Winter 2015 Activities

Publishing a Book and Photographing a Wedding
January and February, 2015

Paul served in the Peace Corps in Iran in the mid 1960s. Soon after he returned he wrote about his experiences during the two years. Recently he went back to the original manuscript, which was on our website for a while, to re-edit the text. Paul had taken a lot of pictures during his stay using an old Argus 35mm camera with a 50mm lens and Kodachrome ASA 10 slide film. At one point he scanned the slides, but didn't do a very good job. Enter Grace. She worked over all the pictures, doing marvelous things to them using Lightroom. She also learned how to use the Blurb Plug-In for Adobe InDesign to create a customized book. This has been large project and we are both happy we completed it. The book can be viewed online, in its entirety at:
http://www.blurb.com/b/5944170-hello-mister

Grace was asked to be the wedding photographer for one of Paul's cousins on Valentines Day. Since she had never done this kind of photography, she studied, listened to tutorial, got some extra photo gear, and practiced. Paul was also the co-photographer, and covered different aspects of the two day event. We covered the rehearsal, dinner, getting ready for the wedding, the actual ceremony and the reception. It was a beautiful wedding which blended the American traditional and aspects of the Fiji Hindu traditions. After Grace developed the photos using Adobe Lightroom she posted some of them on line at PitzerShare.Smugmug.com. Then she completed a lovely wedding album for the bride and groom: This is open for viewing at:
http://www.blurb.com/b/6023557-raj-and-amy-singh

After these two big events, Grace and Paul left for Arizona for some R&R for a few week.

Stay tuned for more adventures with the Pitzers.


That's it for now. Grace and Paul