Annemette, considering the fantasy you have, you *will* get entousiastic about mathematics, since fantasy is the most important thing for maths. Unfortunately most teaching is done in such a way that the young people think, it has to be dusty and completely no fun, but this doesn't have to be that way.
So let's have a nice start on that subject, using photography as an aid? Anybody else interested? I think I'll make a mail list and post, say, once a week, the episodes of the most fantastic journey ever. Pure fun!
And Annemette, do use your telescope for finding that fault, since it is exactly "some kind of fault" that in a sense makes up... the whole mathematics! But did you see also the space station? Can you really see its shape?
Take care also and good luck hunting the falling stars!
Dear Nick We could combine the two by going on a ride with the famous hotairballoon filled with enthusiastic UF-members in togas and then descend and take a boatride in a drakkar:-)) I also love the irregular walls in old architecture. My home is like that which makes it difficult to furnish with bookshelves, but where there is a will there is a way, as they say:-) You are most welcome to give me a lecture in the beauty of mathematics. Maybe your enthusiasm will make it interesting and understandable for me! I´ve always disliked this specific area due to dull teachers and maybe my genetics that seem to cry out for art, poetry, philosophy, religion, music etc. instead of mathematics. I belive anything is possible, if it´s combined with enthusiasm and an open mind, so maybe I´m not all together lost:-)You just have to make it poetic, dreamy and adventourous for me!! I´m about to set apart my telescope and put it back together in hope of finding the fault that bothers me. I look forward seing the spacestation pass tomorrow evening, and seing all the falling stars in august. Take care, Annemette
Annemette, I indeed had that good time often - only I wished the wonderful people here would be with me. But who knows, I still dream of that night, when we'll be talking about photography and arts all together, with a glass of wine, shooting pictures of this incomparable company, which I was lucky enough to meet on this site - all of you!
As about geometry and mathematics, well, yes! I do love it! Because there is something pure, unspoiled, and sometimes naive like childhood - something that can make you laugh, and also can make you stand still and think in it. (And believe me, most of the time we laugh on our own imperfectness! :-))
The building is even more fascinating from the inside, since at that times people just built as they wished to - no great plans, no management, nothing! So such buildings grew quite "irregular" in shape and interiors, but they are fascinating. (To me at least). I really have to take some photos from the interiors as a small tasting for the time travel. BTW, if I play the greek mathematician, then would you play the viking maid? (Be careful here, I only need some old toga, but you need a drakkar! - another advantage of mathematics ;-))
So let's hope that your memories of your old school will materialize some day at that building (or any other) - of course *after* a lecture about set theory and the incompletness theorem applied to photographers :-)
Thanks again and best wishes,
Nick
P.S.: Sorry, if my eloquence got too high - this is the time of the day when the mathematics muse gets me under control ;-)
Dear Nick I forgot to say that I can imagine you having a good time in this winecellar;-) While I was in high school we always visited a certain old wine cellar on Fridays, and I have many good memories from that place:-) Best wishes on a bright evening in the North, Annemette
Dear Nick I can really tell that you do love math and geometry by looking at your photos! All the patterns and strong compositions reveal it:-) I like this one because of the light/shadoweffect, the composition and because I simply adore old architecture:-) I always want to touch these old bricks and dream of all the people who has done that before me. Places from the MiddleAges always make me think of the sounds and smells that were around at that time -timetravel, Nick!;-) Best wishes, Annemette
Nick this is my favorite first for the strong contrast that you know I love; second for the quality of the photo as you managed very well the great differential of focus lenght and light contrast. Nothing to cut! Thanks Nicks for your two excellent comments. Buona notte.
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