A pic of the gadget here with explanation
some wont figure it out:)
This will be for a phone holder I will put on Mt Pleasant so people can take photos of themselves n their gang.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Alumni Photo Project
At the fair they might have been a badge maker booth. If so they will likely go to the Pumpkin Show next,
Someone could walk by and see what they are doing and the cost.
I would guess you have contact with people in the high school. They have photography and math classes I'll bet they would help you figure out costs.
If it were done at the fair, the photos would be taken on the spot, with a printer present.
With a bit of practice the distance from the camera would be a constant. They could have time to walk around a little while and it would be ready when they got back
OR you know people who own businesses that people could stop in and pick their badges up.
They could be made all year around for different occasions
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I don't know where the alumni is located but for photo connections
At proms, school events the art classes create decorations that visitors walking by at the fair could just set in front of have their pics taken, while a little info was collected
This info could be uploaded to a free google blog that are searchable .. thee could be thousands of entries that would find all matches in a few seconds.
I would guess the alumni would gather lots of attention with a little project .
I had been out of high school for 50 years before I knew the LHS alumni existed, I found it by trying to find out what happened to our park teacher at Utica Park.
Photography is my hobby and I take lots of pics of people on Mount Pleasant. Here is one of them
https://mtp-2022.blogspot.com/
Some times I add notes and have been able to find some pics for people much later.
IF you guys want to go through a dry run, I will help set it up and you can have it set up for the next fair.
I only go to places where I can take my dog .. almost went to the fair Friday, couldn't find a parking place to go on top of mt pleasant and was gonna pay to park
If you do make the photo project happen at the fair next year, I will donate $200. to it.. I can buy a used computer from amazon for that much and do everything on it.
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If you love Mount Pleasant too, you are welcome to our
Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/mtpview
As parks go, Rising Park is great, but it is Mount Pleasant that brings people here.If u r into Yoga, these girls have classes on Mt. P. :)
https://www.facebook.com/Kristina.buzolith.Blevins
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I had some badges made of Mount Pleasant (seen from Forest Rose) in the background, Lancaster in the foreground and Kookie.
These r for others who love photography and a few for those who were brave enough to give Kookie pets.
Kind of a purple heart metal for those wounded in action :)
Don't know if I will see em again but I have a few left in case.
2024 Eclipse
Imagination and things to come
I was here on the partial eclipse and the top of mt pleasant was packed
EVEN if the clouds are spoilers, it will be a big event
Who should be interested in this event, chamber of commerce, the fairgrounds, every high school, visitfairfieldcounty ..
Groups wanting to promote tourism a great draw hmmm
There might be classes on astro photography, how to photograph the event. A great time to get kids interested into astronomy .. but starting the fall of 2013, because it will happen in their school year.
I can see camping sites set up in the fairgrounds, vendors high school bands
it will be a major event here and across the eclipse path
I took these from the fairgrounds the last time. Don't know if they think they will be closer to the sun but the top of Mt P will be packed I am thinking 😋
Have lots of eclipse glasses ready :)
Goofy people have eclipse parties, special events to coincide with.. it
The coming 2024 eclipse is much closer and I figure it will be kind of like this one
If you can think of any group or business that would be interested in gearing up for the big one you can share this page by clicking one of the small icons below
Pilgrimage to Mount Pleasant
There are places much higher and further away, but this look out point is special to those on our own turf.
I have photographed from the top of it and photographed it from below.
A long time ago I saw a pic of a bunch of band members standing on top and one day when I took my big telephoto to town, I saw these guys spread across the entire top.
I thought there should be an annual pilgrimage to the top
Thinking it should be a nice day when school is out but not the first 2 weeks because lots of kids are having their graduation party there.
June 23rd the official day of the climb to the mount.
But it should be during the week end, with a nice day.
It can be any time of the day (about an hour before sunset is what I like best)
If you join this facebook group you can post your pics there or get a notification of the event as a reminder. https://www.facebook.com/groups/302659221096890
[ When I join some groups of interest, I turn off notifications and can visit when I get froggy ]
Searching for Mount Pleasant, there are so many .. which one.
