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April 1, 2005 |
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I've had this calendar photo above my computer for some time. It's an old-fashioned adding machine. This one has 72 number keys, an entry handle and a paper tape and is like one I was trained to use long ago. It's very different from a 10-key adding machine, which is mimicked on many computer keyboards.
Individual digits, no matter how large or small the entire number, are entered beginning from the lowest value to the highest (1 to 9). Any value not specifically entered is assumed to be zero. As you go up the array of keys, your hand gets closer to the handle. After entering the highest digit, you pull the handle down and that number is entered. Here's how to enter 391,706.48. You can ignore the zero in the tens column as it will default to zero when the handle is pulled. Using only the fingers of the right hand, press the 1 key in the column corresponding to the thousands (1,000's) position followed by the 3 in the far left (100,000's) column. Continue pressing keys in the appropriate columns in this order: the 4, the 6 (there are no 5's), then the 7, next the 8 and finally the 9 before pulling the handle downward, leaving your hand in position for the next group of numbers. Difficult as it may be to believe, you can get used to this and become very efficient in entering numbers. |
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While shooting a catalog for St. Bernard Sports, a Dallas ski apparel company, we were getting ready for the cover shot of a model with a St. Bernard. The dog and crew were waiting patiently for the model to arrive on the set. | |
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The Dallas Gift Show was running a series with the theme of magic. They needed photographs on this theme to use as catalog covers. My idea was to take traditional magician's tricks and turn them into something a bit different.
The first trick turned colored scarves into butterflies This is an unretouched, multiple exposure photograph taken with a Sinar view camera on 4"x5" color transparency film. The hand in the foreground is mine. Pinching the end of the red scarf is the hand of my assistant at the time, Harrison Evans. |
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The second magic trick turned fluttering playing cards into the fluttering wings of a dove. Again, this is an unretouched, multiple exposure photograph taken with a Sinar view camera on 4"x5" color transparency film.
I trained the dove myself. The hand holding the cards is that of my assistant at the time, Harrison Evans |
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The third magic trick turned a magic wand into a bouquet of flowers. I think magicians already to this trick. Again, this is an unretouched, multiple exposure photograph taken with a Sinar view camera on 4"x5" color transparency film.
The hand in the foreground is mine. Holding the flowers is the hand of my assistant at the time, Harrison Evans. |
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 Photo by Kent Kirkley |
When I first moved to Dallas in 1974, I was a photographer's assistant at Francisco + Booth Studios for about a year. My skills as a makeup artist occasionally came in handy . This Texas Monthly cover photograph was shot by my friend Kent Kirkley after I built the set and prepared the model to look like a trail-weathered cowboy. | |
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