My studio showroom is overflowing with photographs of all kinds.
Here’s a chance for me to free up some space for new items if only I can clear out some of my previous works – all of which are shown above.
Decorate your home with one of these ready-to-hang photographs by visiting my Clearance Sale.
Thx,
Arnie
This week we visited the local John Ball Park Zoo for a special themed attraction called the Lantern Festival. It’s an annual event whereby the park is transformed into a mile long pathway filled with thousands of colorful and clever Asian lanterns. These amazing displays come in all sizes – small, medium, large and gigantic.
It’s a great venue for photographers such as myself and I had an easy time of selecting subjects to shoot. For this article, I’ll stick to a few pictures that illustrate the festival’s Asian origin.
Most of you are at least slightly familiar with the zodiac animals that you might see on the menu or placemat at a Chinese restaurant. These have special meaning to those who follow this cultural norm.
The zodiac consist of twelve animals that represent a particular lunar year. Each animal has certain characteristics and a person born in a given year takes on the personality of the animal.
I was born in the year of the ox. Supposedly my personality is “diligent, dependable, strong, determined”. I’ll let others decide if these adjectives describe my personality.Here are the lanterns that illustrate the Chinese zodiac.
I took many more pictures than I’ve shown you here. As time permits, I’ll have another article that shows you many more amazing and clever lanterns from the festival.
We enjoyed this year’s Lantern Festival and the clever presentations of the Chinese zodiac animals.
Does your personality match the animal of your birth year?
Written by:
Arnie Lee
Reference: Personality traits from Creative Arts Guild
During World War II millions of men volunteered or were conscripted to serve in the military. As the men left the workforce, the country’s factories were desperately short of employees – especially the factories that directly supported the war effort.
Our government immediately started a national recruitment effort asking women to join the depleted workforce. Using the well known Rosie the Riveter posters, they called on women to show their patriotism with their labor. In all, some 6 million women were employed by these war time factories.
Some 80 years after WWII some of these women were awared the Congressional Gold Medal for their service.
In the early 1940s, Mom and two of these sisters volunteered to work building aircraft to support the war effort.
Over the years, Mom related bits and pieces about their early years working for the war effort. Each day the three traveled from their home in New Rochelle, NY to the General Motors assembly plant had been converted to build wings for the Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber. Without a car, they were given a ride with a neighbor who also worked at the plant in Tarrytown, NY about twenty-five miles away.
This is the ground on which the General Motors assembly plant stood. You can see some of the rusted steel beams.
By this time, the plant had been demolished to make way for new condos which were going to be built on this site.
While neither Mom nor her sisters received Congressional Gold Metals, I ordered three of these commemorative metals for the families of Mom and two her sisters.
Shortly after the war ended the factories were no longer producing military supplies. As a result most of the women were dismissed. Here is a layoff notification that my aunt received at the conclusion of one of her shifts.
Written by:
Arnie Lee