From mike@visuallee.com Sat Jan  1 13:51:24 2005
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:01:11 -0500
From: Michael Lee <mike@visuallee.com>
To: Walter Sanford <wsanford@wsanford.com>
Subject: Re: Two Questions re: Robert Adzema Sundial

I don't think I answered you! By all means use the sundial photo from my 
site. As to collaborating on the time series photos, I'll have to pass 
as fun as that would be because I'm squeezed for time between work and 
family.

Good luck!

Mike


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 9:30 am, Walter Sanford wrote:
> Dear Mr. Lee,
>
> A quick introduction. I am a science teacher/planetarium teacher with
> Fairfax County Public Schools in suburban Washington, D.C. I'm an avid
> sundial enthusiast and member of the North American Sundial Society. 
> I'm
> especially interested in equatorial- and bowstring equatorial sundials. 
> I
> am the creator of the "Educator's Guide to Equatorial Sundials."
>
>    
> http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/sundials/equatorial_sundials.html
>
> Two questions re: Robert Adzema's Hyatt Regency Jersey City Sundial
> sculpture. First, may I have permission to use your extraordinarily
> beautiful photograph entitled, "Sundial frames skyline," on my 
> non-profit
> educational website?
>
> Second, would you be willing to collaborate with me to create a
> time-series of images showing the annual migration of the noon mark 
> solar
> calendar (analemma)? At a minimum, I'd like to photograph the noon mark 
> on
> the day of the solstices and equinoxes. Ideally, we'd assemble a 
> 13-frame
> animated GIF (we'd need one extra photo to "close the loop") or MPEG 
> movie
> showing the position of the noon mark for the 21st of each month.
> Careful alignment using a tripod would be necessary in order to ensure
> proper registration of the photographs. You take the images; I'll do
> post-processing. Sound do-able?
>
> Thanks for your consideration of my request & proposal. Eagerly looking
> forward to your reply! Hope to hear from you soon.
>
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> Walter Sanford, Director           Carl Sandburg Middle School
> Center for Sky Awareness           8428 Fort Hunt Road
> Sandburg Planetarium               Alexandria, VA 22308
> Fairfax County Public Schools      Work: 703-799-6169 -6197 (fax)
> E-mail: wsanford@wsanford.com      Home: 703-765-9392
> AMS Project ATMOSPHERE Atmospheric Education Resource Agent &
> Water in the Earth System (WES) Resource Teacher
> SCSA, Geosystems, & Camp T-Equity - URL: http://www.wsanford.com/
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