That’s right: they’re up and ready to go at http://angelajhill.zenfolio.com/. If you have any questions or challenges ordering, please don’t hesitate to contact me at angela.hill.photography@gmail.com.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to the super-talented Nidhi who did this illustration of me as a math detective. I LOVE it! She also did a smaller icon-style one that will be showing up here in the near future…but I love this just as it is. So awesome!
This was a day I’ll never forget. Just an utterly amazing experience plus a TON of fun. What a fantastic bunch of people and an unbelievable show. Photos will be ready in about a week.
In the meantime, thanks to Emily, here we are (left to right): Gaylord Perry, me, Rollie Fingers, and Bill Lee. I’m laughing because Gaylord Perry just took his hat off and put it on my head. Earlier he offered to help me dye it “a normal color”. Turns out pink isn’t for everyone! No complaints here, though.
Hello out there, baseball fans. This Saturday (October 17, 2009), at the San Jose Giants Stadium, there’s an awesome baseball event going on. If you know me, you’ve probably heard me talk about the men’s vintage baseball team (rules and equipment from 1886!) that I do photography for. They’re the Stogies of the California Vintage Base Ball League. They’re putting on a game against some former major leaguers including Gaylord Perry, Vida Blue, Reggie Sanders, Mike McCormick, Kevin Maas, Brady Anderson, Mike Remlinger, Darrell Evans, Bobby Grich and Rollie Fingers. There’s also a Junior Giants clinic in the morning.
Tickets are $20 - $30; the game starts at 3:00 but there are festivities beforehand. I can’t think of a more all-American way to spend a day. For the ballplayers out there, it’s pretty fascinating to see the differences in the rules and equipment (I would NEVER catch in a league like this…), the sportsmanship is outstanding, and seeing these old ballplayers playing together now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
if you’re in the area, please pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested. Buy tickets and get more information at http://www.cvbbf.com. Hope to see you there–I’ll be the one on the field with the camera…
I’d get this song out of my head if I could, but so far, I haven’t been able to.
I had my first Tibetan lesson on Friday. I’m very excited about learning this language. I speak a tad of Spanish and French and seem to inexplicably understand some German, but I don’t *really* speak anything other than English. Theoretically, Tibetan is kind of ridiculous to learn…possibly even less useful than Finnish. But since I’m hoping to do lots more Tibet-related stuff, I think it will be very useful. The hardest part is learning a new alphabet that corresponds to sounds we don’t have in English. But, I’m using my synesthesia to my advantage; I realized that I can associate the sounds with colors and then work to color-code the symbols in my mind. It’s still hard, but it will be well worth it when I can speak Tibetan!
My teacher recommended these pages for assistance learning, and since I had such a hard time knowing which Tibetan language resources were most useful/usable before I started lessons, I’m including them here:
For learning how to write Tibetan script: http://chris.fynn.googlepages.com/howtowritethetibetanscript
For learning how to say the syllables: http://www.tibetanlibrary.org/library/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=93&Itemid=137&lang=en
I’ve gone through everything, finally, and have an album of photos from Tibet that I’m really happy with. I’ll probably monkey with one or two a little more, but basically I think I can put these photos to bed and focus on some newer ones! Here are a few that weren’t in the original “quick & dirty” album I put up right after I got back:
I’ve just read two outstanding photography books. I’ve been going through the entire photography section at the library (and neighboring libraries) and looking through the sections in virtually every bookstore in my path, and I’ve only bought a very few books–just the ones that I think I’ll want to refer back to. Both of these have jumped to the top of my list.
Striking Poses: Creating a Visual Dialogue is a book of environmental portraits shot all over the world, with each one accompanied by a short conversation with Max Fallon, the photographer. His focus on people and relationships as a way to tell the story of a location, to enhance what one normally sees in location photos, gave me a lot of food for thought. I enjoy shooting closeup portraits with a wide open aperture–but now I want to try doing more wide-angle portraits. I got a taste of that shooting Mina’s going-away party and I need to spend more time with that. (I also need to buy some new gear to really be able to explore it…which is its own whole quagmire.)
The absolute best photography book I’ve read since, well, ever is Masters’ Guide to Wedding Photography: Capturing Unforgettable Moments and Lasting Impressions by Marcus Bell. He’s a very successful Australian photographer. Don’t let the title fool you; although wedding photography is the explicit subject, the lessons here would apply to any type of photography with people. The images in this book were unique and timeless, but what really made the book outstanding was the balance of different styles of information–technical and artistic, personal and logistic, etc. It goes from gear info to developing relationships, then shows some ways to demonstrate and highlight relationships photographically, talks about workflow and processes, and gets into step-by-step descriptions for selecting and creating master images. After reading it, I went back through all of my Tibet photos and did selects and edits, and now I feel like I have a real album. Then there were some great ideas about client management, marketing, and sales. It just hit all of the bases and did so in a way that was thoroughly relatable and highly educational. Outstanding!