I have managed to add the identification of Mount Pleasant in Rising Park, to Google maps HERE. You can add your own review to this map and best photos or video. (don't post a bunch of the same thing) 😏
If you post on Instagram and use the tag #risingpark, I visit there when I am home. Sometimes I take pics of people with their cameras and don't see em.
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As time moves on, friends and family members scatter all over the place. When they come back to visit they can not visit with all the people they would like to. I have taken pics of those who returned and make it a point to come up on Mt. P. to take in the view.. to show their kids where they grew up.
It does not be on top but if you make a date with school mates, friends n family to have a picnic in Rising Park, you could visit with all of em.
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INVITATION TO VISIT MT P 3RD WEEKEND N JUNE
If all the park visitors I have taken pics of were standing on top.. hmmm.
Stuff people post on Instagram
Camera choice
Buying a camera on line or even in a store can be a problem.
If you go in a store and stand they have other customers and they want to move on.
Nothing out, it is all in a box, when you get it home gotta make sure every thing is there. If not you have to pack it up take it to ship it back.
The Sony a65 has been great for me but having problems.
I asked support groups on facebook and no response.
I have been in chat for 30 minutes where someone says wait till I check...
I guess the best way would to find someone who has the cameras you are considering.. so I will try our hometown photographers club.
I can't keep glasses on. I buy them in the 3 packs.
I need a camera that
#1 allows you to review images taken in the viewfinder NOT the lcd
#2 All data displayed on the lcd can also be seen in the viewfinder.
#3 Has time lapse
#4 Built in flash
#5 Quick response, no delay after pressing the shutter button.
Here one person thinks the Canon R50 might show taken photos in the viewfinder but dont have this same camera..
If anyone in your group happens to have a canon r50 and might take the time to dabble, simply take a few pics, close the lcd screen and find out if those pics can be reviewed in the viewfinder.
Thanks
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Pow Wow
Lancaster Ohio
Fairfield County
June 25th
After we get out of school some move far away. Through jobs or groups other connections are made.
Sometimes the thought of seeing them again pops up but it is not likely to happen.
My kid came to visit from out of state once but wanted to see others from her past .. it rained on the day of our planning.
I thought what if .. what if long before the planned pow wow we gave invitations to those connections to gave a picnic at our local park.
( a few pics of the park that I have taken )
The difference in this picnic anyone invited could invite their families n friends for the pow wow.. bring food n games.
Bunches here have been on Mount Pleasant but visitors find it pretty cool. ( some like me come often)
.I think we have a shelter house reserved by the playground so there is a place for kids to play.
I think they have fishing at the pond too.
When the clouds play nice.. if you are froggy you can soak in the sunset with your pals.
On Google maps HERE
. The thought sharing the idea with your friends n family well ahead of time.. Put your plan in place 😋
Weekend CRUISING
Riding around on the weekends and listening to the radio was cool when I was a pup. There were lots of songs about cars.
I like music from the generations that came after me but I don't remember many songs about drag racing .. cruising around with your pals.
What ever your generation .. if they were still riding around beeping their horns n surfing through drive ins, what songs would your pals be playing?
If you are from the Lancaster Ohio area, have pics of cool cars then or now that I can add to this page,
I created this facebook for that
https://www.facebook.com/groups/weekendcruising
What to do when the sun goes down in Lancaster Ohio
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In 2020 during the virus caper someone called for a cruse in and the parking lots were full of people hanging out like back in the day n I drove around with my pup taking pics 😋
Knowing the science of weekend cruising I did a quick paste up of a route
Not just those with cool cars were in to it but all of them were part of the ride.
Guys n girls of all ages loved the ride then and now.
How to organize ... hmmm
* In your school fb groups
* In your school fb groups
* Make up some flyers to share at car shows (just here in Lancaster) . to people you will know and those working there
* Going through the ride route stopping in food places.. I would bet they would go along and have cruse night specials.
