To my surprise, out of the blue came a Norwegian programmer, photographer, and entrepreneur to my rescue. Trond W. Andersen, like myself is an entrepreneur, a skilled photographer, and also a programmer. Sounds familiar.
Anderson has been following my blog on Facebook from time to time and can see I need help with the huge photography task I am knee-deep in and has offered to help me build some programming tools.
Although I’m a programmer, I have not had any programming system on my computer for some years now. Trond knows the programming language ‘Python’ and uses it with the help of ChatGPT.
We are going to install Python on my computer and Anderson will build some tools to help me wade through some million computer photos I have and drill down to the best of what I have to donate to the Ann Arbor Public Library system, so that these photos can be available and free to all comers for the foreseeable future.
We had our first Zoom conference on the project this morning. Andersson is a professional photographer, providing a select group of international clienteles with precise photographs of jewelry, precious jewels and gemstones.
He first found some of my posts in photography forums, if I understand him correctly, and has been reading some of my articles on lenses and photography.
Anderson has volunteered his service to help me master this photo project I am in the middle of, designing tools to make my work easier.
I am also interested in further Zoom calls for Anderson to talk about lenses and I am interested in the kind of lighting techniques needed to shield the photography of jewelry from unwanted highlights.
I’m used to donating my materials to others, but was delighted to find someone offering to lend me a hand on this photo project and help get it done.
