In April, I'm going to have an exhibit at the Oshkosh Public Library of photographs I have done of their building and a few of other libraries. Also included will be stereocards of the places behind the scenes that patrons normally don't see. After meeting with Sandy Towland, Community Engagement Librarian, about how we were going to accomplish the stereo pictures, I took a look at the exhibition space and was concerned I didn't have enough photographs. Morton was along, loaded with Kentmere 400.
The transition from the new 1993 addition to the original building was one of the images in a double exposure the last time I visited. The cases at the left will contain a display of my cameras.
The other image in that double exposure was a sunbeam in a different corner of the stacks.
While we were looking around for subjects for the stereo photographs, I wish I had thought of getting this sunbeam in the original staircase. I noticed it later when the door was locked. Leaning the camera right against the window worked out with the addition of the reflections of Morton and the lights around the dome behind me, as well as some interesting interaction between the relatively clean window and the very overexposed bit of sky at the top of the door.
A crew of outdoor workers in camo gear enjoying lunch in a spot on the second floor with a panoramic view of the parking lot. After the shutter was opened another guy arrived and conversed with the group while I tried to be inconspicuous, looking at American history books with the camera sitting between volumes on a shelf.
The ice on Lake Winnebago is two feet thick, but we had a warm spell last week that melted what little snow we've had, and opened the major cracks wide enough that the fishing clubs removed all the bridges. Almost all the huts are gone as well. It's since frozen again and is now a clear sheet of ice.
A maple leaf that had melted into the ice and then was covered when the new melt refroze.
Sarah decided that it was more appropriate to celebrate Valoween at the end of a month with 31 days, especially since it then was also the same weekend as Imbolc.
Walking down Main Street, I thought the Inverse Square Law would give a lot of depth to this arrangement of ornaments in the window of a salon.
On my way back, I again leaned the camera right up against a window to capture the salon's morning light.
The theme for the Fox Valley Photographic Group this month is to capture the splash of a water droplet with the shortest exposure you can manage. This is approximately 264,000 drops over the three minutes required to get the exposure.
After a lapse of seven years, and at least two years of trying to get myself to do it, I have begun to play the guitar again. Maybe if I post about it here and elsewhere on social media, I'll have to keep up with it no matter how awful it sounds.
Leon's Frozen Custard closes for January and February.
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