Today's ILL of the day is dedicated to BowlingWidow who returned to work today from a trip to the Grand Canyon. Lasting Light - 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography arrived just in time to celebrate her return. Although the book jacket boasts: "This impressive collection of more than 125 years of Grand Canyon photography is complemented by captivating profiles of 23 of the finest Grand Canyon photographers.", Captain ILL has a hard time seeing much of a change in the Grand Canyon over those 125 years, except that colors seemed to be much more muted back in the old days. In any case, the canyon is undeniably grand and the book is as well, weighing a whopping 4 lbs 1 oz.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Interlibrary Loan of the day
Today's ILL of the day is dedicated to BowlingWidow who returned to work today from a trip to the Grand Canyon. Lasting Light - 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography arrived just in time to celebrate her return. Although the book jacket boasts: "This impressive collection of more than 125 years of Grand Canyon photography is complemented by captivating profiles of 23 of the finest Grand Canyon photographers.", Captain ILL has a hard time seeing much of a change in the Grand Canyon over those 125 years, except that colors seemed to be much more muted back in the old days. In any case, the canyon is undeniably grand and the book is as well, weighing a whopping 4 lbs 1 oz.
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i'm just writing to say how impressed i am that you've attracted the attention of ill-ers way off in oklahoma! for anyone who missed it, you have to go back to friday the 11th, you know - that book that looks like a red domino . . .
Yes, Captain ILL belongs to the world, not just Sno-Isle Libraries.
So, I guess you came to the mailroom to weigh this book while I was out. Hard to believe, since I am mostly never out. Of course, it goes without saying that Captain ILL has complete freedom to access the postage scale whenever the need arises.
Regarding the Grand Canyon:
are you suggesting that over the past 125 years the color palette of the Grand Canyon has actually gotten more vivid? Can the Captain hypothesize
about this phenomenon? I don't suppose it has anything to do with our constantly shifting set of physics rules...
While the first color photograph was taken by the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, it wasn't until much later that it became widely used by non-physicists. I suspect this has a lot to do with why the colors in the Grand Canyon have become less muted in modern times.
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