A life in slides
Ruth Adair
Thirty-eight field seasons on Kodachrome, scanned at the kitchen table and shown in the front room.
Start the showSlides
Thirty out of eleven thousand
Three from every tray. Click one and the lights go down.
Trays
One tray per season
About
The one behind the projector
I read rock and ice for a living for thirty-eight summers and photographed every one of them on the same film. Now the slides are scanned, the projector lives in the front room, and anyone who sits down gets a show.
- Glacial geology
- Kodachrome 64
- Slide nights
- Battery Point, Hobart
- Seasons
- 38, from Svalbard in 1982 to Assynt in 2019
- Slides
- 11,140, scanned since the winter of 2020
- Projector
- Kodak Carousel 760, bought secondhand in 1979
- Tea
- Strong, no sugar, at the interval
Bookings
Three ways to see the slides
Talks Forty minutes and one tray of eighty slides, for libraries and schools. From $250 Prints Any slide on the wall, scanned at 4000 dpi, printed on cotton rag. From $90 Slide nights First Friday of the month, my front room, eight chairs, tea. Free, book a chair
Recent talks for the State Library of Tasmania, the Hobart Walking Club and two primary schools.
Contact
Write to me
For a talk, a print, or a chair at the next slide night.
Thank you - your note landed on the kitchen table. I reply to everything within a week, sooner if the kettle is on.