1) I have never used a TA or GA in any of my classes except when I help out with the Materials and Processes of Photography course on an occasional basis. However, this past year there was no TA for M&P and I only helped out with M&P when the primary faculty were ill or otherwise unavailable. 

2) Over the Summer I also look after the Coop program for the program which about 12 Imaging and Photographic Technology students enrolled in last Summer. This is not really a big deal as all I do is to help students register once they have left campus, follow up with the employer evaluations, and turn in grade reports. 

I must admit have not kept a detailed listing and accounting of all the advising meetings I have had with students over the past year. 

I think I have continued to provide individual and group advising to all students in the IPT program on an ongoing and regular basis. I do this through a variety of means. One of the most obvious is the extensive use I make of my departmental students distribution list. I think that the IPT department continues being a leader in establishing and maintaining connections to its students and disseminating information through the use of email. 

I have continued to try to help a few remaining Imaging Systems Management students complete the remaining portions of their program. I expect this will continue to be the case as even though Nitin Sampat is the new McGhee Professor and ISM Chair some past ISM students still seek me out for assistance. I work with Sue Clark on such matters as she has a good historical perspective on the program changes and requirements. 
 

b. Given your 2002-2003 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of teaching/advising. Be sure to include an analysis of student evaluations indicating areas of strength and weaknesses as well as actions taken to address concerns. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be available upon request. (Depending on what your plan of work called for, examples of such documentation could include one or more of the following: student performance data, student evaluations, curricula/syllabi for new or revised courses, advising logs/evaluations)

Last year I stated:

For next year my plan of work vis-a-vis teaching and advising is to:

Well, In reference to the course in High Speed / Time Lapse Photography I am confident that things have improved in some areas and gotten a little more complex in others. The 10 hands-on or laboratory experiences came off pretty much without a hitch this past year and there were no major problems although in two instances the cameras (antiques) that I have to relay on for instruction (I am not complaining about this as I have resolved to teach basics and fundamental knowledge rather than state-of-the-art) failed and I had to rely on handing out sample data that I had prepared ahead of time just in case during a lab session such an eventuality would occur. This did not affect everyone and most of the students still had a first-hand experience. 

Having students build electronic devices with the limited equipment and resources at my disposal proved challenging once again but by having changed procedure and making certain experiences elective rather than required this has allowed me to spend more time with those students that really wanted to have gadget-building experience and thus we were able to complete electronic projects more successfully albeit with fewer students. 

Photoinstrumentation Applications Seminar this past Spring and Fall were major positive experiences for me and the few students that enrolled in it. I think so at least! We explored new "territory" so to speak and made some progress in terms of "harnessing" the concept and practice behind sensitometric velocimetry. Another new project was the making of and perpetration of photographic hoaxes and their analyisis and debunking. The premise is that by knowing how to make non-factual images they will learn how to detect fraudulent ones 

Although I encouraged my students to use a web-based evaluation service at http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ not too many took me up on it. However, I have the following summary evaluation to share based on the responses of 10 students: # Ratings: 10, Average Easiness: 3.5, Average Helpfulness: 5.0, Average Clarity: 4.7, Hotness Total: 0, Overall Quality: 4.8. Averages are based on a maximum score of 5.0. I guess I should work on "hotness" but it may be too late for me on that score.

Although TPSA and the SPIE Student Chapter are "floundering" activities (I paid for the student memberships of 12 students just so we would have the required number of student members in the SPIE chapter which would then allow us to qualify for travel support) I managed to make at least a "virtual" organization and this resulted in SPIE funding to a large extent the travel expenses of two Tech students to the annual SPIE Convention that was held this past year in Sab Diego towards the end of July. I attended the conference with them. 

The clubs also organized several visiting speaker activities and hosted Paul Reichert from NASA Johnson Space Center, a lecture on Criminal Investigations Photography and a special lecture by David Malin, visiting astronomer and photographer from Australia who was here as a guest of the College of Science. 

Although disguised under the "umbrella" of the TPSA/SPIE student club I initiated, organized and offered several Pizza and Movie and raffle parties for Tech students over the year. Also, held a "movie night out" and attended with a dozen students or so a cheap movie at Movies 10 here in Henrietta. The "Rocket Truck", a traditional Tech activity flew on a couple of occasions. I also took a field trip to Niagara Falls with Tech students in the Fall of this past year. 

For next year my plan of work vis-a-vis teaching and advising is to:

2. Scholarship/Creative Activity

Given your 2002-2003 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of scholarship/creative activity. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be available upon request. (Examples of such documentation could include summaries of one or more of the following: published articles, editor's response to unpublished material, exhibition reviews, reviewer's response to submitted grant proposals, consulting outcomes.)

