fish-eye gazebo

Above is a photograph (with a fish-eye lens) taken from inside the Forstmann gazebo atop the Castle lawn. The photographer is our own Ken Nathanson (long-time camper, staff, active alum and now proud father of a summer 2010 CIT).

Dave's diptychs

Phyllis Caputo is here this session - an early-to-mid-80s alumna and now the mom of a camper - whom we remember as Phyllis Gherardi. (Phyllis's sister Denise, a bit younger, was here in the 80s too.) I just came indoors after leading Tacoma and Lenape (some 88 people in all) in an hour-long game of Geronimo. What fun! Phyllis was out there taking pictures. Maybe I'll get a few of her shots for this blog.

I've mentioned that last session Dave Mager was here taking photographs too. See this earlier entry. Anyway, toward the end of last week Dave was working on an informal project that intrigues me. In an attempt to feature individual camp people in a portrait but not deprive the view of the picture the active natural context, he created a series of two-piece photographic portraits - diptychs. Here (below) is one of them. There are six in all and I urge you to go to Dave's site to have a look.

Dave Mager, photographer

I've mentioned that Dave Mager is in camp volunteering these two weeks, while his wife Stacey is doing evening shifts at the health center as a nurse and their two kids are campers in day camp.

Dave's been all around camp taking photographs, some of which we hope to use in brochures, ads, marketing. I just looked at maybe 50 fabulous photos Dave snapped during the Olympics and picked out three of my favorites. Below that is a great shot Dave caught of Dave King telling of Frost Valley history to Tacoma in the living room of the Castle.





Visit Dave Mager's site: davidmagerphotography.com.