East Shore Festival of The Arts, Lansing, NY

The Second annual East Shore Festival of The Arts (ESFOTA) will take place at the Lansing Town Hall, 26 Auburn Road, Lansing, New York, with an art opening on Friday, May 13 from 6-9 PM. There will be entertainment and refreshments that evening. The show will remain up until July 18th.


I have the following montages on display at the festival and hope to see many friends from Ithaca at the reception.  


Two of the montages were produced from digital images of the cement sculptures at the Cornell Plantations. Those sculptures were designed and produced by architecture students at Cornell ion 1961 as a senior project.  I find the sculptures excellent photography subjects during all seasons and lighting.


The lotus montage is one of my favorites with the artistic compilation of flower parts from the lovely lotus flower.


The fourth montage is a street model in New Orleans.  Many people making a living as painted characters, this one being of silver tones.

New Orleans

Last spring, I attended an NSTA teacher conference in New Orleans. It was a treat to see the city vibrant, friendly, and in relatively good shape despite Katrina. I did not visit the areas worst hit, however. I just submitted these images to a juried photo contest focused on New Orleans. It was fun to review all the images that included street scenes, flowers, the cemetery, and the botanical garden with several sculpture exhibits.

These photos were taken of two different men on the street, one adorned with pink hair and the other dressed as a tin man and seeking donations as payment for his performance.

Community School of Music and Art

The call for artists for the juried show next month at the Community School for Music and Art (CSMA) in Ithaca was a look at the last decade and to identify an image that represented something significant that happened during that decade in the country or one's own life. The image here of the fiddler in the cemetery was taken last spring in New Orleans when I was there for a conference for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Cemeteries are considered cities of the dead and have the tombs above ground due to the high water table in that area of the country. Was this fiddler playing to someone he knew? We will never know.