I'm back! OK, I never really went away, but my following of and participation in the List has been very minimal of late. The last month of this semester has been crazy. I just finished my last project yesterday (using SMIL, Synchronized Multimedia Markup language - interesting stuff). I'm now half way to my masters degree. Whew!
I've also had a couple of *very* good gigs come through: Several shoots for a local nature guides group: I'm shooting new photos, scanning and restoring old slides and building new electronic presentations. 10 in all, over the course of about a year. At a very nice pay rate :) I'll also be teaching a course at the university this summer (ironically in audio recording and production, not photography). Hoping for more in the future. As an aside, I may have mentioned in the past about doing an audio project for a local woman, assembling recordings she'd made on cassette over the years, featuring herself and her son (both talented singers). She wanted to create a "legacy project" for her kids, kind of a scrapbook, but in sound instead of pictures. I got paid pretty well for it but two days before she was due to come and get the final discs she had a heart attack and died. I gave the discs to her son, who was very appreciative. This was about three weeks ago. So anyway, it's been an interesting couple of months. I finally got a few minutes to do some photo work for myself today: I put a few of my black & white shots from last year's GFM on line: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/gfm_bw.htm Pentax 645 45mm, 75mm and 200mm lenses Ilford Pan-F Now I'm ready for PDML UK in London on Saturday! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
