the giant mirror when the crowd was sparse.

Stereogranimation

One of the coolest things to do with one of your own photographs is create an animated gif file or a stereographic 3 D image. This is something the students can do from a computer.

Here is a photo I created from a shot of a saxophonist in Central Park last Sunday

http://stereo.nypl.org/view/60837

or get out your 3D glasses and click on this one

http://stereo.nypl.org/view/60838

Want to make your own? Click here

April 7, 2015September 4, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Art, books, PhotographyTags: #publiceyeNYPL, 3D image, Dorothea Lange, I am in the public eye, Migrant Mother, New York City, New York Public Library, Nycitylib, photography exhibition, postaday, retrospective, social media, sterogranimation, street photography 11 Comments

Lauren Bacall “The Look” Exhibit in NYC

You’ve probably watched a Lauren Bacall film sometime in your life. She passed last August. (obituary)

This exhibit’s over now but I’ll post what my sister and I saw at the Fashion Instititute of Technology while I visited on Spring Break.

We had a lot of fun looking at the fashions and reading the accompanying magazine pieces.

The first piece we saw is the coat

(Cell phone photo 🙁 the only one I took)

"A vivid pink wool coat by Norman Norell, worn by Bacall in the 1964 film Sex and the Single Girl, is on display." — “A vivid pink wool coat by Norman Norell, worn by Bacall in the 1964 film Sex and the Single Girl, is on display.”

French Fashion Show

TV Special clip

Dior designed the gown

Cardin designed the fuschia dress

The opening of video Bacall hosts in 1968 -Bacall and the Boys about four men (designers) Christian Dior’s Marc Bohan, Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves St Laurent

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9J-Ia6zQQ

For more close-up photos and an AP article by Leanne Italie click here

April 6, 2015April 6, 2015 by Ruth Categories: fashion, PhotographyTags: Bacall and the Boys, Christian Dior, Emauel Ungaro, fashion, FAshion Institute of Technology, Lauren Bacall, Marc Bohan, New York City, NYTimes Obituary, Pierre Cardin, Sex and the Single Girl, The Look, travel, vacation 8 Comments

Kids or Dogs More Difficult to Photograph?

Easter Weekend. Now a bit of a blur as I’m home and back to school tomorrow. The alarm set for 5:15.

The grandkids woke up this Easter morning and were going downstairs to find their baskets and go outside for an egg hunt.

Let Grandma get a quick photo on the stairs

Bunny ears and just eager to get to Easter Baskets. Forget it, Grandma.

Better to take one later when they weren’t paying any attention to me or my camer

or catching Michael Jumping off the swing

And Laura and Erika reminded me that Penny and Henry didn’t get birthday blogs and both granddogs were sad.

Okay, we’ll photograph them. Help me do it!

Erika helped with a bone. Laura had a turn. Then do individuals. Forget the two of them. Treats. Crazy.

Okay Erika said Let’s Do Individuals

April 5, 2015April 5, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Photography 19 Comments

Lucernarium Easter Vigil St. Patrick

Columbus, Ohio. Holiday weekend with the family. St Patrick Church.

Easter Vigil Saturday evening. The first portion- the Lucernarium.

To photograph a religious ceremony or not. That was the question. Someone was firing off electronic flash.Ugh.

I was trying for minimal camera shake. Being unobtrusive. Limit myself to a few shots.

It was really dark. Just candlelight. And the light of the bonfire from which they lit the Paschal Candle.

After everyone processed into the church, I stayed back and photographed the lilies on the table with the bonfire in the background.

And Donald and Marlene, Erika’s parents were inside the church a bit of a blur.

A woman in front was a blur, too.

Granddaughter Anna coming into the pew. Then I put the camera away in my bag and zipped it so I wouldn’t try to capture the ephemeral smoke from the incense.

Seven readings and psalms and intermittent prayers after each reading, all the altar candles are lit, the lights come on and as the Gloria is sung, the church bells peal and the sanctus bells ring and ring and ring.

And that is just the beginning…..

Happy Easter.

April 5, 2015April 5, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: available light, blur, candlelight, church, Columbus OH, Dominican Friars, Easter, Easter Vigil, family, fire, granddaughter, lilies, lucernarium, photography, postaday, religious ceremony, St.Patrick, weekly photo challenge 17 Comments

My Sister’s Swedish Bride Doll- 1948

A gift to my sister Mary from some friends and neighbors in Mt Vernon, NY.

She wasn’t played with either, just like the italian doll I posted yesterday.

Her white clothing has yellowed even though she’s been wrapped up and tucked away.

I’m still amazed at how different angles and backgrounds create such a varied look.

You can write the captions.

April 3, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1948, childhood, collection, doll, doll collection, family, Mt. Vernon NY, NYC, photography, postaday, sister, toy 8 Comments

My Sister’s Doll – 1947

Our Uncle Harold brought this doll to my sister in 1947. Mary was in Kindergarten. He was in the US Navy.

He brought the doll back from Naples.

She was a souvenir doll, not a play doll.

A couple of days ago, I put her in Mary’s NYC apartment window and photographed her from different angles.

Her straw hat wouldn’t stay on her head and I didn’t want to force it.

As I took her photo, her eyes seemed to follow me and I moved her around to try and get a good pose and shot.

Have you ever noticed how something inanimate can feel it has a life?

Holding her hat

1947 doll from Italy

CLose Up

April 2, 2015April 2, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1947, childhood, doll, doll collection, Italian doll, Italy, Naples, New York City, photography, postaday, souvenir, travel, uncle, US NAVY 12 Comments

Month: April 2015

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