New year thoughts

Joy and wonderful in the new year! May 2008 be fabulous!

Book Signing Thoughts

Hello Fellow Photographers! Some of you have seen the "work in progress" - well, the real thing will be here next week!! Come see us as we talk about the process of making this book and share images! hurrah...

Book signing and talk by Geir and Kate Jordahl on December 7 at Foothill College

"Searching for True North," a book of photographs and poetry has been published by Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto and its debut will be at Foothill College on Friday, December 7th at 7 pm in Building 6100, Room 6107.
Geir Jordahl, photographer, and Photo Instructor/Interim Dean Kate Jordahl, editor, will share the adventure of making this photographic book including the images, stories and challenges. There will be refreshments, tours of the photo building and a book signing. Searching for True North is a selection of images from 30 years of Geir Jordahl's photographic work. It includes an Introduction by Margaretta K. Mitchell, Poetry by Rolf Jacobson, Translations by Roger Greenwald and Afterword by Karen Kienzle, de Saisset Museum. Join us
for a special evening!

Brew and Book in Hayward on December 12th

Start with a brew at the Bistro while Geir and Kate tell more tales of the making of "Searching for True North" then slip next door to our local book store, the Book Shop, to buy your own copy. See you there!!
December 12 at 1001 and 1007 `B' Street in Hayward starting at 6:30 pm.

Questions? Call Kate at 650-949-7156 or email at kpjordahl@sbcglobal .net

All the best,

Kate Jordahl
http://www.jordahlphoto.com
http://www.searchingfortruenorth.com

Foothill College Photography and Digital Imaging
http://www.foothill.edu/fa/photo/katejordahl.html

PhotoCentral
http://www.photocentral.org

Searching for True North Arrival thoughts

The book is here - one copy for us and one for the gallery, at least. It is a triumph and a transition. The waiting is...not over, but changed. Will all our work be rewarded with people liking the project? What next?

http://www.searchingfortruenorth.com for your own sneak peek!

My daemon - what do you think??

Deanly thoughts

What has happened to Kate? She has become interim dean of Fine Arts and Communication at Foothill College - what an odd thing! Time is so crowded and busy and impossible and, strangely, I like the job. I find myself enjoying the challenge and wanting more.

So many questions - who am I? Can I still be an artist? What will come next?

Interesting. Interesting.

florida thoughts

Visiting my mom and dad. It is great to have time (not enough! ) to visit and share with these two wonderful people.....

Here we are at the Harn Museum in Gainsville.

Thank you, Mom and Dad, for a beautiful visit and for being beautiful people! Kate

Jane Thoughts

(Tomorrow is Jane's Memorial - it is difficult to believe she is gone. I was alway waiting for a miracle without even knowing it....Here is what I will say at the memorial if I have the chance.)

Read about Jane Here: Jane Sandsmark Memorial

Today
Today - this moment is all we have and Jane showed us the way to make the most of each second. She is for me an inspiration.

Fred and Jane - They were a team and it is with admiration I also celebrate all Fred did to let Jane thrive and enjoy life under the shadow of her cancer and her treatments.

Curiosity. Creativity. Consistency. Caring. Jane was full of these and many other admirable traits. She will live on in our hearts and in our actions.

When you do something for the environment, create something original, read a science fiction book, enjoy a croissant, explore a museum or think of France, think of Jane. I will remember Jane and her gift of simple pleasure in each moment of her too short life and try to take this gift forward to share with everyone I meet. Thank you Jane for being my friend.

August thoughts

The book is to the printer.
We are off to travel in our camper.
My 'work' whimpers but waits.

I am tired and long for answers. Have so many questions. sigh....

SFTN thoughts

It is almost over - or this part is. I am printing the last photographs for checking. We will be giving the galleys and cd and all of it over to the designers on Tuesday..."Searching for True North" will be off to China, and will arrive by Christmas. Being editor is wonderful and exhausting. I love pulling all the parts together - figuring out what needs to be done and making it all happen...

It will be wonderful and sad when it is done. There is the next bits (publicity, selling, the exhibition), but my aspect will be done and I will miss the sense of purpose and challenge.

Onward thoughts

I struggle onward with the book and classes and life all snapping at my heels. How do I keep on on on? How do i not lose hope when i am so tired and feel like all i do is not enough?

sigh

Guilty thoughts

So I am going the way of most bloggers - getting busy with life and not posting - is that a bad thing? hmmm.

I guess if I think of journals and diaries and other ways of recording our life, it is not surprising that most blogs get abandoned.

I think of the diary by the nurse in the new england town that chronicled an epidemic then stopped. What is our life is so interesting or important? But perhaps it is just the act of paying attention that matters.

weightwatcher thoughts

So I have been following (and I don't think of myself as a follower) weightwatchers since February - 23 lbs lost - 1.1 per week...more I feel thinner and healthier. I shudder to think what would have happened if I had not stopped and changed my eating habits. It is not always easy - and despite my efforts, I will need more exercise continue to lose.

