This blog shares my progress in digital photography and production of photo montages of flowers, architecture, Cornell buildings and sculptures, and travels.
After a conference in Philadelphia with NSTA, I stopped at Longwood Gardens for some springtime inspiration and practice with a macro lens. The conservatory smelled of lilies, while the music wafted through the area. Lovely few hours of appreciating the beauty and thinking of spring up here in Ithaca.
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.
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.