* Car parts places, cycle shops
* There is a new food place that opened up out by the Tractor Supply... Jimmy's Drive (now a truck) they might get into it.
* Mobile food stands, every once in a while I see them popping up in some space with good traffic. They might get in on the cruse nights, finding locations along with the cruse trail.
Some of the places along the route are parking lots to mingle .. places to get gas (those stations might put up flyers)
Me thinking what a fun thing to bring it back for all generations and the kids who only saw it in the movies.
Going to car shows n looking at fancy works of others.. take some pics with the cars, it is OK but hanging out on the streets n parking spots with others after dark.. that is the magic to capture.
Not just those with super cars but the average bears crusing through the streets ... all were parked in the hot spots on weekend nights.
Going to car shows n looking at fancy works of others.. take some pics with the cars, it is OK but hanging out on the streets n parking spots with others after dark.. that is the magic to capture.
Not just those with super cars but the average bears crusing through the streets ... all were parked in the hot spots on weekend nights.
I'll bet one of the radio stations would jump in and take the roll of wolf man jack.. well kind of 😋
I don't know who got the event started (the mayor?) but Kookie n me was just on the way to Walmart n I thought what great pics to capture. If you know any of these guys tell em where they can copy their pics :)
Weekend cruising in Lancaster Ohio
A fun idea .. share the page if u wanna ..
Photo Goals
Here we have a beloved "mountain" where people come to stand and watch the sunset.
Directly below is our fairground.
There are thousands of pics taken of it and from the top of it.
I have taken thousands of pics.. posted a bunch. Often people like n comment but in a short time they vanish on a hard drive never to be seen again.
After a hard drive crash I decided to have some of the pics I like best to make large metal 20x30 prints.
I have made a few no-edit enlargements and have some imaginary images to create.
With my google map, I can see which pics people view most n abstract pics get lots :)
The moon gigantic in my pshop version but the target is capturing the full moon, zoomed in, another pic of the stars and the view of the city below and combine them in a composite.
Our fairgrounds lit up for Christmas, a one time event the year before the virus
The city after a snow
I have returned a couple of times but this the one time I captured the 'perfect' pic of our mountain from Forest Rose.
Spring from the fairgrounds
I suppose there are iconic spots every where. Watching pics posted on social media, at times people are in the right place at the right time to capture great photos (by chance)
Sharing with others is great. With photopills (if I ever figure it out) I will be able to share coming events where cool shots can be taken)
With the Pentax I can geotag these iconic views and be able to capture the milky way, star trails
With pshop I can blend images, enhance stars and create photos I imagine.
Google maps, albums and other tools are a major help in planning.
The weather... tricky but knowing what the potential sky/atmosphere conditions will give a clue to packing the stuff or playing on the computer.
I am not so froggy now, old n slowing down but want to create two large prints this year,
On social media there must be many others like me that have iconic places people take photos of. Schools, photo clubs to.
You might figure coming photo events and share them with your community.
People who share the same interest, love to gather in the presence of others to do it.
I went to the John Glenn astronomy place to get a clue of what they were doing .. several were there with their equipment.
On the way home I got a flat and pulled in the entrance of Old Man's Cave to get off the road. Before a ranger came and helped me out, I looked at the sky and it was just as dark in the parking lot as where they gathered to set up their equipment.
I figure most people thinking about selling photos and some do. I don't have such goals... just think about some photo I want to create next and how I might share my love of photography with others.
My website risingpark.blogspot.com
My photo subject: Mount Pleasant in Rising Park.
I guess you could drive around the city or use a map program to find a spot you could get a view of your favorite landmark or, because light travels in a straight line, you could go to that spot and take pics of places you could see and from that spot you could see the places your were standing.
I did that and I will be able to record those places, their azimuth and elevation with the gps unit.
Die hard photographers with $$$ might travel a great distance to capture their iconic shot, but after the booking, planning the clouds might pull a joke on em.
If there are photographers not far from our turf, they could plan events, then if the weather people do not goof up.. pack your stuff n come on down.
