{"id":21713,"date":"2018-11-13T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=21713"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:46:44","slug":"favorite-photo-november-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=21713","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, November 13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Yim plays Eric Satie’s “Vexations” a total of 840 times. Lamoni, Iowa. November 13, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite photo for this date was created at a rather remarkable and rare event. Dr. Yim, who teaches at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, did a performance of legendary avant garde composer Eric Satie’s “Vexations”. He played it 840 times which took 27 hours and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Why do this?<\/p>\n

The idea comes from Satie’s notes which talk about playing the piece continuously for a total of 840 times. It was decades after Satie’s death when a team of pianists did that for the first time in a public performance. One pianist would play until weariness set in, then another would play.<\/p>\n

Doing this as a single performer is much more rare. Dr. Yim did his performance without a break. During the entire 27 hour and 22 minute performance he did not even stand up for a stretch break. It was an incredible act of determination and commitment.<\/p>\n

I think doing this is the pianist’s equivalent of climbing Mt. Everest without using oxygen tanks. You do it because the challenge is there.<\/p>\n

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Super Moon, November 13, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

My second favoraite image for this date was taken on the night of a “super moon”, an over hyped media term. It means the full moon is a little closer to earth than usual and a little bigger (about 10-14%) than it usually is. The difference in size is barely noticeable to the unaided eye. But it does get people outside to look at the moon.<\/p>\n

I used a Canon 7D Mark II camera with a Canon EF 70-300mm f\/4-5.6 L series lens. The digital field of view crop of the 7D<\/a> gives an equivalent 35mm focal length of 480mm. The exposure was f\/11, 1\/100 second, at ISO 100. This image is cropped from the original frame.<\/p>\n

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Super Moon. Lunar maria (seas) labeled in white and craters in cyan. November 13, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

For those of you who are curious, here is the same image with the seas and some major craters marked. Apollo 11 landed at Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility).<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0all about this series<\/p>\n

How to Photograph the Super Moon<\/a> – or any full moon<\/p>\n

Field of View Crop in Digital SLRs<\/a><\/p>\n

The Best Night, Astronomy, and Astrophotography Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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