Wow – where does the time go? How did it get to be July?! Hope everyone is doing well!
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Category Archives: Photography History
Monday Mystery: 3Ps and a Podcast – Take 2
Today on Monday Mysteries we answer a question some of you have asked in emails, etc.: whatever happened to the podcast idea I talked about months ago in a post entitled 3Ps in a Podcast? Continue reading
Monday Mystery: The Decidedly Disputatious Medal
Today’s delayed-from-yesterday Monday Mystery revolves around a medal awarded to a man named Plumbe. Professor Plumbe, to be exact. And no, this doesn’t have anything to do with the game of Clue. Continue reading
3Ps in a Podcast
My laptop is slowly getting back in shape – still not quite there, and I’m still awaiting word on whether or not the files that weren’t backed up can be recovered. So, still some work to do.
But in the meantime, I have managed to put together a couple of things for my Photographs, Pistols, and Parasols project. Specifically, I’m working on creating a podcast, and I really would like to get some feedback on the idea. Continue reading
Museums, Mystery and Serendipity
Last week Chris and I spent two nights but only one full day in Albuquerque, having gone there originally only to go back to one of our old favorite museums, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Chris and I first stopped there back in 1992, on a 2-week summer tour of the Southwest (a wimpy 2000 miles covered over 2 weeks, as I recall, compared to the 2000+ miles that we just did in 4 days); that was a trip where we stopped at a variety of museums and national parks along the way. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: Photography Insurance
Today on Monday Mysteries we make consider a mystery of sort about the Civil War photographer Andrew Gardner. Continue reading
Public Service Announcement
“The sedate citizens [sic] can’t indulge in any hilariousness without incurring the risk of being caught in the act, and having his photograph passed around … ”
A modern warning? Continue reading