The Ground Glass, Inc. is a group of photographers that meet in Westchester County, NY. http://thegroundglass.org/ Ground Glass info & member names in red. -bacon, olive oil, paper towels, vanilla ice Sept., 2014 cream (better than Breyers), Kirkland Signa- ture trash bags.

Here’s a link that might be of interest to a photographer traveling to India: http://travel.siliconindia.com/news/Top-Most- If interested in participating in New York Beautiful-Places-of-Landscape--i Photo Festival, go to n-India-aid-3925.html. http://nyph.at/PhotoWorld2014.

BTW; The geologic history of the Deccan “Nature, Historical Architecture and Land- Traps is well worth a read: scape Photography on Lake Erie Islands”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps. program #21772JRH by Road Scholar.

“Exhibition of Panoramic Landscapes by Wil- liam Lulow” at Club Fit Briarcliff, 584 North State Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY, Sept. 2 - 30. Meet the artist Sunday, Sept. 7, from 1 to 4 pm.

ConsumerReports on Costco. CR rates the following Kirkland products very highly:

! 1 Pat thinks that some reader might find a Guide to Facebook Business Page Timelines might be of interest to someone: http://offers.hubspot.com/guide-to-facebook- business-page-timelines?utm_campaign=Kick back+Email&utm_source=email&

Wonder what a critique of a photo book results in, in Iran? http://petapixel.com/2014/08/18/photographer s-iran-sentenced-75-lashes-giving-officials-ph oto-book-bad-reviews/

The in less than 5 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGUL8B-BrE

Selfies in the 19th century? Skillful and amusing: http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/16592-1.ht http://alexandracameronphotography.blogspot ml .com/2011/12/feature-interview-365-days-joel -robison.html. Hey! You’ll love this surprise sent us by the Y.F.E.s’s friend Wendie: 360º panoramas app for iOS: www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/44UC6m http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-lau uN8KY?rel=0. nches-photo-sphere--app-for-ios-5787 92.

! 2 You may have seen these already, but they’re so good, you’ll want to see them again: http://121clicks.com/inspirations/50-great-bla ck-white-photos-part-1. Thanks, Pat.

How to pet your pet porcupine. Sent by Carla Rae Johnson: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=704 032549669598&set=vb.126855987387260&t ype=2&theater. iPhone accessory lens ‘reviews’: http://iphonephotographyschool.com/moment -lens-first-reviews/.

www.freestylephoto.biz/ analog and digital photo supplies.

“Leica Launches M-P to Strip Photography Back to ‘Essentials’”: www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news/ 540911/leica-launches-m-p-to-strip-photograp hy-back-to-essentials From Time Lightbox, “Surrealist of the Spanish Civil War”: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/20/kati-horn a-spanish-civil-war/.

Another good’un gone; Rebecca Lepkoff, 98. Read about her at www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php ?articleno=10502&page=1

! 3 All New York Jews of Y.F.E.’s generation know what lucksh’n kugel is; sweet noodle pudding with raisins. Y.F.E. recently came across a commercially prepared lucksh’n kugel at DeCicco’s in Armonk. Unfortunately, they didn’t have it a few days ago when shopping there. BUT, Y.F.E., finding himself in the Golden Horseshoe Shopping Center at the north end of Wilmot Rd. in Scarsdale, took a chance and went into the kosher store Season there, and found their own brand on a shelf in a cooler! He’ll try it out for desert “The Best of Scotland” is the title of Road ASAP. Scholar program #20881RJ. Here’s what a hunk of lucksh’n kugel should www.roadscholar.org/n/program/summary.asp look like: x?id=1%2D689CXX. (A tarn is a lake or pond in a depression formed by glacial scouring of the bedrock.)

Photo Sphere Camera now available for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id904418768?mt =8 www.jimclinephototours.com/ for more photo tours. FYI: the address of the Golden Horseshoe is 1112 Wilmot Rd., Scarsdale. www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave-lieberm an/noodle-kugel-recipe.html is a YouTube demo. PS: Y.F.E. might have added a bit of vanilla extract.

www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1051176/ video-the-paris-of-toulouse-lautrec-at-moma takes one to a video about the Toulouse- Lautrec exhibition at MoMA.

A bit of music: Bach’s Oboe Concerto 1059-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FII7K1_WzBE.

! 4 For those interested in a virtual exhibition, read the Mission Statement of Gallery 25N: http://gallery25n.com/G25N_Mission_Statem ent.html.