My proposed plan for this past year was:

Well, in VERY general terms I think I pretty much met the stated goals as set forth last year. Salient activities are mentioned below and elaborated on further on. 

I prepared and had on exhibition a new collection of High Speed and Technical Photographs. The exhibition of these images took place over the Summer months at the Discovery Center of Science and Technology located in Bethlehem, PA. Evidence of what this work entailed can be found in a website created to bear testimony to this project. It can be found on the web at: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/high-speed.html 

My photographs were included in three books. Stretch, a book on Panoramic Photography and Pinhole and Home Made Camers, both published by RotoVision of the UK. I also contributed (along with my colleague Michael Peres) photographs in the book Images In Science published by Kobylinska University Press of Sweden. 

I was included in two group exhibitions over the past year although one was in Argentina and the other in the Ukraine! My traveling exhibition "Caritas" was exhibited at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in several locations in the US detailed below as well. This continues to be a very interesting "experiment". 

I did fail to produce new Schlieren photography work or to finish the demonstration focusing schlieren system but instead I made a new collection of Prismatic Diffraction images 

Anyway, briefly but mindful of the fact that an accurate listing of every event, project or contribution throughout the course of the year could be a humongous task and unless done with excruciating and painstaking observance to detail is bound to have left out significant items, hereafter follow some records of activities that might fall under the above umbrella classification: 

Professional Presentations and Publications:

Two of my articles were published in the January 2003 issue of the Newsletter of the Atlantic Chapter of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The first one is "Schlieren Photography Principles" on pp. 6-7, and the second is "Photographing Barn swallows in free flight" on pp. 8-11. I also published in the same RPS Newsletter. "The Phoenix Process". It appears on pages 5-8 of the March 2003 issue of this online publication. In fact, over the course of the year I published several more articles but I really can't find a complete record of them. However, if you are interested you can look them up and download PDF versions of all my articles over the past year on the website of the Atlantic Chapter of the Royal Photographic Society at: http://www.photo.net/users/rps-atlantic.org/news.html 

Two photographs of mine were published in a book entitled SUPERVISION: A NEW VIEW OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD by Ivan Amato, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 

On Wednesday December 18, 2002 Michael Peres and I made a presentation about the Images from Science project to the 17th Annual Winter Guests Program and meeting of the Retired Kodak Research and Engineering group. 

One of my peripheral portraits was featured as a full page image on page 35 of the February (Nude) issue of 2003 of Lake Affect magazine published in Rochester. 

In early December 2002 I installed a little exhibition of digital photographs under the title of "Ensayos", meaning "trials" in Spanish, in the 2nd floor hallway display cases of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. These images were made with a new Canon EOS D1s at a workshop presented by Canon to the SPAS faculty in Portageville, NY earlier in the year.

I was consulted by Dan Feldstein and eventually quoted in the Houston Chronicle on February 8, 2003 regarding the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in the article "Significance of Air Force photo depends on how you look at it".

Along with Doug Rea and two SPAS students contributed to text about photographic education at RIT - in FOTO - article by Michael Dee, "Avsides hundraaring som garna fornyar sig" - pp 26-27, issue Number 1, 2003 

Along with Profs. Michael Peres and Tom Zigon I contributed lectures and workshops to the 73rd Annual BioCommunications Association Conference conference that was held in Las Vegas on March 1-4, 2003. On March 4, 2003 I presented a 1/2 day workshop on Imaging the Invisible Spectrum. On March 3, 2003 I co-presented with Prof. Peres a paper on the Images from Science exhibition. 

On March 3, 2003 I participated in a print-exchange organized by Joe Ippolito for the Photo Imaging Educators Association meeting that was held in Las Vegas in conjunction with PMA's Annual Meeting. 
I participated in a Hewlett-Packard invitational exhibit of photographs that were shown at a conference in New York City and organized by a Daryl Wise (dsw@surfnetusa.com) and although I was promised a copy of the print I never got anything. 

21 of my high speed and scientific photographs were on exhibit during the summer of 2003 from June 21 through September 6 at The Discovery Center of Science & Technology 511 East Third Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015. The exhibition was provided to the Center at no charge and this was organized by Carol Woodley, Marketing Manager, at 610-865-5010 ext. 139 FAX: 610-865-5010 

I gave a public lecture, "Creative visualization of time with scanning techniques", on May 1, 2003 at the Mercer Gallery of Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. This was at the invitation of Ms. Surjit Singh. 

