Video of the "International Exhibition 2020" at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography

Below is a Facebook video from the Glasgow Gallery of Photography that shows a walk through of the International Exhibition 2020 (or IE2020). I have a print visible around the 0:05 mark (actually, directly above the play button in the cover image of the video below):

IE2020 EXHIBITION

Quick tour of the IE20 Exhibition. 👀

Posted by The Glasgow Gallery of Photography on Saturday, August 22, 2020

Here are some photos of the exhibition if you missed it.

New Photo Book

Two weeks ago, I stepped foot inside of my local St. Paul Public Library for the first time since early March. (Thanks COVID.) I walked back to the photo section and found a book about Mathew Brady right next to "Capturing the Light" which I read a few months ago:

I brought it home:

I'm 4 chapters in, and I actually took it to both of my photography classes to read a bit from it because it related directly to our discussion.

I think I've read more photo books this year than in the last many years combined: that started with "Chase the Light" (which was still the best one [most entertaining]), and then "L. J. M. Daguerre: The Worlds First Photographer and Inventor of the Daguerreotype" (which I shared parts of here and here), and also "Speculating Daguerre".

So far, this book by Robert Wilson is a bit dry, and there isn't much known about Brady's life, so there's not the personal details like those from "Chase the Light" that I enjoyed so much about Talbot and Daguerre. But it was a nice continuation from the historically earlier books that I read this past winter.

"Nerdy Week" and a Gift From My Boss

Last week, I posted this on Instagram:

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I’m hoarse from speaking loudly through my mask and over the A/C in my long classroom, but this will forever be one of my favorite days of teaching. Also, I couldn’t gather my entire class around 1 small table to discuss these old photos (we sighed as we talked about the innocence of pre-COVID), so I put them on the back ledge and paraded my students past to see them. #EverythingHasChanged #TeachingStillHappens #RemoteOrInPerson #WeCanFindAWay #WereAllInThisTogether

And to be clear, *that day* wasn’t my favorite day ever, but each semester, *this discussion* of camera functions is always a (nerdy) blast.

Also, I had a goody box waiting for me:

That's a handful of disposable masks, a nice cloth reuseable mask, my own white board eraser, 2 of my own white board markers, and a pack of sanitizing wipes. There's (obviously) a big list of extra precautions every university is taking, and among ours are students and faculty being masked, no sharing of white board markers or erasers, and wiping down computers/offices before and after using them.

New Employment Training

Last month, as I was preparing to teach at a university where I'd never taught before, I had to take a few "workplace training" courses and tests. Here was a question about student's privacy with regards to FERPA:

Apparently that was the wrong answer. (I just liked the visual it put in my head.)

Monthly Challenge 8 of 12: Summer iPhone Shots

Since summer is over, I thought I'd gather some "cute" photos that I snapped with my phone while out on adventures with my boys these last few months.

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Between 2 storms while camping along Big Stone Lake.


Wheat near Ortonville.


Filtered sun on Lake Winnibigoshish.


Sunset near Deer River.


Round bales and stormy skies near Cromwell.


Sunset on Lake Mary.


Mushroom among washed-out roots along the Mississippi River in Fort Snelling.