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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Fluid Artist
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 22:01:45 -0500
References: <CANYyKx_Q96a+qVoQk8JLK191HxLBwHCaNVD7rDUeHQpNDiLuPw@mail.gmail.com>

This is why true professional photographers get paid.   Solving visual
problems magically.

On Mon, May 18, 2020, 9:14 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
wrote:

> A portion of my job at the university involved providing photo
> illustrations to go along with stories in various publications.
> I strove to catch the viewer's eye so they would read the text.
>
> This art professor built kinetic sculptures using multiple high pressure
> water valves synched with electronic flashes to
> create the illusion of water drops suspended in the air forming artistic
> patterns.  At the time the university was doing a story
> on him, his sculpture was dismantled for shipment to an exhibition, so I
> came up with this publicity photo in the studio
> using a plate of glass sprayed with a mixture of water and Karo syrup (to
> keep the droplets in place).  Lit with multiple
> electronic flashes.
>
> <
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/19910404_MR_Award_PSOA_10009B_9.jpg.html
> >
> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
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