My article "Playing with mirrors at more than 500pps!" was published in the online issue of the Royal Photographic Society Atlantic Chapter newsletter. The article appeared in the June 2003, Vol 1, issue XI, pp 5-9 and can be seen on the web at: http://www.rps-atlantic.org 

I wrote an article on Digital Stroboscopic Photography for the 2003McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. It was illustrated with 4 photographs and one drawing. The editor was: Elizabeth Geller, Managing Editor - Science (elizabeth-geller@mcgraw-hill.com) 

I had a photograph included in Prism and Spectrum a college textbook on COLOR BASICS by Pentak/Roth and published by Thomson Learning. I worked with Sandra Lord, Photoright, LLC, Fort Worth, TX 76109 (sjlord@swbell.net). This fee was also made out to RIT. 

I had an article and 5 full page photographs published in the book STRETCH by Rick Meers, and published in 2003 by RotoVision of Great Britain. They appear on pp: 136-141 of the book under the heading of: Panoramic Masters. 

One of my peripheral portraits was included in the book by Rudolf Kingslake, Optics in Photography, published by SPIE Press, copyright 1992, ISBN 0-8194-0763-1. It is used as an illustration of peripheral photography and appears on page 25. Although this book was published some years ago I only "found" this out when I saw the book at an SPIE meeting in August 2003 in San Diego. 

A six page illustrated section in a new book "Adventures with Pinhole and Home-made Cameras" by John Evans and published in July 2003 by RotoVision of Great Britain is devoted to my work with improvised photographic equipment. The section is on pp. 40-46 and appears under the heading of "All-round visions through a narrow gap". 

8 technical photographs of mine were included in "ART in OPTICS", an exhibition of photographs organized at the University of Kiev in the Ukraine as part of the 4th International Conference in Optics and High Technology Material Science held there from October 23-26, 2003. 

I was included with several pages of text and 17 high speed and technical photographs in the Images in Science book edited by Lennart Moeller of the Karolinska University Press of Stockholm, Sweden ISBN 91-7349-511-5, published in October 2003, pp 149-166. Michael Peres was also included in pp 179-192 
 

Exhibitions of personal work and other related activities:

Among several photographs of mine, reproduction rights for which were either given away for free or where the fee was requested to be paid to RIT instead of to me personally include (this is only a partial listing): 

Antelope - purchased by Frederick Rogovy, (admin@bankruptcysoftware.com) New Hope Software, Inc Mercer Island, WA 98040. $250  

I produced a dozen photographs of the progression stages in the lifetime of a splash caused by a drop of water and six of these images were reproduced on the front and back cover of the Chestnut Burr, Chestnut High School's 2004 yearbook. $200.

Splash photograph contributed as a professional courtesy to a medical group in the Netherlands to use as part of an announcement regarding "Familial Hyperchlesterolemia Screening in the Netherlands" offered by Merel von Maarle of Amsterdam, m.c.vanmaarle@amc.uva.nl

Ripples on a water surface photograph used by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upsate Medical University as a cover illustration for their 2002 Annual Report. They contributed $75 to my RIT High Speed restricted account for this use.

Stroboscopic Motion Photograph for a newspaper Germany as requested by Monika Moelders, (Moelders@ltg.uni-frankfurt.de) who on Freitag, 27. Juni 2003 said: "Andrew, I will send you an issue of our newspaper. The photo must have more than 300 dpi. We want to use the picture in a size of 1/3 page. Our address is: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, press office, Monika Mvlders, Senckenberganlage 31, 60325 Frankfurt". $75  

One of my photographs of a flying bullet was included in the TV show "Bullets" aired on August 13th, 2003. My contact for this was Tamara Phillips (tamarap@actualprod.com). Free. 

My photograph of a water drop splash was reproduced on the cover of a music CD recorded at Orangewood Recording by the group SunHouse. In exchange for a copy of their CD!.

My photograph of a bullet smashing through a Jolt soda can was reproduced on a Free Soda Drink voucher distributed at a Gay and Lesbian informational conference held in Bonn, Germany. Contributed to the group at no charge.

My photograph of a blue splash is included on many sites on the WWW with (and without!) permission. Here is one instance where permission was sought and granted http://zakar.com/shoshana/Mylib/raindrop.html.

Several images of mine were included in the eFluids website, a compilation of examples of fluid flow. For example: www.efluids.com/efluids/gallery/convection_candle.htm and here: www.efluids.com/efluids/gallery/splash.htm

Another of my photographs of a splash was used on a promotional card by the Kings Drainage Co. of the UK. They contributed $75 to my RIT High Speed restricted account for this use.

