Container Design Lecture
June 14th, 2011
Do your containers make you happy? SCOTT EKLUND Photograph, 1997
Do you find container design a frustration?
A terra cotta heart-shaped container, filled with succulents.
Recently, Andrew Buchanan, a photographer friend and former Seattle Post-Intelligencer colleague, told me that Slides.com is the best value for scanning 35mm slides into digital files. It costs about $1.00 per slide, which is a good bargain compared with $2.50 per slide that local labs charge.
As an experiment, I sent 44 cardboard- and plastic-framed slides that have resided for years in a Kodak carousel tray to Slides.com to see what they could do.
Kay at Slides.com emailed the files to me today – just in time for tomorrow’s lecture. As it turns out, the digitals seem crisper and brighter than the originals…and they can be manipulated, cropped and re-sized. Pretty handy!
Happily, my talk’s opening slides look great. And they are very sweet. The little boy you see above as a baby and at left as a bored toddler who I dragged to a container plant trial is now 14 years old, about to begin High School in the fall. Time certainly flies – in the garden . . . and with children!
June 16th, 2011 at 8:04 am
Sorry to have missed your lecture! I am a fan of your blog and other writings–thought you might like to see the container garden I designed: http://wp.me/p1t644-8m It has a rustic/modern/industrial look and holds a lot of plants! Best, Calvin
June 17th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
The family is going through old slides- THANK YOu for th resource!
June 17th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Those are your kids? SO cute!
June 30th, 2011 at 3:46 am
That remind me of photo I took with my daughter Rosie in the middle of Tulip field in near Amsterdam all you could see was her head poking out in this mass of beautiful flowers. I keep telling her she was named after my favorite flower you have given me some new ideas for pictures this summer.
July 2nd, 2011 at 4:48 pm
This is so cute ! I love taking pictures of my kids in nature. Flowers, trees, sunrises – anything goes !
We went to Italy (Sicily) last year and i almost had heart attack when my lil daughter screamed like crazy and ran to me …..it was a bee….no flowers for 3 days for her!