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Crown of Characters
2011-12-15 I liberated this fantastic piece of metal from a typewriter slated for the trash bin. I set in on a hard drive platter that I still had lying around from Tuesday's photo. I like how the characters actually appear correctly in the reflection - right side up and not flipped. I also like how unmistakably metallic it is. The hardest part about creating this photo was the prep work. I spent a good 15 minutes bent over the sink with a toothbrush to scrub all of the ink out of the numerous and tiny crevices. Update for RuSu - Indeed! It came from an IBM Correcting Selectric II. What a great name. 2nd update - Apparently it's called a typewheel. [last year]
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![<span id="date">_11/19/10_</span> <span id="title">Rotunda</span>
Here's my first super wide angle daily, using the Tokina 11-16 I rented. I had promised another for yesterday, but I did my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> instead.
This is the rotunda in Powell Library at UCLA. It's pretty vast, so it's a good subject for an ultra wide lens. I shot a few other places on campus that I thought might benefit from this lens, but conditions were pretty bad.
This is the last SLR daily photo for a week - tomorrow we fly to Hawaii! Thanks for all the well wishes. I'll try to keep posting daily photos via iPhone during the trip.
Cheers!
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#718573502_DvNZq">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Powell220/i-2nL59WX/2/b142b868/Ti/2010-11-19%20Rotunda-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_09/02/10_</span> <span id="title">Hearty Pages</span>
Get it? The pages look like a heart. It's very clever. I am sure I am the first person to have thought of it.
Sarcasm aside, it does look cool and I wanted to give it a try myself. Turns out the pages don't align themselves very well when you do so many, although that might be due to the super-thin pages of this Bible that I used for the shot. I actually kind of like the irregularity.
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![<span id="date">_06/27/10_</span> <span id="title">Typing</span>
As you may have seen from <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#914606053_3Sv6K">yesterday</a>'s photo, my parents came to visit! It was a short visit but we had a good time. They brought me some things that belonged to my grandfather, including a Remington Standard typewriter. It's not super-old, but it is fully manual. For this photo, I used my macro lens and a simple on-camera bounce flash while pressing down some of the keys. It's such a mechanically complex piece of equipment - I'll certainly take some more photos of it in the future.
At the risk of making some of you feel extra old, I'm pretty sure I'd never used a typewriter until yesterday! If I have, I don't remember it. It's fun, though - the main thing that struck me is how much harder you have to press the keys compared to a computer keyboard.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#575803468_ZQi8P">[last year]</a> <em>rawr...</em>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Powell220/i-FWVHVdr/3/5066a31f/Ti/2010-06-27%20Typewriter-Ti.jpg)
jrogers
on December 17, 2011very interesting & well done.
photofreak
on December 17, 2011Very cool and creative!
fotoeffects
on December 17, 2011You did good! Love the light and comp, as well as the b/w conversion.
Lgood
on December 16, 2011Amazing!!!
fotomom
on December 16, 2011What a fantastic idea! The B&W tones and reflection are just right!
nelli
on December 16, 2011love it
RuSu
on December 16, 2011Beautiful execution - IBM?
Ωi
on December 16, 2011Well worth the effort, this is quality thinking and execution, bravo.