Various Photos that have been published to print or to public websites
Published
Coincidence Again
Here’s a photo of E, J, & K that I caught on Monument Circle.
I share this for two reasons: 1. I like it, 2. It proves we were downtown again on 02/02/2012 with K in a backpack seat, which is the point of the rest of this post…
I occasionally look at the “searched for” info on my wordpress and flickr sites, just to see what brought people to wander in. This morning I saw someone had searched on: “Indy photographer superbowl 2012” and then landed here on wordpress. I put the same terms in a search engine and found that my Super Bowl photo posts come up pretty close to the top of the results list; that was interesting but not terribly surprising.
The surprising part came next… scanning a few of the other search results I noticed a photography post about ignoring the super bowl; intrigued, I clicked on it. I looked through the assortment of interesting downtown Indy photos and was about to move on when a photo of my Son-in-Law and Grandson scrolled into view. WHOW! How?, Who?, Why? What are THEY doing on this guys blog post?
What are the chances?
There were hundreds of thousands of visitors to downtown but on 02/01/2012, some person I don’t know (Rob Slaven):
a. Takes a random photo of my Son-in-Law and Grandson
b. Decides to post it on his blog
c. I ‘stumble across it’ totally by accident while chasing someone elses search string
Here’s the photo: (I’d link it straight to Rob Slaven’s blog but I couldn’t figure out how to do that)
The chances seem incredibly remote, nearing impossibility, but this coincidental serendipity seems to happen to me more often than I would ever expect (see my post titled “Honor or Offense?” Sept 3, 2011 – https://dadartphotography.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/honor-or-offense/)
Well that’s my statistical brain stumbler for the day. Thanks to Rob Slaven for making the day more interesting. It really is a small world out there. I had links to Rob Slaven’s blog but they have all broken and it now says “the authors have deleted this site”
A Second Architectural Photo Published – AIA Architect Magazine
Just getting around to posting this second photo published in Architect Magazine last year. It is project photo number 4 of 10 “Cultural” projects awarded last year.
Here’s a link to the article: http://www.architectmagazine.com/cultural-projects/cultural-facilities.aspx
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument is the 4th photo in the slideshow
See this post: https://dadartphotography.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/capture-indy-photo-3/ for another photo of the monument.
Sun, Shadows, and Sears
Originally the Indianapolis Sears Roebuck & Co. building on the corner of Massachusetts Ave, E. Vermont and North Alabama Streets.
I was wondering why this photo seemed to get regular hits on my flickr account? I checked the flickr reference stats and a website by “agilitynut” with a collection of “Indiana Art Deco Architecture” has a link to my photo saying just “For more, see This Website”
I didn’t take this photo with any intent for it to become an example of art deco architecture. I walk past this building everyday without taking much notice but one fine day I just thought it looked “cooler” than usual. I grabbed the camera and walked back to take a shot. At the time I remember thinking ‘this is awkward, everyone on sidewalk is looking at me wondering why I am taking a photo of this and this photo is probably going to look stupid because I am down here on the sidewalk and that is way up there and the building will look like it’s falling over backwards’… Fortunately, some playing with “Filter” & “Lens Correction” tricks in PS CS5 came to rescue this from a terrible case of parallax.
So what to learn… if the lighting looks cool it’ll probably be cool in the photo too, and, when struck that something has a special look to it, a little extra effort to get a shot may be worthwhile…
Vincennes Photos Published
Photos of the new Vincennes Roger’s Clark Middle School were published in “American School and University-Learning by Design” magazine.
I took these at two different times; on a blazing hot summer day as construction was finishing up preparing for school start-up in and again after a few weeks of school. This is an interesting project for many reasons but one of them is that it was fun to photograph. Lots of color, big swooping terrazzo floor graphics, and nice details. It’s also very energy efficient which is why it was awarded “Outstanding Project” in the Sustainability and Learning” catagory. Here’s a link to the online digital edition of the magazine http://issuu.com/stratton/docs/lbd_fall2011?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222 . The Vincennes article is on printed page 38 or page 40 of the thumbnail pages.
More photos of this school can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schmidtassociates/sets/72157626830637829/
Urban Times – Mass Ave Tree Lighting Photo
A photo I took of the tree adjacent to our office at Schmidt Associates has been published in Urban Times. Two credits here: 1. to Brian because I shot this (handheld) with his 70-200 2.8 VR lens, and to Jennifer for Photoshop cleanup and removal of some icky stuff in the photo.
Soon there will be lots of similar trees on Mass Ave as other businesses add lighting prior to the Super Bowl. There is a link to the online article below this snip.
http://www.urbantimesonline.com/2011/09/lilly-day-of-service-to-transform-mass-ave/
Pediatric Iron Lung: Indiana Medical History Museum
A Pediatric Iron Lung Machine: and some story behind the photo.
Rotary and other groups were once allowed to borrow this historical piece but it was getting beat up so the museum started saying no to loan requests. However, they did give permission to photograph if IMHM could have a copy of the photo. I was not allowed to touch the equipment so had to do the best I could with it’s existing position and lighting. I was disappointed with what I was getting until I tried placing a flash underneath. At first that didn’t work either because it was too ‘directional’ depending on where it was ‘aimed’. More in desperation than intent I took a white plastic grocery bag (I had brought a black backdrop cloth in it) scrunched it up and and wrapped it around the flash. I took this photo from a step ladder so I could get a shot down into the machine. An interesting note: the floor is red because this is located in the original “Autopsy Room”. “Back-in-the-day” they had painted the floor blood red so it didn’t look so messy with all the blood around…
I took this Photo at IMHM for friend involved in Indianapolis Sunrise Rotary Club. A 30×40 mounted blowup was on display at 2nd floor Atheneum ArtSpace beginning for First Friday for one month during an “End Polio Now” exhibit. This photo (and others) were given to IMHM but I can not find anywhere on their website. So it was published and used by Rotary Club but it doesn’t seem to have gone any further than that. Below is some other info about IMHM-it’s a cool place to visit; kind of creepy, but cool.