Y.F.E., owner of a Sony RX100 mk II, was not surprised to read the following in an imaging-resource.com review of the RX100 mk III: “Really, the Sony RX100 III is an in- credibly easy camera to recommend - at least if you can justify its cost. There are no two ways about it; by fixed-lens camera standards, this is a pretty pricey little device. That’s true By John Naughton: “Why I love my Leica”: for a reason, though, because other than its www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug own siblings, this camera doesn’t have any /24/why-i-love-my-leica-john-naughton-phot clear rival. Image quality is in a different ography-camera-technology-cartier-bresson league to anything else this portable and pocket-friendly, and performance is superb A IIIf, Y.F.E.’s first Leica model too.”

An M3, Y.F.E.’s last Leica model

“It’s a clear Dave’s Pick, just as were its predecessors, and we think it’s pretty clear that the Sony RX100 III is the best pocket- friendly compact on the market today.”

Happy 100th, Leica! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2 014/aug/24/100-years-of-the-leica-camera-in- Karen Johnson, Red Circle member, will be pictures. participating in a show “Elements” at Loft Artists Association from 12 Sept. to 19 Oct.

! 5 Opening reception is 12 Sept., 5:30 to 8:30. The gallery’s address is 575 Pacific St., Stam- 6 b/w pix by Mary Ellen Mark: ford, CT. www.featureshoot.com/2014/08/mary-ellen- Visit Karen Johnson’s website: marks-man-beast-celebrates-stories-two-coun http://carewrenj.500px.com/. tries-40-year-span/

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/ taylor-swifts-shake-it-off-video-a-dance-critic s-take/?_php=true&_type=blogs&alg=49JRR &_r=0 is, apparently controversial. A critique follows.

Attention! the site http://www.thegroundglass.org/ is open for business, thanks to Ruth! Members will have also received notice from Ruth about showing work at the Sept. 10th And, for something completely different: Show-and-Tell. Alan Cohen’s show at Temple Beth El, 1324 North Ave., New Rochelle. Reception on Sunday, Sept. 14th from 2 to 4.

A bunch of photos designed to amuse: http://itcolossal.com/photos-optical-illusions/.

! 6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5EcebrTqMI for YouTube documentary about John. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aQsNLUYC5I for John performing with The Dust Busters.

Here’s a lovely musical interlude: www.youtube.com/watch?v=emSId0_BWLE. It’s Milos Karadoglic playing Bach’s Lute Suite No. 2 in C minor, Prelude.

Historic aerial imagery from Google Earth 5: www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/02/ google_earth_5_historical_imagery.html.

The New York Historical Society will be showing “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” from Nov. 21 through Feb. 22. One may read about it at www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1050913/ annie-leibovitz-pilgrimage-to-open-at-nyhs. --1950s--Hong Kong: For the few who might be interested, here’s a http://petapixel.com/2014/08/25/fan-hos-incre link to the article “Canon EOS DSLR Autofo- dible-black-and-white-street-photography-of- cus Explained”: 1950s-hong-kong/ www.the-digital-picture.com/Photography-Ti ps/canon-eos-dslr-autofocus-explained.aspx.

! 7 Of some interest: www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photographer-ac cused-of-child--responds-with-an -art-show/.

Read all about it; Edward Weston Photos to Be Auctioned” (at Sotheby’s): http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/ edward-weston-photos-to-be-auctioned/. www.aquila-style.com/focus-points/global-sn apshots/stunning-photographs-reflect-the-bea uty-of-ancient-mosques/76901/

Camera obscura photography with a by Jürgen Lechner: www.thephotoargus.com/photographers/came ra-obscura/

A slide show of photographs taken in ancient mosques:-

! 8 Rick Falco’s Vision Project sends out an invi- exhibition PHOTOcentric indicates that Pat tation to get involved with the project work- has work in it. The show dates are Sept. 13 - shop “Project Morocco”, which runs from 28, with the reception on Sept. 12 from 5 to 7. Dec. 26 to January 7. www.visionproject.org/workshops_study_abr oad/morocco.htm for info.

Some work by Walter Rabetz, titled “The Agora: The Peekskill Coffee House” has been

“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photogra- phers and the Emergence of a People”: http://throughalensdarkly.wordpress.com/.

www.fubiz.net/2014/08/26/insect-photograph y-with-electron-microscope/ takes one to a site that is of science and of art at the same time.

made into a book. He’ll be present at the Cof- fee House, at 101 South Division Street from 11am to 1pm on Thursday, September 4th. http://walterrabetz.com/home.html.