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Photopills is for phones and is about $10, you might understand better but.. here is where I started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-n7y9ud6g&t=902s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jym0ARAV7f4
Risingpark group for those who love Mt Pleasant https://www.facebook.com/groups/302659221096890
From what I can figure out, standing on Forest Rose, these are the views of the Moon and Mt Pleasant.
The meanings of the color moons, time of day and phase of the moon.
Domains Bages
Domains, badges, slide shows n stuff.
MUSIC SLIDE SHOW SPANNING THE YEARS
I found the alumni did produce a school song (never heard any student body wing it) If the first yearbook was in 1907 ...
choosing an iconic pic of each yearbook dissolving it into the next with that song or words might make a nice video.
You can integrate stills and videos. The last time I went to Mt. P. I was just gonna take photos but the clouds looked nice.. I did not have a solid support for the camera so this one was shaky.. but it is how video/pics can be combined https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTZwfRU1YOY
In your video production you could use your own music.. maybe alumni people with talent.
There might need be an expansion on the words. Because of the trees and inability to get back far enough our school has no great photos, maybe a photoshopper could create one.
As our schools r fading in the past and soon an new one .. videos could be expanded. You can create a play list on youtube and arrange the sequence
DOMAINS
Domains are markers on a hard drive.. .net, .edu, .org .. .com was sought at most If you copied the link from this group or most others it would be looooong.
Below is one on your page, that long domain name kind of hard to remember but if the link was to your domain, all of this could be given. Your main page having links to events, yearbooks.. what ever.
Now a domain is less than $20 a year.. most good names are taken and some sell for hundreds, thousands.
Once you have a domain, it can link to endless other FREE pages, videos what ever is on the internet.
Trying to think of one not yet taken, I thought of one that would fit the alumni group.. 8 characters long Easy to add to any shirts, badges, created to promote your group.
Google blogs are free and I tie my domains to blogs
If you click on risingpark.blogspot.com, it will take you to my domain risingpark.com .. all my stuff is on the blog pages if I ever lost the domain, my stuff would still be there.
You can register the blog site with the same name as the domain you chose.
The name I suggested is not common so you can probably create a gmail account that is the same.
With no consideration to photo badges, people will sell merchandise connected to the alumni and they will have reunions and events connected to the alumni.. if they place your web address in their promotion it will take people to the home page you adopted.
As the owners of that blog you can give pages to people to make their pitch... because you created the blog, you can add a footer so every page created will display that information at the bottom.
So if they published their 2000 event on your blog, the bottom line could be
LHS ALUMNI SINCE 1907
JOIN OUR GROUP HERE
That would be a link to your group
I moved my domains to google because I use their free blogs, youtube, maps n stuff. Having those who operate the school groups, there can be multiple admins .. might be able to register it to your alumni.
If you wanna give it a spin, I will send the fee for two years so you can register the domain in your name.
TEMPORARY FB PROFILE PICS
A stock pic could be used or with some photoshop friend you could create temporary profile pics to promote the almuni.
I figure the Gales Mascot should be included because all who went to LHS would know at a glance.
I did an experiment here explained.. when used as a temporary profile pic..
Of course when you used it, everyone who reads your post would see the pic and info
GOOGLE MAP
Google maps has businesses and organizations.
If you own the map you can check the stats
Mine
1 month
Visit your website 7
Request directions 33
Total views 8.97K
Call you 0 ( I have no phone number on my map)
(my photos get thousands of views)
If the alumni has an office or place to meet, that can be added to the google map.
I met some yoga girls on Mt Pleasant and managed to get them listed on googles map. :)
My map is HERE it is the area on Googles map that I manage. Rising Park has been listed for ever but I got Mount Pleasant in Rising Park.. there are hundreds of rising parks and mount pleasant .. I nailed it down. Visitors can post their pics there, if they are not related or off, I have them removed.
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First free steps, using the name I suggested or your own, create a gmail account with that name.
Next create the blog with a matching name.
