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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Svend Bayer video



When visiting Michael Cardew's pottery in the early 80's if memory serves, he spoke very well of the young Svend Bayer who had worked at his studio. Later in the trip I purchased one of Svend's pots in the town of Penzance, on England's west coast. Years later, when thinning out my collection I sold that jar; but still remember the lovely transparent honey glaze over sgrafitto.

I'm planning a lazy morning for a change after a wonderful dinner with friends at an Italian restaurant in Asheville, celebrating Jim's birthday. The four of us finished off 3 bottles of wine, and ate some lovely food and I'm feeling it a bit this morning which is why I'm planning on a slow morning.

There are some pottery related things to order this morning and garden cleanup this afternoon. I also want to tackle the digital camera manuals and see if I can figure out how to deal with some of the settings, particularly the white balance on my Nikon D100. These cameras are great but so complex and difficult to understand (for me anyway);and the manuals are perplexing and confusing to say the least!

2 comments:

  1. I found a note on Nikon's site about the D100 white balance having an issue -- it's an older article, 2002, but if yours is this old it might still have the problem.
    http://www.nikonusa.com/pdf/D100_wb.pdf

    There's also a nice article on white balance here-
    http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/preset-white-balance.html

    good luck!

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  2. Thanks so much Brian. I'll check those out when I get time.

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