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Subject: SGS Photography
Hello Peter (and others):
I LOVE the photos! Especially because the website does not have many "modern looking" stained glass sundials. We will surely use some or most of them. Thank you so much for sending them. Dave and I are quite busy at the moment, but I promise that I'll get them posted soon. I hope you don't mind me giving you (and the guys on the List) a little un-asked-for photographic advise though.
I personally think that most stained glass looks better
when
there is nothing behind them but sky. An overcast sky will show the true colors of the glass the best, but is bad for glass sundials! In fact, it's very disappointing that on the majority of the photos in the website collection, we see no gnomon shadow at all, either because it was cloudy or because the gnomon is missing. A blue sky is ok and clouds may even help to may the picture more artistic. But, trees, buildings, power poles etc. are usually nothing but distractions and they will affect the true brilliant colors of the glass. (There are exceptions to this though. For example, I love the garden scene behind Dial 26 and the village scene behind Dial 5) So if you ever take any more photos, try to place the dials
higher up (Like Jim did in his photo
of his Spectra Dial) and place camera in such a way that there's a lot of sky showing behind the dial and not a lot of eye clutter. Even so, your photos are very nice and we're happy to get them! And I think the modern stained glass artists will relate to them.
Thanks so much for the additions to our collection, John John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com> SGS site: http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/sundials.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Stained Glass Info > > Good evening John, > I had a look at you excellent web-page > http://tinyurl.com/frf4 > Compliments. > Last year my friend Bernhard Franz, Germany, died > in the age of 79. He was an excellent craftman > and made a serie of stained class sundial. > I attached some fotos. which I took in the > last year. > If you think they are of common interest > put them on the stained class web page. > The sundials are now in the possesion of Bernhards son, > who is willing to sell them. > Some are in Roberts Felix sundial Shop in Basel, Switzerland. > Best regards > Peter Kunath > Tel 0049-02203-932221 Fax 0049-2203-932222 Mobil > 0049-173-2828787 > (See attached file: franz.zip) > > |
