# 20231203 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes Three `random notes` from my Obsidian vault, today's `music` selection from MailTape, and a `photo` from the past week from my phone. --- ## 📸 "Imprints" ![[Imprints.jpg]] #photo #leaves This image from last week was taken a couple days after a heavy rain, which glued the fall leaves to the sidewalk. It was quite windy on the day of the picture, and most of the drying leaves had blown away, leaving this detailed but ephemeral imprint of Fall on the sidewalk. This location is just a few houses away from the #leaf image I shared in [[20230625 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes#📸 "Not Fall"|Not Fall]]. --- ## ![[Open random note.png]] Three notes from the Random Note core plugin. This is how I am dipping my toe into [Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md) by adding at least 3 notes per week from my library of 6700+ notes. This week, I have #photography on the brain, so I am sharing some related notes. --- ## 🎲 [[Book1971.Time-Life.Great Photographers|Great Photographers]] (1971) I bought this this Time-Life book, highlighting Great Photographers from 1840 to 1960, from the Used Books section of the Park Library in Asheville NC for $2 a couple months ago. Each 20-year epoch carried a list of photographers, the text of which I grabbed using [TextSniper](https://textsniper.app) to paste the OCR'd list into the clipboard, then pasted into a markdown note. Wanting a more robust list, i thought I'd ask ChatGPT (3.5) to flesh out some details by including the decades each photographer was active in, the country where they did most of their work, and a short description of what they were known for. So, I came up with the following prompt... ``` Create a detailed table with the most widely-acclaimed photographers since 1840, along with their active decades, country, and a pithy description of their characteristic photographic styles and camera and processing techniques. ``` ...which gave me a nicely formatted table, like this... ![[ChatGPT results for great photographers.jpg.png]] I proceeded to use this type of prompt to flesh out the first few decades of the Time-Life list, with the link in the title above being the result. Very impressed with how it can generate this annotated list (which I've not checked for accuracy but seems correct) in markdown in one minute, saving hours of tedious research if I were to do this manually. --- ## 🎲 [[SDP Books|Photography Books]] (2022) This note started out as a shopping list for used photography books to look for when I visit used #bookstores , which is pretty much anytime I visit an area, like last month in [[20231119 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes#📸 "Crescent City Books"|New Orleans]]. It has evolved into a list of books I have (so that I do not buy it again), and a list of those I am looking for. When I do find one of these, I update the list to include where I got it, when, and how much I paid. --- ## 🎲 [[Book2012.Patterson.Photography of Natural Things-4thEd|Freeman Patterson's Photography of Natural Things and Image Organization]] (2022) Freeman's table of contents #TOC for this book got me thinking last year of how I tag/label my photographs, and if I were to print a series of images (or even publish a book of images, something like the [LensWork](https://www.lenswork.com) series that Brooks Jensen does), how would I organize a theme. So, this list of categories got me started. I've been looking out for the categories other photographers used to organize their images into themes. [[David Lubbers]]' book, _Persistence of Vision_, is another example of a way to organize photos. David published this entire book of #diptychs (two photos side-by-side) using two images from his catalog that have some common element, such as similarly placed S-shaped elements. I've got over 50,000 photos, so that seems like something I could do -- but would probably take forever. So that's a #Retirement project. --- ## ![[logo.mailtape.png|64]] #441 - [88 Palms](https://www.mailta.pe/441/88-palms/) #mailtape/vibrant No new Mailtape today, so I picked this one from 2021 by [88 Palms](https://88palms.bandcamp.com/releases). Mostly because it features Daft Punk, Spandau Ballet, and Aretha Franklin, so I can't go wrong. Right? --- [[20231126 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|Prior]] <> [[20231210 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|Next]] [[20230625 Thinking about ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|About coffee notes]] [[Home#Contact|Contact me]]