The announcement of Garrison Art Center’s

! 9 Y.F.E. is pleased to learn that Hal is having work in the 37th Annual Members’ Show at the Carriage Barn Arts Center. The show runs from Saturday, September 13th to Sunday, October 5th. (Hal tells us that he’ll be away on Sat., Sept. ternational Center of Photography (ICP) to 13, the date of the reception.) put those images online and invites the public to help us learn more about Vishniac’s photo- graphs.” www.ushmm.org/research/research-in-collecti ons/overview/photo-archives/vishniac-collecti on.

For “Street Art: 111 Most Interesting Photos”- http://itcolossal.com/street-art/. Here’s one--

The Carriage Barn Arts Center’s address is 681 South Ave., New Canaan Ct., in Waverny Park.

“The photographer Roman Vishniac created some of the most iconic images of Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust, documenting a world that would soon vanish. He also chronicled the rise of Nazism and the after- math of World War II. However, the public Claire Fishman has work in the KMAA has never had the opportunity to appreciate show “Natural Instincts: The Natural World the breadth and depth of his work--of Vish- Around Us” at the Ward Pound Ridge Reser- niac’s 10,000 negatives, only about 350 have vation. The opening reception is on Sat., Sept. been published. The Museum [US Holocaust 13, 1-4pm. The dates of the run of the show Memorial Museum] has worked with the In- aren’t given in the KMAA announcement.

! 10 Article of interest: “How Smartphones Have Changed the Way We Experience Photogra- phy”: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/27/smartph one-photography-at-woodstock/?iid=lf%7Car ound.

New ‘serious’ compact camera from Fujifilm; “7 Clever Smartphone Photography Tricks”: the X30. Here’s a hands-on preview: www.picturecorrect.com/tips/7-clever-smartp www.ephotozine.com/article/fujifilm-x30-han hone-photography-tricks/. One or two of them ds-on-preview-26035. are actually clever!

Fixed Ricoh GR review:

www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/ricoh-gr /ricoh-grA.HTM#.

As one can see from the above, it has an eye- Am iPhone app that tells one the golden hour level view finder. on any date and any place on earth, for $1.99. http://prmac.com/release-id-70176.htm.

! 11 FYI--This year, the dates of the Jewish holi- Arnie will be in booth G-03 at the Armonk days of Rosh Hashana (The Jewish New Outdoor Art Show on Sat. & Sun., Sept. 20, Year) is Sept. 25-26, and Yom Kippur (The 21. Show hours are 10am - 5pm. Day of Atonement) is Oct. 4. BTW, this means that Rosh Hashana begins at sundown http://hyperallergic.com/145708/how-not-to- on the 24th and ends at sundown on the 26th. write-about-women-artists/ is about what the URL says; “How Not to Write About Women Artists”. It compares Boris Friedwald’s book with one by Naomi Rosenblum.

A show of photo- graphs printed us- ing an alternative process Y.F.E. has Rosh HaShanah, like most Jewish holidays, never heard of--at has food customs associated with it. One of the Mamaroneck the most popular and well-known food cus- Artists Guild: toms on Rosh HaShanah has to do with dip- ping apple slices into honey. This sweet com- bination stems from an age-old Jewish tradi- tion of eating sweet foods to express our hope for a sweet new year. https://artswestchester.org/events/oronero-201 4-09-03/.

Attention! the show “Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: Tow American Photographers in Britain and Ireland” at the Yale Center for British Art ends after Sept. 14! A review: www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/arts/design/br uce-davidson-and-paul-caponigro-images-at- http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/pho yale.html?src=twr. tographs-that-make-a-difference/ is about the work of Bob Adelman, documentary photog- Ground Glass has joined an association of rapher, now Photographer in Residence at the photo orgs called the Hudson Valley Photog- Library of Congress. raphy Network. At least one benefit will be the sharing of info on speakers and events. Amongst the 7 solo shows in Soho Photo’s Here’s a link to their website: opening of the new season is Rita’s, titled www.hvphotonet.org/ “On the Gypsy Row”. The show runs form Sept. 3 through Oct. 2. The reception is on If you haven’t yet, take a peep at Thurs., Sept. 4 from 6 to 8pm. www.thegroundglass.org/.

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