On December 12, 2003 Rob Callahan of Superior Exhibits & Design, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 (rcallahan@superiorexhibits.com) asked the following: "I am doing an exhibit about germs for a not for profit museum. I saw a sneeze photo on your web site showing the moisture droplets after a oriental girl sneezed. Is that photo available for use by this museum?" I answered yes and he agreed to a payment to RIT for $150 for this one time use.

I received and complied with the following request: From: Bartholdi Silvia (SBartholdi@ofv.ch), "We have found the picture of a bullet on your website: www.rit.edu/~andpph/photofile-c/schlieren-2002-bullet-1.jpg We would like to use this photo (picture) in our textbook "Physikaufgaben" (excercise book for 10-12th grade) due for publication around April 2004. We'd appreciate your giving us permission to use this picture for the above mentioned purpose. Please let us know the cost for a non-exclusive publication. Do you have a digitalized version (high resolution, in any case more than 150 dpi) of this picture (photo)? If so, we'd appreciate your letting us know. Thanking you in advance for your kind help. 
Best regards Silvia Bartholdi, orell fuessli Verlag AG, 8036 Zuerich, Germany" 

I contributed a splash photograph to a book on Metallurgy being published in Mexico at the request of its author, Bernardo Hernandez Morales (bernie@servidor.unam.mx) of the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. 

I had a photo of a Prism and Spectrum purchased for use in a Physics book by Caroline Jasper Studio, Bel Air, MD 21015 (jasperinc@mindspring.com). Free 

I participated in the Annual SPAS Faculty Exhibition whenever it took place in 2003. 

I donated a Phoenix Process photographic portrait opportunity to the 2003 Rochester Annual WXXI Fine Art Auction . 

On Friday April 4, 2003 I presented a lecture, "Scanning Photography - Time, Technology and Art", at the Math Awareness Month activities sponsored by the RIT Math and Statistics Department.

I also donated a print to the Palm Beach Photographic Workshops, "Picture my World" program to help at-risk children. 

Installed and presented the Images from Science collection at the Annual  SPIE Conference held in late July - early August in San Diego, CA.

I judged an exhibition of photographs for Camera Rochester on the evening of June 2, 2003 

I participated in several web-based or "virtual" galleries throughout the year. These include the (local) PhotoForum list's gallery and the Certamen de Fotored which operates out of Spain and a Haiku oriented gallery out of Japan. 

 My "Little Faces" or "Caritas" traveling exhibition was exhibited at various locations over the course of the past year. Most noteworthy this past year was the fact it was shown at several locations around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology including the MIT Media Lab. A running history of this project is accessible on the web at the following address: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/davidhazy.html. 

I also donated free-of-charge reproduction rights to several of my photographs to several charitable and non-profit organizations. My blue water splash photograph seems to attract particular attention on the Internet and I authorized reproduction rights free of charge (but asking for SPAS connected byline!)  to individuals working in medicine, dance, sports, water purification, etc. 

Professional activities and consulting:

I conducted some preliminary research on injector performance for a Syracuse-based company introducing a medical injector. I am attaching a brief summary of the outcome. "The jet is moving a lot faster than I anticipated and so the stroboscope, flashing 400 times a second, is probably not useful as the jet will travel a distance of an inch or so
about a 1/2000 second. The high speed video, while it seems to work, is problematic for me because my system is old and I am not sure I can guarantee it will function well for all the testing you are thinking of doing. The streak record is OK too in my opinion but you all need to feel comfortable with the technology. It does seem that if looked at over a long distance (even 5cm seems long given how the jet seems to behave!) the velocity changes. There seems to be acceleration present. This is indicated in both the streak and the video record. At least I believe so. The jet does "taper off" at end of action although the end is quite abrupt small particles still are being ejected. This is also clearly shown in the streak record. In the video record these small trailing drops and the breakup of the stream are also visible. BTW, the total duration of the event is only about 1/200th of a second according to my tests and the speed is in the less than 150 to the more than 250 fps range depending on when the measurement is made. I have yet a third camera system that I may try using but have not decided to do so yet. It would be nice to have a "jig" or gadget that would fire the injector upon seeing the closure of a switch instead of having to pull the trigger by hand. Awaiting your feedback and thoughts on these preliminary results. As sent to: pmb168@psu.edu, lindaD1@twcny.rr.com, nicksr@twcny.rr.com 

I reviewed and wrote a letter of evaluation for tenure for a Prof. Rantoul of Northeastern University at the request of their tenure committee. My contact there was Prof. Dennis Miller (de.miller@neu.edu) 

During the course of the year I wrote and installed on my webpage of articles about my experiments and personal "investigations" the following pieces:

How Instantaneous is a slaved Electronic Flash? Photographers use slaved electronic flashes as a matter of course but seldom question the delay between the firing of a main flash and that of the second, slaved, flash. Find out how such small time delays are determined using a Cordin rotating mirror streak camera. 