The Indiana Medical History Museum is located in the Old Pathology Building on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital on the near westside of Indianapolis. The museum represents the beginning of scientific psychiatry and modern medicine while the building itself is the oldest surviving pathology facility in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The museum maintains a collection of scientific artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a completely authentic setting. Constructed in 1895 and augurated in 1896, the nineteen-room Pathological Department Building, as it was then called, is equipped with three clinical laboratories, a photography lab, teaching amphitheatre, autopsy room, and library.
Photo featured in AIA Architect Digital Magazine
This photo of Plainfield High School was featured in Architect Magazine. Here’s the photo and a bit of a story:
The hostas were in bloom and it was a hot morning so I was looking for some shade. Unfortunately the hostas were still wet with morning dew and there were several tall weeds towering above the hostas and grasses. I carefully climbed up onto the planter and pulled the weeds which much to my chagrin came up with huge clumps of dirt attached to the roots. Then brought the tripod and camera up, waded into the corner and got fairly wet from the plants. It was a little awkward trying to ‘get real low’ without sitting down in the plants and it created an audience gallery at a big window to the left of the photo (unseen here). Afterward, a teacher thanked me for my weeding efforts and said I could come back anytime… It’s nice to be recognized as being good at something. This was my favorite shot of the day. I was happy to see it picked as the ‘cover photo’ of the articles slideshow.
Below is a snip of the webpage and a link: http://www.architectmagazine.com/education-projects/educational-facility.aspx
Here’s a snip of the slide and text from the article:
This project (along with other photos) was also featured in the 2009 Architectural Portfolio of SchoolDesigns.com http://schooldesigns.com/Project-Details.aspx?Project_ID=3678
Even more photos of this incredible Schmidt Associates project at Plainfield High School can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schmidtassociates/sets/72157626954548646/
Honor or Offense?
Another of my photos has been Published! and like most, this one has a story behind it.
So, we’re getting ready to leave for vacation; I grab a bowl of cereal and sit down at the dining room table cluttered with several days stuff’ including mail. An advertisement for Stout’s Shoes catches my eye. Normally (and thankfully) most ads that arrive by mail get pitched immediately but somehow this one hadn’t made it to the trash yet. It proclaimed a 125 year anniversary shoe sale with a mix of historical and new images of the Mass Avenue storefront. That was interesting; I always like to look at old images of familiar storefronts. There was a ‘Deja Vu’ click, something seemed familiar about one of the photos, but no, it couldn’t be…, it must just be a similar photo to one I’d taken and posted to flickr over a year ago… Surely not my photo…
I checked. Yep, it’s my photo, exactly, not cropped or shopped, nothing but straight off of flickr. Then the roller coaster of “That’s so cool, of all the photos out there someone liked mine best!” then, “The scoundrels, they didn’t even ask, or give any credit, how lame!, they used my photo then mailed it to my house!” up and down, up and down.
The chance was SO slim that I would even notice. Nobody (really NOBODY) but me would ever have recognized that the Stout’s ad photo was mine.
So here’s my photo on flickr:
and here’s the Stout’s Shoe ad:
So, what would you do, be honored or offended? Personally I lean toward being honored. I don’t think Stout’s is involved in a deep conspiracy to steal and profit from my photos.
Yes, I did check with Stout’s. They passed along the contact info for the ad and they in turn apologized for unwittingly using my photo. They had gotten it from another website where it had been lifted by someone else, which I am finding happens a lot…
So I’ll look on the up-side, I enjoyed catching an image of Stout’s in nice early morning light, at least a few other folks out there thought it was good enough to represent Stout’s Shoes 125th Anniversary Sale, and I got published again!
Schmap’d
Another photo “published” sort-of, kind-of, in a wierd way I can’t say I really understand. Here’s a partial screen capture of the Chicago>Parks & Gardens “Schmap” page featuring my photo of a “Powder Puff Tree” (Calliandra Haematocephala). That’s cool, and they did ask if it could be used. I said yes with credit and they did give credit (see the “dadart” there under the photo). The wierd thing is that when they initially asked it was a rather generic request to use my photo from Garfield Park Conservatory in their upcoming Schmap interactive city guide books. I assumed Indianapolis. This photo is from the GPC here on the southside of Indianapolis (not Chicago GPC). But then, I suppose a tree blossoming in Chicago would look quite similar to one here… Anyway, it seems like a good reminder to not consider everything you ‘discover’ on the internet completely vetted for accuracy…
Schmap partial screen capture of:
http://chicago.schmap.com/parks/garfield_park?pn=63
Here’s the original photo
Photos Published in Mass Ave Article
Woot! Several of my photos were included in a recent article about Mass Ave in the Urban Design Newsletter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Here’s a link: http://www.asla.org/ppn/Article.aspx?id=32260
“Capture Indy” Photo 7
And finally, the last “CaptureIndy” post. Scroll down to the Photo 1 post for the background on the previous seven posts.
7 of 7; In “Pets” category. Portrait of our family beagle Ruthy. All natural light from adjacent window. This was also taken with a 105 mm micro nikkor. I hadn’t notice until posting these how many of them were taken with the same lens.
DADart Photography 