Category Archives: Personal Anecdotes

Stories about stuff Richard remembers. Not saying his memory is any good.

String theory, a new way to see people…

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Richard Lund

Some ideas take a while to percolate. Guess that is a word that is out of use. Hint: it has something to do with old fashioned coffee makers… So, on this one, I go a ways back. All the way … Continue reading →

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Vintage cities show their roughness in lovely ways…

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Richard Lund

People and buildings may not look much alike, but we can appreciate both for similar reasons: their roughness. Let’s have a look. My travels sometimes take me to interesting places. I look at location photography from a completely self-focused perspective, … Continue reading →

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Another guy named Dick…er, Richard

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Richard Lund

You may not know his name, but you have seen his style. Another guy who called me Dick. We Dicks get along fine with one another. I see that a news reader got into serious hot water of the name … Continue reading →

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Welcome to my world – the strange case of baby vision…

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Richard Lund

What do we see when we come into this world? And what do we learn to do with that sensory input? Let’s have a look… Sometimes I see a picture on facebook in someone’s album and it is sideways. That’s … Continue reading →

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8X10 is more than a glossy photo…

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Richard Lund

My friend Carlos has asked me about how I got my career started. I have talked about part of the story before. Now here is some more of it. I can’t really say that I was planning on taking pictures … Continue reading →

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It’s all about agitation and presentation…

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Richard Lund

Your host trying to remember stuff so I can write it down. Homage to Newt. Ray Newton, the best black-and-white printer with whom I had the pleasure to work, introduced this idea to me. Agitation and Presentation. That was just … Continue reading →

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Of Nikons and Nixon…or a tale of two Richards

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Richard Lund

So, I had a request one day to tell how I got started as a photographer and how I got to do what I love. Consider this part one. It all started in John Marshall High School in Miss Beverly … Continue reading →

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Placing pictures perfectly…possible panorama progress?

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Richard Lund

So you say I shouldn’t quit my day job to alliterate for a living. Okay. But I do some other stuff… Compositing pictures is one of the things that I frequently do, especially for background pictures used in translites. I … Continue reading →

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A true Minnesota story…

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Richard Lund
Richard Lund, Jerome Lund, Lyla Wood Lund, Jean Lund, Steven Lund, Clarence Neil Lund

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The Minnesota Twins and the Lund Boys (Guest essay from Steven Lund, honest!) Today May 17th the Associated Press reported: Harmon Killebrew, the affable, big-swinging Hall of Famer whose tape-measure home runs made him the cornerstone of the Minnesota Twins, … Continue reading →

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The maps, they are a changin’

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Richard Lund

Taking a break from my own pictures, I have a confession to make. I am a news junkie. I am not sure if there is a 12 step group for that, but I have a hard time staying away from … Continue reading →

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