{"id":573892224,"date":"2020-05-26T22:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T02:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892224"},"modified":"2020-05-27T23:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T03:52:19","slug":"well-that-settles-it-i-need-a-better-light-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/05\/26\/well-that-settles-it-i-need-a-better-light-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Well that settles it, I need a better light box"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I was walking around and found a big mound of pea gravel at one of the near condominiums. I like that gravel. It always reminds me of home, traipsing around in creeks, playing in the woods, filling days with the wonder and curiosity of a child with far too much energy and enthusiasm. <\/p>\n

I could stand beside a stream and peer through those rocks for ages, looking for interesting shapes and colors, hoping to find a cool arrowhead and never doing it. But always finding crinoids<\/a> and being fascinated by them. (I found those last month, and now there’s something else to collect. I’ll try to do it without lamenting all of those that I put back over the years.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, those rocks always make me think of summers and things I had and people I’ve lost and wishing for ways to get them back, if only in your mind and only for a moment. <\/p>\n

And this weekend I found a few that had some nice sedimentary pieces. The color changes were interesting.<\/p>\n

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I saved the best ones for last, so keep scrolling. <\/p>\n

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And here’s the thing to notice here. Look how the photo quality changes. <\/p>\n

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These are all in a cardboard light box. You can see tons of DIY guides online<\/a>, and I was just rushing through this today, but the point of a light box is quality and consistency. <\/p>\n

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This one isn’t getting it done anymore. And the rushing didn’t help. Plus, you’re always just working around an extra cardboard box.<\/p>\n

Instead of all of that, I’m going to wind up making a more substantial, third version. Because the subjects in them should all look like this:<\/p>\n

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That rock is cool and that picture is great. The background blends right in to the page’s background, which is the point. <\/p>\n

I know this is what you’re here for, random observations about half-baked projects, and pictures of even more random objects. I could have told you about today’s sweaty run or this morning’s Zoom meeting. Or the Zoom meeting that came after that. I wonder if I could run during a Zoom meeting. There’s always the emailing. I can get 300 words discussing email as easy as putting on a comfortable t-shirt. I could write another 450 or so words out of how many of them don’t get replies. <\/p>\n

I started watching a documentary in Spanish! We could discuss that. And I’m looking forward to a bike ride tomorrow.<\/p>\n

This evening was the highlight of the day. We had a two-hour Zoom chat with some of our students, just for fun. It’s so nice to hear from them and see them interact with one another and to watch them laugh.<\/p>\n

The theme tonight was show and tell, and it was a big hit. One guy showed off a choice baseball jersey from his massive collection. Another showed a cool bat collection he has, including one he got at his bar mitzvah. Someone talked about a really cool plant, there was a camera and some celebrity photos. One guy showed us his grandfather’s sailing trophies, which was also really cool.<\/p>\n

Show and tell, it turns out, is still pretty awesome. Give it a try. And if your crowd isn’t receptive to it, consider the crowd.<\/p>\n

I didn’t show off these rocks. Maybe next time I’ll show off a new light box. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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