I dusted off an old 120mm camera from the shelves of our photo lab here in town (a Uniflex I, manufactured in 1947), stuck some film in, and went out Saturday morning to see if it still worked. It did! They developed the B&W roll and scanned them for me... here's a couple from the 12-exposure strip:
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Had a lazy Saturday today getting some business done - decided to get out and take some photos...
Our dear friend and colleague Randy Pausch passed away today, July 25, after a brave struggle against pancreatic cancer. Randy captured the minds and hearts of millions worldwide with his Carnegie Mellon lecture, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," and his book, "The Last Lecture."
Randy, who earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon in 1988, returned to the university in 1997 as an associate professor of human-computer interaction and computer science. Along with Carnegie Mellon Professor Don Marinelli, Randy was the co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center, a leading interactive multimedia education and entertainment center.
At Carnegie Mellon, Randy was also the director of the Alice software project, a revolutionary way to teach computer programming. The interactive Alice program teaches computer programming by having kids make animated movies and games. A fitting legacy to Randy's life and work, Alice may in the future help to reverse the dramatic drop in the number of students majoring in computer science at colleges and universities. Randy was also known as a pioneer in the development of virtual reality, and he created the popular Building Virtual Worlds class.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Randy was also a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He used sabbatical leaves to work at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and he consulted with Google Inc. on user interface design. He is the author or co-author of five books and more than 70 articles.
Perhaps the greatest lesson, however, Randy taught us all was how to live, even in the face of great challenges, and how to follow our passion. While Randy's greatest passion was clearly his family, he did not shy from sharing his passion for his work as a professor, for his students, and for Carnegie Mellon. We will miss Randy, but we will carry the memory of him and all that he did to make Carnegie Mellon a better university and each of us who knew him a better person.
Sincerely,
Jared L. Cohon President Carnegie Mellon UniversityMy brother Hunter is such a willing photo subject - I love to try out new lighting ideas with his help! I was thinking one day that our downstairs bathroom has bright red walls and also a translucent shower curtain.... which led me to the idea of putting a flash inside the shower and bouncing it out for some nice soft portrait lighting with the striking red background... Ta-Da!
I was also messing around with some cardboard and aluminum foil to make myself a 'ringflash', a device to distribute the light from my external flash around my lens for an interesting 'wrap-around' look that's kinda popular nowadays.
...which ended up with me photoshopping him here:
...maybe when he's famous and playing for the Yankees :)
I just updated the look of this blog, so if you have any questions please leave a comment on this post. Here's a photo I took last week (along with the wide one up top there):