Calibrating your shutters with TV and Turntable. Experiment with leaf and focal plane shutter calibration tests based on widely accepted audio and video standards. Plus learn seldom discussed facts about the operation of focal plane shutters and how moving subjects become their own shutters!. 

Splashes, splashes and more splashes! How to make photographs of splashes is a topic that has interested many photographers since the advent of photography. Here are some tips and suggestions regarding a controlled approach to photographing them without wasting excessive amounts of film or time. Added here on Sept. 25, 2003 

How to make a "Leaf" or "Book" style astronomical tracking mount. General description of a device designed to counterrotate the camera along an axis parallel to that of Earth to pan along with the apparent motion of the stars to prevent "trailing" or blurres images of stars over extended time exposures. Based on an earlier text file this was added here on Sept. 22, 2003 

Reflected UV Digital Photography with improvised image converter.Description of a quick-'n-dirty improvisation to make images made up of ultraviolet reflected or transmited by subjects using a standard digital camera equipped with a CCD sensor that is notoriously insensitive in the ultraviolet. The basis for the approach is the use of a fluorescing image converter. Added 08-25-2003. 

An overview of High Speed Photographic Imaging.This is an introduction to several topics related to high speed photography from electronic flash to rotating prism and rotating mirror cameras to streak and synchroballistic applications of various high speed maging systems. It served as the basis for an article in an encyclopedia. 

Basic Digital Rollout or Peripheral Photography. A recent (May 2003) rewrite of several past articles on applying a linear CCD array from an old hand scanner to the purpose of making "rollout" or peripheral photographs of people rotating on a mechanized turntable. The article still needs illustrations but some results can be seen http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/davidhazy.html

Polaroid Type 667 and an alternative Sabattier Technique. The Sabattier effect has seen a resurgence of interest due to the discovery that Polaroid Type 55 material can be used to achieve it. In this article the application of a less well known material, Polaroid Type 57 or 667 is demonstrated to be equally or even more suited to the task when coupled with modern digital image management techniques. April 2003. 

Photographing birds in flight. Birds in flight make for a challenging subject. Although this has been done many times by other photographers this article describes my introductory experiences with this fast paced and unpredictable event. Barnswallows in action! April 2003. 
 

So what are my plans for next year? Well ...

Given your 2002-2003 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of service. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be available upon request.(Examples of such documentation could include summaries of one or more of the following: committee chair statements, recruitment calls made, high schools visited, alumni contacts, development efforts, portfolio days.)

Well, my plans in this area last year simply stated the following:

High Schools visited and related recruiting activities:

On April 22, 2003 I was the host for several Bay Trail Middle School students as part of an activity organized by RIT's Debra J. Freeman, Office of K-12 Programs, (djfk12@rit.edu). 

On May 29, 2003 I gave a two hour lecture on special effects photography at Webster High School at the invitation of the photography teacher there, Patty LaVea, (Patty_LeVea@websterschools.org). There were about 30 seniors and juniors in attendance. 

I contributed to the SPAS Photography Explorers Post of the Otetiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America in the Fall quarter if 2003. I participated with two separate Thursday evening lecture/demos this year. One on October 16, 2003 and the second one three weeks later. The topics included  Matte-Box photography, Infrared photography and blur photography, Also stroboscopic photography of ping-pong ball and made two "angel" photographs. It went quite well this year as I noticed that a few of the visitors smiled and a couple that were obnoxious at the beginning became "believers" at around the 25% mark of the first presentation. 

I presented an exhibit on behalf of the IS&T (while also distributing information about the IPT program) at the 32nd Annual Science Exploration Days held on May 14 and 15, 2003 at St. John Fisher College. I have been doing this for at least 31 consecutive years (except one year when I forgot they had changed the date and I got there a week late!). This event is organized by: Central Western Section of the Science Teachers Association of New York State. My contacts there: Michael Dupre, Mike Cargas, Ted Sawyko, Sheila Root, Jutta Dudley. 

