My brother Charlie, an artist, enjoys photography. Most artists show talent early in life. Charlie, not so. He did not do much artistically until he took up stained glass as a young man. He returned to it a few years ago and has produced some wonderful pieces (I have a few). I know I've featured some on this blog.
Last summer, he visited and stayed with us while doing some business. He attended a session my photography class with me that I took at a local community college. We both had "a little better than average but not SLR" digital cameras. I told him that he would find out what his camera would not do. He enjoyed the class immensely and the first thing he did when he returned home was buy a good SLR for himself.
We did some letterboxing with Melina and my friend Lee. We had to drag him out of the woods because he was so busy taking pictures.
He sent me several turkey pictures today. He wrote
I was taking some pictures of some flowers at Cantigny Gardens for my “Photography Exposure” class, when these boys came “a strutting” along.Needless to say that it was the female behind me (whom I did not see until later), and not yours truly, that these boys were trying to impress …
The iridescence almost hurts your eyes. Great job of capturing the image.
I had an exciting Maier Zunder moment today. A descendant had written me several months ago and said that his dad was interested in MZ. I've been bugging him for his dad's contact information for months and finally got an email address last week. I wrote and his dad replied, said he had lots of materials and was NOT tired of talking about Maier Zunder (as opposed to my family) and we set up a time to talk later in the week. Yay!
I think we are third cousins. His great grandfather is Theodore and my great grandmother is Delia, both children of Maier. I'm handicapped as my grandmother Regina was an only child so no second cousins.
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