"Suter Falls with Rock" at AVA Salon Show 2010

by John O'Keefe-Odom
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We're joining dozens of our city's artists once again at the AVA Salon Show. This year, we offer Suter Falls with Rock, a 22X30" framed silver halide photograph.

The negative was made with Ilford PanF+ 120 black and white film developed in our own Plain Jane Hydroquinone Alpha developer.

The print is Kentmere large roll photo paper, developed in Kodak D-72 Dektol. The print paper is so large the photo had to be bathed in wallpaper trays.

The technique used to make this photo print was described in an earlier article.

The AVA All Member Salon Show 2010 runs from November 5, 2010 to December 19, 2010. There is a reception on Friday night, November 5. The AVA Gallery is on 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga. Artworks are purchasable through the AVA representative at the gallery's front desk.

Over $1,430,000 Spent on Buying Tennessee's Federal Lawmakers

by John O'Keefe-Odom
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A recent report released by lobbyists at the non-profit organization Public Citizen on their website Citizen.org lists contributions to recent political campaigns.

The report concentrates on funds which were from undisclosed sources outside of a candidate's state.

Over $1,430,000 (one million four hundred thirty thousand dollars') worth of campaign contributions, from undisclosed sources outside of Tennessee, went mainly into two of Tennessee's lawmakers' campaigns.

US Representatives-elect Scott Desjarlais($951,445) and Steve Fincher ($482,309) are listed among the nations' top recipients of contributions whose sources were from outside the candidates' state, but of an undisclosed origin.

Desjarlais Asks Tennessee for Yet More Money

Desjarlais, who is listed as receiving close to one million dollars in unnamed outside support ($951,445), had an ad on his website specifically asking voters to "Help Us Keep This Ad on the Air by Clicking Here!"

The ad featured the spoken and written words, "stop spending on wasteful bailouts!"

The hyperlink associated with supporting the ad went to a secure section of the website listed under the subdirectory of "contribute."

Desjarlais' campaign was headquartered in Jasper. Fincher's campaign headquarters had a Jackson, TN address.

"Low Funds" and "No Funds" Races Also Listed

US Representative-elect Diane Black ($1,830) also received outside the state funding from undisclosed sources, but at less than two thousand dollars' worth of influence.

US Representative-elect "Chuck" Fleischmann (TN-3: Chattanooga-area), who raced against John Wolfe, is listed as --not-- receiving funds ($0) from undisclosed sources outside the state.

Comparable to Governor's Race Dollars

Also listed were approximately $18 million dollars worth of undisclosed, outside-their-state funds of unknown origin which were applied to six governors' races across the US.

Tennessee's governor's race was not listed among those (IL, PA, WI, AR, IN, and $0 spent in North Dakota) which were associated with a partisan change in power.

Some of the amounts listed as being spent on Tennessee's US Representatives are comparable to the dollar values discussed on a recent episode of WTCI (PBS) "Tennessee Insider" as being an influential amount in upcoming governor's elections.

In Season 4, Episode 29 of "Tennessee Insider" panelists discussed how the spending of millions of dollars in advertising had become a practical requirement for running for governor.

That episode shows how this year's Governor's election campaigns already saw candidates concentrating their advertising on selected areas of the state. Bill Haslam, who later on became Tennessee's Governor-elect, was noted as having the most money to spend on advertising.

Managing equity arguably led to some candidates mutually conceding that their opponents were strong in their respective "home" areas. This led to a set of conditions in which the panelists discussed that it was plausible to conclude certain large areas (Nashville, mainly) would become the battleground between two candidates who had the most money to spend.

In these money-dumping schemes of purchasing political advertising, large swaths of the state's votes end up being regarded as a foregone conclusion.

Many of "Tennesse Insider"'s panelists predictions did turn out to be observable realities.

Given the over one million dollar amount listed as buying influence in campaign advertising for Desjarlais and Finch, above, it's demonstrable that similar sums could be applied to outright buy a future Tennessee governor by funding his campaign.

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References:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Outside-Job-Report-20101103.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/outside-job
Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003

http://wtcitv.org/video/insider/season-4-episode-29

http://www.scottdesjarlais.com/
https://www.scottdesjarlais.com/www/contribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWki46PRR3k
http://stephenfincher.org/

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Moving Mirrors Arrives at Libraries

Upper Greeter Creek, cover photo from Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles of Landscape Photography with Film.

by John O'Keefe-Odom
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We're proud to announce the addition of Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles in Landscape Photography with Film to library collections in Tennessee.

Recent acceptances and catalog entries include:

Academic Libraries:
Southern Adventist University, McKee Library.
Chattanooga State, Augusta R. Kolwyck Library.
Motlow State Community College, Clayton-Glass Library, Moore County Campus and Fayetteville Campus.

Public Libraries:
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Library (Eastgate branch).
Manchester/Coffee County Public Library. Call number 778.71 OKE.
East Ridge City Library. Call number 770 OKE.

Secondary School:
East Ridge High School Library, one copy for the alma mater.

Many thanks to the Deans and Library Directors who were kind enough to reply with letters of acceptance.

Look for Moving Mirrors in your local library in southeast Tennessee. Some of the books we have donated to almost 20 libraries are still being processed and evaluated. We'll post updates about approvals as they become available.

Moving Mirrors: Intermediate Principles of Landscape Photography with Film is a monograph written, photographed, edited and designed by John O'Keefe-Odom. It is the primary product of a 2009 CreateHere MakeWork Grant.

CreateHere's MakeWork grants were made possible by generous donations from the Lyndhurst and Benwood Foundations. Both organizations are well known throughout the Chattanooga area for their exemplary, multi-millionaire patronage of arts and cultural activities.

Moving Mirrors includes discussions of: original developer recipes, film and darkroom techniques, photographic composition, Boyle's Law, Beer's Law, the Inverse Square Law of Light, Rayleigh Scattering, tonal grouping, tonal shifts and using spectra for editing images.

BISAC Subject codes: PHO023040 (Landscape), PHO006000 (Darkroom) and PHO011030 (monograph).

The book can also be searched for with ISBN 978-0-615-37152-8 or as ISBN 9780615371528.

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