Thank you so much, Greg! I'm so glad you like the photo and even more glad that you got to watch/listen to the documentary. If I can get you to start listening to classical music then I have done you a great service.
All best wishes, my friend!
Endre
gregfountain wrote:
Terrific image, beautiful daughter(s) and even more beautiful story! You make me maybe want to give classical music a spot on my playlist! Color me impressed!
Gorgeous shot of your daughter. I hope you have some shots without the dog too. In a very small way, the attention is divided between the two subjects in the shot.
Math genius. Great. Does she do contests, like USAMO, CMO, AMO or even IMO? My son did well in these and now attends a "big" University, as you call it. PM me to discus if you want.
Strad wrote:
Thanks so much, Jim! I appreciate your very kind comments and am glad you like it!
Actually, Katalin - the one in the photo - is 16 and has been going to junior college for two years collecting credits to transfer to a big University. She is a math genius and wants to be a Chemical Engineer. The older daughter - Csilla - was a prodigy in fashion and costume design and got a degree in such from FIDM- The Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandizing in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, although she has done costuming for a number of theater shows, a steady living in costuming is very difficult to come by so she has decided to go to nursing school, instead. Now that Obamacare has destroyed any incentive for people to become doctors, nursing will be a big growth industry. She was among only 10 out of 260 transfer applicants accepted to Mount Saint Mary's nursing school - one of the best in the country - and also got the "Dean's Scholarship" based on how much they liked her application. I am a proud Daddy, indeed! I attribute all this to our having homeschooled all our kids. It kept them out of the clutches of the government-run propaganda system and allowed them to flourish intellectually and personally.
It's too bad that you felt it necessary to take the occasion on a photography forum to interject your political beliefs. However, it has succeeded in showing me another, rather unpleasant, side of a man that I otherwise still respect for his artistic talents.
I appreciated your comments about you daughter going into nursing and how bad becoming a doctor is. My wife studied art in college and decided that after she got out and got a pitiful paying job that unless she did something else she would forever live in her parents basement. And this was someone that had scored perfect on her math SAT test, 800 out of 800.
She decided to go back to school and was studying to be a medical technician. She was able to get a job running tests on blood etc and when she realized that doctors were asking her what the results of a test meant, she decided that she could do their job and applied for medial school and was accepted.
She decided to become an Ob/Gyn and had to put in the extra requirements of residency to be certified in that area. All of her schooling from beginning to end was paid by her. 101% by her. She was the first in her family to ever go to college. In fact her dad told her she was wasting her money going to college!
She didn't waste her money....she has had a good career, BUT, the changes in medical care make being a doctor a bad business to be in. For the 4 consecutive years she has made less than the year before. Her rent, utilities, supplies, employees and medical malpractice insurance goes up every year, but the reimbursement rate goes down. The doctor is caught between a rock and a hard spot. Her only option to make the same money as the year before is to work more and more. Crappy business model.
When we can't find doctors in the future that all the work and expense they go through to get there is no longer worth it remember the business model that has been forced on them!
So on to your photo...really great! Can you share where the light(s) were located relative to your camera position and your camera setting?
Wow. Superb photo of a beautiful daughter. Indeed an incredibly talented family. Thanks for sharing the video also. I love the violin but the cats in the neighborhood don't like my practice.
Thank you, Jim! I'm so glad you like it. I did take some shots without the dog although I don't think they were as successful. I will continue to play with them, though. The idea was to emulate some of those old paintings of royal palace children from the 16th and 17th centuries, where they were often depicted holding their favorite pet.
I know nothing about any of those contests but I shall PM you about them. Her interest in math and science has only recently come to her attention since she has been going to college.
All best wishes,
Endre
Jim Rickards wrote:
Gorgeous shot of your daughter. I hope you have some shots without the dog too. In a very small way, the attention is divided between the two subjects in the shot.
Math genius. Great. Does she do contests, like USAMO, CMO, AMO or even IMO? My son did well in these and now attends a "big" University, as you call it. PM me to discus if you want.
Thanks, Tom for your fascinating post and your kind comments on my photos. I'm always happy when people like them.
I assume you take umbrage at my having obliquely mentioned Obamacare in the post since I can find nothing else even remotely political. I do find it sad that as a result of a mere offhanded reference to the observable consequences of Obamacare I can be turned into an "unpleasant" person in your eyes. My wife is an Emergency Doctor and Obamcare has caused our family real, direct, and tangible suffering, to say nothing of her colleagues, all of whom are disgruntled and looking forward to quitting medicine as soon as possible, as a result. People forget that lofty, well-intentioned legislations often have very substantial unintended negative real-world effects. I'm not going to belabor it beyond that because nothing I say will redeem me. Too bad.
All best wishes,
Endre
Hi Endre...
Beautiful photograph, as are all of your posts.
It's too bad that you felt it necessary to take the occasion on a photography forum to interject your political beliefs. However, it has succeeded in showing me another, rather unpleasant, side of a man that I otherwise still respect for his artistic talents.
