© 2008 Rosanne. All rights reserved.
Earthquakes For the past week I’ve had trouble sleeping through the night. One factor is Cleo, one of my two nine month old cats, has been attacking my feet in the middle of the night (I kick her out of the room … Continue reading
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Working on WHJ Webpage After writing my last post I began to prepare to get my thesis up on this site. Today I scanned the text pages. I may even have the attribution list up this weekend. I need to … Continue reading
Today I got an email from Paul Clark. He collects William Henry Jackson images, primarily of Yosemite. He is also an Ansel Adams expert and collector. Paul found me through a Google search. In January, while I was still working … Continue reading
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I’m unable to post too many photos. I guess I haven’t learned to properly work with this site. So I’m doing yet one more posting to give you the the other paintings by Lizzie. I think that there were more. … Continue reading
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The painting above was inspired by two photographs of my grandparents and by a painting by my Grandma Lizzie. It was painted by M Goodwin about 1969. M never titled it, but I titled it The Goodwin Family Tree. During the … Continue reading
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I’ve been unemployed for 3.5 months now. About five weeks ago I began working part-time at a friend’s business. I’m not naming the business or any names because some may deem the following sexist or demeaning. It is a ship yard … Continue reading
Annie Leibovitz Exhibit at the Legion of Honor The exhibit ends in a week so I headed to San Francisco on Wednesday to see the Annie Leibovitz exhibit, “A Photographer’s Life” created by the Brooklyn Museum. I got there early before … Continue reading
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Unlike genealogy family history isn’t always direct, linear, clean, or pretty. In genealogy you have a chart with names, dates, births, deaths, and marriages – the facts. As I mentioned in my last blog once we add the factor of … Continue reading
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Family resemblence I heard from Birgit Wolz today. She took the time to look at what I wrote about her last week. She wrote “you look just like your grandmother”. I took no offense to that since she was referring … Continue reading
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Often when I tell people I’m interested in family history they take it to mean genealogy. I’m not interested in that at all. I have three Mormon cousins, (my father’s brother Jerry’s wife Merilyn is Mormon) who have eighteen children … Continue reading
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I love working with digital photos. I think that a big part of this has to do with the fact that I’m extremely allergic to photographic chemistry. I think that it’s specifically the fixer (formaldehyde). When I wrote my master’s … Continue reading
Cinema Therapy In 2003 I told my friend Birgit Wolz about my ideas on Capturing the Soul. She’s a therapist who loves photos. I thought about working with her to develop workshops on looking at photos. She told me about … Continue reading