I just finished my annual project for my daughter’s high school – photographing the kids who are in the annual musical production, this year, Leader of the Pack (this is my sixth one, and my last since my daughter graduates this year, and our older daughter will graduate from college this year – that’s why there have been more than 4).  Posted the display yesterday before opening night last night.  The kids did a spectacular job – contratulations to them.  I took a photo of the display, but I have to stitch it together since the display is 25′ long, and I had to take three pics to get it all in.   What was also amazing is that, for the head shots,  I was using a very old Speedotron 300ws Brown Line strobe kit that I have had for around 35 years.  It still works – wow!  55 pics (cast, pit, and crew), shot, PhotoShopped, printed, and hung.  The parents love them and I have lots of fun.

If you have read any of my articles, you know how much I believe in showing off your photography by decorating your home with many prints  – some of them large size.  We have been doing this for years, and visitors always know who our family and friends are, and what we like to see in photos – we have LOTS of pictures hanging around.  One of the things we do for some of our special photos is to make large canvas prints.  We do both photos of people and photos of things -  places we’ve been or close ups of flowers… or anything that will brighten up the room and show our friends how good pictures can really make a room look great.  Give it a try!

Telephoto shot of Reuss River and Chapel Bridge, Lucerne, Switzerland

Amazing bit of detective work next.  In 1977, a friend and I travelled around a bit in Europe, and, as you would expect, took a lot of pictures.  One of his fascinations is panorama photography, and he took a bunch of pics with his Widelux.  So recently, he started scanning the negs and is thinking of making and selling posters of them.  Some of them are pretty spectacular.  He couldn’t remember where we were when he took one of them so he sent me a copy. By pure coincidence, I had also taken that pic, not with a pano camera, but with a telephoto lens on 35mm Kodachrome, so my shot was right in the middle of his.  Digging deeper, we figured out that we were standing atop the Hotel Gutsch when we took the shots.  Fun stuff!  I’ll let you know when he starts selling prints.