Glen T. Nygreen: 1919 – 2010
photographed in Scarsdale, New York on October 16, 2009

We learned again that this America, which Abraham Lincoln called the last best hope of man on Earth, was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by … voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than [...]

photographed in Brooklyn, New York, on January 29, 2010

It was a calm, still evening. The broad bosom of the Thames was scarcely ruffled by the little breeze that stirred the drooping sails of some of the river craft. Over the city and over the forest of masts, the round full moon was rising. Touching on [...]

photographed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2009

Ammon (or Hammon; Egyptian Amun, the hidden or veiled one). A god native to Libya and Upper Egypt. He was represented sometimes in the shape of a ram with enormous curving horns, sometimes in that of a ram-headed man, sometimes as a perfect man standing up or sitting [...]

Western Pennsylvania. October 20, 2007.
As a summer resident the Red-winged Blackbird is a familiar sight in low meadows and along roadsides. At a little distance he appears only to be a plain, black bird, but as he extends his wings his brilliant epaulets come into prominence. The plumage of the female, though inconspicuous, is singularly [...]

New Orleans, Louisiana. July 31, 2009.
In short, the knowledge of “citizens” is symptomatic and therefore different from that of the police, at least when this knowledge functions strategically and doesn’t complete more superficial operations for appearances sake or to reassure people (such as patrolling or checking IDs in area considered high-risk). Thus, the typical citizens’ [...]

Paris, France. September 19, 2009.
The allegories of the map discussed so far – positionality, movement and practices – set out the modalities through which subjects come to place themselves in the power-ridden, discursively-constituted, practically-limited, materially-bounded identities. The subject assumes, in both senses of the word, an identity on the basis of commonality with others [...]

Afloat in the Caribbean Sea. July 25, 2009.
Team A listed their goal in communication as the simultaneous fulfillment of three objectives: (1) to provide a gestalt message (the whole message is greater than the sum of the parts/components), (2) to use a systems approach, and (3) to incorporate redundancy in the markers.
For the gestalt message, [...]

St. Paul, Minnesota. October 10, 2009.
We are not born knowing how to communicate; it is something we learn just as we learn to tie our shoes (or wear them). Clearly, if we do not come with the knowledge “built in,” is knowledge we must “pick up” elsewhere. We can speak of children being “inducted” into [...]

July 31, 2009. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Like any other tourist, he made his way east on Marlbourough Street and down Frederic Street and then walked along Shirley Street until he reached the Public Library. He had already heard about this curious place, but it was nothing like what he imagined. Like everything else in Nassau, it [...]

Chicago, Illinois. August 8, 2009.
Depth of field is the term used to describe those circles of least confusion that appear to the human eye to be in focus. When we do qualitative research, finding the appropriate depth of field or range of focus is one of our first challenges. When faced with complex family [...]

San Diego, California. July 10, 2009.
If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn / I could arm a town the size of Abilene. / Don’t you push me baby, ‘Cause I’m all alone / And you know I’m only in it for the gold.
All that I am asking is for ten gold [...]

Chicago, Illinois. March 16, 2008.
An Act to amend the first and second sections of the act entitled “An act to authorize the Board of Education of the incorporated village of Wapakoneta, in the county of Auglaize, to borrow money and issue bonds to build a school-house, or additions to the school-house in said town.
Section 1. [...]

Chicago, Illinois. December 12, 2008. Talking to a very clever young person, you do not stick at hard words; on the other hand, you do not seek mystery. In the course of that meeting that never happened, that meeting whose scene remained inside Leopold, she would have told what she had done without looking for [...]

As I said earlier, it was a shame the race was cancelled. I still had a great time, though.  See the rest of my dad’s marathon pictures here.