Our Perpetual Calendar
My grandmother made a perpetual calendar
more than 40 years ago. Hers was a hand embroidered wall hanging with
velcro on the numbers so they could be changed each month. Each month
had its own embroidered circle that got move to the top center position
for that month.
I got to thinking of a perpetual calendar made from all
the photographs of New Mexico we have accumulated over the years. With
modern computer tools it seems like that would be a very doable
project. It would be especially interesting to combine the photographs
of New Mexico landscapes and architecture with phrases and sayings that
compliment the images.
Making this a reality will have to await the time when
my Photoshop skills are up to it and there is time to sort through and
scan the photographs we would use for our perpetual calendars.
My plans for perpetual calendars depends on having LOTS of good pictures. The same is true of many ofther sites I am building. To that end I purchased a good SLR digital camera, a pair of strobe lights and a soft-box. I was really discouraged a first. The pre-flash on the camera set off the strobes. That was solved by finding a place where the pre-flash could be overriden. Porcelain figures were still showing to many hot spots, so I covered the on-camera flash with a tissue and that toned it down. Next I will test Picasa2 to see if it can work as my photo manager for all these images.