On Thursday, May 6th , 2003 I participated in the day-long science fair type event offered by the College of Engineering to the Rochester community. It is the E3 Fair and the invitation came from Dr. Satish Kandlikar (sgkeme@ritvax.isc.rit.edu)  Herewith a brief excerpt of acknowledgement of participation: "The Rochester Engineering Society E3 Fair committee would like to thank all of you and your organizations helping us create an excellent venue for our area students to show their innovation with science and technology. .... Thanks to all - we had great participation from a diverse range of organizations and technologies. Your involvement directly influenced several hundred local middle school students, and our future work force, to continue their science and engineering education. See you next year. Kurt Uetz, E3 Fair Booth Co-Chair 

I presented a lecture at the 22nd annual Science Educators' Conference that was held at the Rochester Museum and Science Center on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 25-26, 2003. My lecture was: Technical Projects with Digital Photography". A brief description of the talk was: "Digital photography makes possible several "technical" projects that provide novel imaging insights for students and teachers alike. Imaging the infrared, tracking motion with stroboscopy, shutters as stop-watches, close-up photography and other projects will be introduced and demonstrated." The applications actually explained and demonstrated were the following: 1. Long exposure time tracking of ping-pong ball thrown and bouncing across field of view. 2. Improvised mechanical stroboscope for position vs. time tracking. 3. Timing or calibrating the stroboscope. 4. Image size vs. distance ratios or relationships. Ted Sawyko (sawyko@eznet.net) invited me to participate in the conference. 

I loaned a 12 inch Schlieren mirror to a graduate student working on an MFA degree at Carnegie Mellon University. It is still being used by Ruth Stanford (rstanfor@andrew.cmu.edu, corgiorrgi@yahoo.com). 

On Wednesday July 23, 2003 I gave a one hour lecture/demo to several visiting Pittsford gifted students brought to SPAS by Robert Rountree 

At the invitation of Gerrie Baker and Julie Bishop I again participated for a full-day Career Day 2003 event at the Spencerport High School held this past year on March 12, 2003. My schedule for the day was presentations on 7:30-8:10, 9:50-10:30, 10:35-11:15, 12:05-12:45 and 12:50-1:30 

I spent two full days on a lecture/demo recruiting "mission" to Lancaster High School and Lewiston-Porter High Schools located in the Buffalo area. I left Rochester early on Thursday, January 9th and stayed overnight in Buffalo and returned Friday, January 10th late afternoon. I did receive reimbursement for transportation, hotel and meal expenses. I met with about 75 students in Lancaster and 125 in Lewiston-Porter. This is how the request "developed": From: Michael Townsend <townsenm@lew-port.com> Re: Possible visit to LP and Lancaster on Tue, 26 Nov 2003 Hi Andy - It looks like we are set for your visit.  As per request, how does Thursday, January 9th and Friday, January 10th sound for your visit?  If that's okay - here's the deal -  It would probably be better if you visited Lancaster first - in other words, arrive at their school Thursday morning at your convenience, although I suspect they would like you there by 8 AM if at all possible.  Lancaster is right off of the Depew exit, so it is a one hour drive at the most. Assuming you can do Lancaster first, after school, we will wine and dine (actually brew and dine - some place like TGIF or Applebee's) and then put you up for the night at a place like Fairfield Inn or hopefully Hampton Inn.  Then, I get to see you on Friday at Lewiston-Porter which will be a 45 minute drive from the hotel strip. However, I don't have a class until 10 o'clock, so it might be easier to come to LP first, and that way, we could put you up in the Falls as well - that might be an option - I'll look into it - some nice hotels there at a reasonable rate this time of year. Anyway, it looks like my school district will pay your expenses, since Lancaster and LP are sharing expenses for another speaker.  My director said we can do this one of two ways - you pay up front and we will re-imburse, or if we know exactly where you'd like to stay and if we can get a voucher for your dinner, Lew-Port will pay up front. Let me know how this works for you, please.

Also - please don't forget that I would very much like to attend your workshops for perhaps one final time.  I can retire in two years, but since my son is only 11, I might go longer.  In any event, I'd like a chance to go if at all possible.  Looking forward to your response -  Mike

I was a guest lecturer at the Association of Texas Photography Instructors conference held in Austin, TX from Feb 21-23, 2003. I presented a workshop on "Stroboscopic Photography with digital cameras" and a lecture on "Digital and conventional Infrared photography". This conference is attended by students and teachers enrolled in photography programs at various photo education programs throughout the state of Texas. For one full day of the conference I "manned" a booth representing (and promoting) the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences on the conference floor. 

In October 2003 I again participated in RIT's Brick City Festival presenting a lecture/demonstration "Special Effects Photography" in 07B-1400 to an audience that was supposed to be about 20 but which turned out to be about 50. It was fun and I think it was informative to the visitors. 

