Flickr Group: Contemporary Daguerreotypes
There’s a Flickr group for contemporary daguerreotypes now.
I can’t figure out how to get MINE in there but hey… I keep getting the message that the image is either already inside the group, in too many groups, or is restricted. As far as I know my images aren’t in ANY groups but I’m not even sure how to see if that’s the case.
Anyway… check it out.
Jonathan
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Another Daguerreotype Forum!
I hereby declare 2008 the “Year of the Daguerreotype.” I have been simply amazed at the increase in traffic to my site, communications with new daguerreotypists and other artists, communications with new collectors, and interest in daguerreotypes in general in the past six months.
Yesterday I announced the opening of an internet forum all about daguerreotypes and today I receive this e-mail from my dear friend Alan:
Dear Fellow Daguerreians
In an effort to promote a forum for discussions on contemporary Daguerreotypy, I have set up a website at:
http://www.contemporarydaguerreotypes.info/It has a forums section and in the main website a galleries section where I hope to have images of interest. If you would like your own gallery webpage with the main site, showing your images and contact information, please email me the material. I hope to make an egalitarian community website that will be of interest to you. Please feel free to send me requests as to what you would like to see on the website.
Best regards,
Alan Bekhuis
CasedImage.com
How splendid!
Jonathan
Daguerreotype Discussion Forum
Jon Lewis has created an online forum for the discussion of all things daguerreotype. The forum isn’t just for practicing daguerreotypists but is geared for the discussion of collecting, preservation, case making, etc. Go check it out!
-Jonathan
Morrisville by Ernest Dollar
I was poking around Barnes and Noble yesterday and I came across my friend Ernie’s new book, “Morrisville.”
Morrisville is known as a small, sleepy town in central North Carolina. However, this town in the heart of the state’s most technological area has a long and colorful past. The Morrisville community traces its origin to its location on the state’s colonial eastwest road and became a town, naming itself after resident Jeremiah Morris, with the arrival of the North Carolina Railroad in 1852. Its strategic stop along the railroad brought warring armies during the Civil War, and afterward, residents hoped the railroad would make Morrisville a prosperous town of the New South. Progress came slowly, and Morrisville became a farming community frozen in time for the next 100 years. With the rapid growth of the Research Triangle in the 1980s, Morrisville found itself enveloped by a quickly changing community. Located by the state’s largest airport and a major interstate, Morrisville became the new center for several technologically advanced research facilities and home to many new families enjoying the town’s rural charm.
Ernie and I started chatting via e-mail about daguerreotypes, etc. and then we realized that we lived TWO STREETS APART! Ernie has since moved away but I’m still proud to call him a friend.
You should buy his book… like RIGHT NOW. Read it, give a copy to a friend, etc. Congratulations, Ernie!