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Below
is a list of announcements or other items added to this web site:
April 6, 2007
October 22, 2006
August 31, 2005
July 30, 2005
July 27, 2005
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We have slightly revamped the web site and added a
page about purchasing prints of
Helen's photography. Both the photography page and the
notecard page point
to the same images.
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We have added a section of six
panoramic photos. Helen started
experimenting with panoramic work a year ago when she purchased a
Canon Digital Rebel camera and discovered that it came bundled with
software to stitch together a sequence of photos.
June 21, 2005
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Finally, the prototype version of one of our web
site dreams is in place. It is an E-Postcard
feature that allows visitors to
select one of Helen's photographic images and send it as a cyber
postcard with message and all. Give it a try, and give us some
feedback if you would like. Thanks.
June 9, 2005
June 2, 2005
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Helen will be one of the featured artists at Big Table
Books on Main Street in downtown Ames during the Artwalk sponsored
by the Octagon Art Center. The event will be from 5-9 pm on Friday,
June 3. There will be live music in Tom Evans
plaza, local artists displaying their works in 34 downtown
businesses, refreshments, and more! The event runs from 5 - 9 pm and
is something the whole family can enjoy!
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After a hiatus this winter for many things, including
getting her computer upgraded, Helen is resuming work on the
postcard shown at the top of this page of Iowa barns. She has
decided to switch from using black and white photos to using color
images. We hope to have the postcard available for sale by the end
of June, if not before.
January 25, 2005
January 24, 2005
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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsak has proclaimed 2005 as "The
Year of the Barn and Family Farm." Helen has designed the
postcard shown above and will be making it available within the next
several weeks. The postcard is 4 1/4 x 6 inches which meets the
Postal Service standards. The card is being printed at Heuss
Printing in Ames, and soon we we determine how to price the card.
Helen also has color photo notecards of six of the scenes. You can
see them in the
notecard gallery in
the section of photos of
farm buildings.
January 13, 2005
November 16, 2004
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We've added a new
image to the notecard
gallery. Helen took the photograph of a barn and silo in Hardin
County in central Iowa when she was on her way from Gilbert to Cedar
Falls yesterday. She went to see the Gilbert High School team win
the semi-final game of the state tournament at the UNI-Dome, but
instead of taking Interstate 35 and four-lane Highway 20, she
traveled the less direct county highways, looking for photo
opportunities.
November 2, 2004
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Helen edits an unofficial web site for Gilbert, Iowa,
where she lives. The town of 987 people is just north of Ames. She
has written an election-day
essay that offers a grassroots, year around, attitude toward
divisiveness. Interested people can go to the Gilbert Gazette and
read the piece.
October 25, 2004
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Today we took the CD with the file for calendars
of Helen's rural Iowa photographs
to the printers and should have copies within a few days to sell
directly or through Big Table Books in Ames.
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We also have prepared a calendar of images from
watercolor paintings by
Helen's mother, Marion A. Gunderson, of Rolfe.
October 21, 2004
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We are creating a 12-month
calendar of Helen's photographs
of rural Iowa that includes scenes of grain elevators, corn
cribs, barns, and field work. The calendar should be available
within about 10 days.
October 4, 2004
October 2, 2004
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A 12-month photo
calendar of images of Gilbert, Iowa, and the surrounding rural
area. Hopefully, Helen will soon have at least one other
calendar ready for 2005. We'll keep you posted.
September 29, 2004
July 3, 2004
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More garden
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Helen has been taking photos of town and farm
scenes around Gilbert and is getting some enlarged as well as
made into notecards for sale locally when the town celebrates
its 125th
anniversary on
July 30-31, 2004. So if you are in the area, stop at the
Daisychains and Laughs coffeebar to see some of the notecards,
and stop at the Consignment Gallery to see the enlargements.
Both places are on Main Street, just south of city hall.
Eventually, Helen will post these new images as well as others
such as an image of pink and red hollyhocks that she took
yesterday.
May 28, 2004
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Helen has created a
section
about the tornado that hit rural areas south of her hometown of
Rolfe, Iowa, on May 21. The material is on the Rolfe Alumni Web
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There are also some new garden
photos on this site.
May 19, 2004
May 15, 2004
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Helen will be one of three artists at a reception
at
Big Table Books on Main Street in Ames, Iowa, on Friday,
June 4, from 5-9 pm. The event is part of the Ames Artwalk with
lots of artists at many downtown locations that evening. The
Artwalk is sponsored by the
Octagon Center for the Arts. Big Table Books carries several
of Helen's color photo notecards. For the Artwalk, Helen will
some of her new images for sale either as photo notecards or
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We've posted 46 new images that Helen has added to
her notecard
gallery. Some are ones she has taken in the past year. A
few, such as those from the Living History Farms, are ones that
she took many years ago. Interested persons can arrange to have
matted enlargements made of these images. We have also posted an
index to the new photos in
pdf format and an Excel (version 3)
spreadsheet.
And there is a spreadsheet
index to her entire
portfolio of over 250 images that can be used for color photo
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We've just put up a new feature. It's a
quasi-webcam of Helen's
container garden. During the course of the season, she will
photograph her garden and post some images.
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