I brought Nikon Small World exhibition back to the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences for the 13th year. This collection of photographs is generously sent to us by the Nikon Corporation and is available to us for a whole year and displayed on the walls of the Dr. Ron Francis Photographic Chemistry lab. The IPT dept pays shipping one way. 

I helped organize, schedule and contributed to a faculty recruitment initiative that has been very well received by our own photo faculty as well as visiting teachers and professors of photography from other schools, namely the Basic Photo/Imaging Workshop for Educators. It would not be possible without the generous contribution from many colleagues here at the School but then, again, it might not happen at all if some of them did not talk me into trying it once more for the last 9 years or so. 

I made a "recruiting" presentation to Clayton Adams' Photo 2 class at 10 AM, on Monday, 10 Dec. 2003, in room 07B-3105. 

On November 12, 2003 I gave an (emergency - somehow need was unscheduled) impromptu lecture/demo to 15 visiting BOCES High School students from Olean. Did high speed, matte box and peripheral photo demonstrations. These are what you might call my "bread and butter" demonstrations.

Development efforts:

Development efforts were again completely unsuccessful in terms of being able to acquire major gifts from corporations. 

Anyway, this year I received a significant amount of expired motion picture film from NASA Johnson Space Center for the cost of shipping. We used some of this film in the High Speed/Time Lapse photography course this fall. We found that this film was in fairly good shape and had applicatiuon in the High Speed photography course. Our high speed video system has finally failed completely and I relied on film cameras to provide some high speed imaging experience. . 

Committees: I am on the SPAS Chairs Committee, Bill DuBois is co-chair but in fact he is the chair that provides leadership and organization to this group. I am also on the Dean's Leadership Committee and on the Institute Academic Grievance Committee but do not recall who the chair of this committee is. We had no meetings last year. 

I am a member of the International Society for Optical Engineering's Edgerton Award Committee as well as the overall Awards Committee. I attended the meeting of this group at the SPIE Annual Conference in late July 2003. I am the Internet liaison for The Photographic Historical Society and maintain for them an Internet presence off my website. 

Alumni Contacts: I maintain regular contact with all graduates of the Imaging and Photographic Technology program. I have compiled a list of all their email addresses and have been keeping in touch with updates and news of job opportunities and so on over the years. I maintain a news page on the web for them as well as current students. Check it out at: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/ipt-news.html 

My plan of work for next year:

4. Other

If your 2002-2003 plan of work, called for any special activity outside of the above three categories, please provide an appropriate review of the evidence that such plans have been achieved.
 

Well, I am not sure if this falls under "other" or what ... these items are simply additional activities accomplished or in which I was significantly involved. Most of these activities contribute, I hope, to overall school recruitment and to keeping the image of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences as a center for top-notch photographic education in the minds of the local and the larger photo/imaging community. (I used the preceding paragraph verbatim form last year's report - FYI) 

Last year I stated:

I think the items listed below give some credence to the fact I did pursue several activities that could be listed under "other" . I noticed I mentioned "postcards" above. I did publish at my own expense (well, with funds earned from sales of my photographs the proceeds of which I directed to a restricted account from which then I spend for such purposes) two more sets of postcards intended for recruitment to the Imaging and Photographic Technology program.

I was instrumental in promoting the 100th Anniversary of Photographic Instruction at RIT and collaborated with Debra McKinzie in this project. My responsibility included the gathering of historical photographs of faculty and students and their installation in the showcases on the 2nd floor. I also gave the event its "Internet Face" by designing and presenting various kinds of information related to the festivities on the web. Once the celebration was over I worked to install on the web the Alumni Show that was organized by Ken White. 

I organized a website showcasing current faculty work. 

I participated in the PhotoExpo convention at the Javits Center in NYC and in addition to my usual routine of making visitors to our booth "happy" by making peripheral portraits. 

In October 2003 I organized a field trip for Imaging and Photographic Technology students to Niagara Falls and took the group of students who participated on a tour aboard the Maid of the Mist. 

I have continued my long-term association with William Allen, Art Department, Arkansas State University, working with him on a collaborative project that is an INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORIANS associated with the History of Photography Group. My contribution to his project is to help him collect people's names who are interested in being listed in his directory. I do this through the RITphoto account that I established many years ago. 

I also oversee, manage and forward requests for information about School of Photographic Arts and Sciences photography programs collected through a form installed on the SPAS and the IPT websites. This past year these forms generated over 3000 inquiries about our photography programs with the bulk of them, of course, being requests for information about the BFA degree programs. 