It is unsettling that what they calculate to lose, only lets me stay pretty stable at this point...

Points Point Point. I count them. I earn them by walking. ah well...

tired thoughts

book bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook bookbook book....

I work on the book until I can not see...It is the purpose of my life right now.

http://www.searchingfortruenorth.com

afternoon thoughts

cranky afternoon thought. meetings. large iced mocha only dulls the pain...sigh...

too many thoughts too little time...


put on a happy face.....

NAPP thoughts

I just added a gallery to the National Association of Photoshop Professional site:


View my gallery

Let me know what you think....

late spring thoughts

all of the bugs seem to have come alive in one moment. the trees are creaking with a new song. we are here they say. sunlight slips through their branches to say spring shall leave and the time of living the summer time is here. I walk through the campus and put on my photo eyes. suddenly all is moving as a potential photograph. they are not just branches anymore, but abstract potential. I wish to stop and savor this moment.

Late night thoughts

Hello - just here cropping photographs and working on Geir's book. It is an amazing process - but tiring on many levels.

Geir will be talking at Kebble and Shuchat on June 2nd. Download it HERE

Ilford will be supporting the continuation of traditional silver printing and Geir with Gitta (Brigitte Carnochan ) will adding to the conversation. Should be interesting.

I just want time to work on the book and have a few minutes of normal life! hmmm....what IS normal?

(This is a photograph of us at the Mumm Winery show organized by Ansel Adams Gallery. Just a random photo in the late night - example of normal? hmmm...)

public or semi-public thoughts?

Will I publish this address? Will I let anyone see my 'blog?' Or is it just a place for me to write when I feel so inclined....Why am I doing this?

I think it is interesting that 66% of blogs are abandoned

The Blogging Iceberg -
Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned

Will I keep this up? Why or why not? Will I published the address? Hmmmm....

searching thoughts

the book is all we do and all we think about...sort of. It is the start and finish of every action - yet there is so much to be distracted by and so much else to do...PhotoCentral, Foothill, Dinner, Children, Family, birds, gardens, visitors and everything else in the work come into our thoughts...which are like butterflies...

Book stuff is here: http://www.modernbook.com/books.htm

I am here....happy. sad. tired. hopeful. onward....

Jane Thoughts

I sit here next to my friend Jane and hope...not for recovery. This not possible. Jane is in the last stages of dying from brain cancer. But I hope that she will not suffer much longer and that she will not leave us at the same time. I listen to her breath and wait for it to stop. My heart goes most to Fred, her husband and friend, who has been so amazing in this process of illness and death.

Jane Website

bookish thoughts

Where do the hours, days go? We are working on Geir's book day and night - and it is all encompassing. It has taken over the center of our lives and the center of our home! You can see some of the photographs HERE.

It is an interesting process. I am an editor unofficially - and it is something I enjoy.

black and white photo thoughts

Bruce Barnbaum came to campus and shared his photographs and thoughts.
They are beautiful images and with deep thought behind each one. It was nice to share with a fellow photographer and have him share with my students.

www.barnbaum.com

Wednesday morning thoughts

I must decide today if I will do the 4 day foothill or 2 day foothill systems for Fall 2007. The 4 day means:

• driving to foothill 4 x (gas, bridge toll [$4!] time)
• 2 more office hours per week
• obliged hours in day realistic

The 2 day means
• arrive on campus at 8:30 am and leave at 10:30 pm
• 'free' on off days from traveling to foothill


I am not sure which is worse or which is better, but I must committ...

late night foothill thoughts

at 10:52 pm...what to do but pack up and go home? expecially when it all started at 6 am...a day full of students-- beginning to advanced and add in alumni...full, rich but I am so tired. A large coffee and a quiet ride with Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lincoln book to keep me awake!

Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" (2005) has been a great book on tape...The genius and goodness of Lincoln astounds me.

What a day thoughts

I am here thinking that this day is too long and I am too tired and
still I can not do it all. What does it take? 48 hour days.

Plastic thoughts

Plastic camera? ANY CAMERA! Picture Pictures Pictures

Clicking on this link will take you to the absolute vodka sponsored site of plastic camera and plastic camera like art....

More thoughts

I am trying to post via email. This could be interesting. I am tired
an have so much to do, but just need to play a bit! Morning Morning...

Random Thoughts April 21, 2007

Lord knows I spend enough time on the computers - you would not think that I would need yet another electronic place to type my thoughts...but it seems like I have been inspired to add to the general din of information on the airwaves. So here is my first post...at 12:59 am when I should be sleeping, or working or something!