Once the blog creator has it registered they can make others admins.
Once the blog creator has it registered they can make others admins.
The blog can have a search engine, a page counter and goodies I never learned. If you have connections with a high school computer teacher.. they can fill you in.
Google has so many free utilities I chose them
Google has so many free utilities I chose them
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Individual LHS alumni, their year.
There are lots of alumni for different years. People join and drift away.. maybe some find it.
Cast your net, contact all classes with an invitation to 'the mother ship', thinking of them as chapters (each year) while there is the mother ship which include all grads from all classes.
As we get older members of our class drift away but there is a connection to the GALES.
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Last thought involves $$$
BADGES
In class reunions I have seen them give out name tags with pics from schools. They could also be a badge.. if you walk around the fair.. any public place you could produce individual badges.. with what ever each person wanted
The tornado, their grad pic, a pic of them with their best pal, a pic of them in some activity.
With a badge making machine people could have individual images of them but the outer circle would have the domain name.
Machines are about $200 n you would need a place to do it. Maybe some business of one of the grads.
If there were many pics you could send them to Walmart and pick them up. If there were just a couple you could print them on your home printer.
What kind of finish.. I don't know ?
What about the pins on the back .. hmmmm ?
"Clear pin badges" I guess you just cut out your pic and snap them in the clear badge .. no machine needed?
You might have a couple people research the different options and watch youtube howto videos.
I had some photo buttons made. Had to wait a while and they were over $2.00 each for the 2.5 badges
In school we had math.. word problems to figure out.
How much is the badge maker
How many badges come with it.
How much do blanks cost when you reorder
How much do prints cost.
How much might it cost in mistakes...
There could be a stock image for anyone who just wanted to be connected. I chose the tornado with the mt p background because that logo and background spans all schools
No dispute of what badges design would be, anyone could pick an image to fit their fancy.
Lots of people do not have photo editing skills. Once you selected the badge size and print size, the pic would have to take a certain amount of space on that print.
They could put the year they graduated, their school in the background.. what ever
SHIRTS
What ever design, what ever the promotion piece was, the only thing that was a constant would be the domain name you chose.
Any event or promotion with your domain would allow others to visit with their phone, who does not have one (cept me 😏)
Many of the alumni will have their own pups that will go to LHS and go to their events.. Some will buy jackets, hats n stuff. The badge would also say.. I am a Gale and if those jackets/shirts had your domain address on em, it would say here we are join us
Mt P video.
After capturing the perfect video in 2017, I have tried a couple times. Because I nor most people wanna carry a tripod I placed a couple camera holders.
Mistake, I did not focus once and turn the camera on manual. The camera continued to re-focus and you can see it popping in and out
I placed the camera on a mount on the rail and people along the line climbed, n bumped it jarring the camera.
I was thinking perfectly clear sky, but this time there were a bit of moving clouds, that glowed with a golden beauty.
To make the sun larger you need a big telephoto. I used a 300 not zoomed all the way.
This took 28 minutes to record and I squeezed it into about 40 seconds. It is the method to produce dramatic cloud movement HERE https://youtu.be/HTZwfRU1YOY .
I used free music from the Google Library, but the goal is for our locals to compose, play and sing . The lyrics about standing on our turf at sunset watching the visitors and imagining what brings them here, what they are feeling.. poetic ideas kind of like John Denver.
I take pics of lots of strangers, never know what they are thinking.. a few grumpy, some willing and some really appreciate photos I take of them.
The video should be a music story about this place and those who come here.
After editing the video to the length, removing audio, street sounds, people talking maybe dog's barking. I looked for music that lasted that long. The video was shorter than the audio so I pasted some cool photos from the seasons.
For this paged I used a silhouette of me n my pup taken by a fb pal who visits with her little doggy.
I have met a couple guys with drones, that is a segment I would like to include on a nice night with the visitors soaking in the atmosphere.
I have met kids from every school in the county and adjacent counties. I know they have photography classes and might suggest a video project here and other outdoor locations near us.
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