Continuing on from before, on a regular basis I make sure to add a link to the SPAS website, and the IPT website if appropriate, in any Internet venue where this possibility is offered. Essentially this contributes to making our presence as a significant photographic educational organization more visible on the Internet. Since as part of the PhotoForum project I maintain an extensive (currently more than 3000) list of links to photographers, corporations, schools, etc. I accept "link exchanges" to that list in exchange for a listing for our school. This also helps keep our profile on the Internet high. 

I have set-up a "question and answer" project on the Internet under the title of PhotoQuest, where anyone can pose a question related to photography and I then try answer the question myself or try to identify people who might have the answer to the question. 

I am the recipient for some reason or another of numerous question related to photography. I have answered over 500 inquiries this past year from things as simple as "What kind of batteries does the Nimslo camera take?" to complex questions related to ultraviolet and infrared photography, ultra-high speed photography, schlieren systems, authentication of unexplained phenomena, etc. 

I continue manage the PhotoForum mail list on the Internet and besides dealing with day to day issues related to smooth operation of the list itself, I am "proud" to say that I have again installed a brand new gallery of list member's images on the web every Saturday morning of the year. I have been doing this actually since 1996 without anyone here in SPAS really knowing anything about it. I also organized several "specialty" exhibitions, one on Street Photography and another on Greetings. PhotoForum serves about 650 members worldwide. 

I also have continued to look after the Fotored mail list. This one does not have a weekly gallery (its photographic "presence" is felt primarily thought the member's traveling exhibition) but is very active and the language used is Spanish. Fotored served about 400 individuals worldwide. 

Finally, I also manage a mail list called PhotoHist-L designed to particularly be of service to SPAS photography students but I have not been too successful in making this list "come alive". I am planning to devote a little more effort to creating a spark under this list but this past I have not had the time to do so. 

I do provide, as a "public service" activity, support of The Photographic Historical Society of Rochester and give them webspace on my site (obviously identified with SPAS and RIT!) as well as web design services. This past year they hosted the PhotoHistory XII Symposium, an international photographic event, and as their Internet "liaison" I did much Internet promotion and online registration and related work for them in connection with the event. I also was the MC at the Symposium for one of the sessions dealing with Photographic Hardware. 

The Bulletin Board type of exhibition web space I designed for students in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences to submit photographs and participate in online discussions about them was discontinued by me due to repeated abuse and "spamming". In fact, several such projects I installed I have had to discontinue due to abuse. Installing these Bulletin Boards took time. Dealing with abuse took another chunk of time and then finally making the decision to discontinue the projects took yet another bit of time. Very frustrating. 

I again helped publicize many events that took place last year at the School by redistributing news items of many kinds, from lectures, to scholarships and contest, through various means. An initiative I established in 1995, the RITphoto@rit.edu address, is becoming well known among the school's students and possibly even the school's faculty!. 
 

For next year:

In summary, I once again (how do you like that!) want to thank all my immediate colleagues in the Imaging and Photographic Technology department, as well as all its students, for making working in the department such a pleasure (most of the time!). I am certain when I say that without the support of my friends my activities and contributions would not be possible.

Also I want to thank the faculty members in the Biomedical Photography program for their overall support and contributions to the School and Michael Peres in particular for his collegiality and responsible leadership of the department. 

I believe the programs and departments flourish with buy in from the faculty that design the program and while I plan on consulting and providing advice I believe that the "ship is in their capable hands" and I trust they will make of that program whatever is most appropriate much as the faculty immediately associated with Imaging and Photographic Technology will look after this program. As far as the Imaging Systems Management program hopefully this program will "find its feet", so to speak , under the leadership of the new McGhee Chair Prof. Nitin Sampat and again become successful and contributing program to the smorgasboard of photo programs offered in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. 

Finally, there are three items in particular that concern me (particularly with respect to the Imaging and Photographic Technology program and department) and that I hopefully will make some improvement on in the coming year. They are: 1. The retirement of Dr. Rus Kraus and the impact this will have on the offering of the Materials and Processes of Photography course, 2. the move of Prof. Sampat to Imaging Systems Management and the impact this will have on the offering of Digital Imaging offerings and the establishment of some kind of image processing laboratory within the IPT department, and 3. re-examining the IPT course sequences and the faculty teaching them especially in the areas of sensitometry. 
 
 

This self evaluation and your proposed plan of work for December 1, 2002 to November 30, 2003 is due to your Administrative Chair on January 6, 2004. 
 
 

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