The Continuing Series of Celebrities & Background Changes...and Other Comments, As Always.

When changing the backgrounds I attempted to pick backgrounds that the person might have been to, or at least might enjoy visiting...although I'm most likely wrong.  The backgrounds, though, do put more emphasis on the subject.  

The following photo of pianist Van Cliburn was shot in the Green Room by the concert hall at college.  Normally, when shooting Black & White films, I processed the films with chemistry I mixed.  However, after shooting the photos of Van Cliburn it was late, so I used chemistry that someone else had mixed.  The results were disastrous.  After years of having a terrible B&W image, digital scanning and software came to the rescue.  It's still not the best it could have been but it's not bad.  I tried to get someone else to photograph Van Cliburn because I didn't care for classical piano but could not find anyone, so I went to the concert...and he was so amazing that I couldn't leave.  I met him during the intermission and it was like meeting an old friend.  Anyway, here is the one photo I have with hopefully a proper background added.

Because I often visited Cathy Moriarty, I have more photos of her than any other celebrity.  She was wonderful, beautiful, and easy to photograph.  Here are several more photos of her, all shot on the postponed Oscar night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and all with this background wallpaper.  The nice thing is that once the subject is isolated from the original background, each background change takes only a minute or two.

Not every photo needs to have the background changed.  The ones below of Cathy were exactly as shot.  Unfortunately, before scanning them, the images had deteriorated over time, so still had to process to repair that.

And now for the commentary part of this blog post.  It seems that every time I get ready to publish a post, I find an article or comment elsewhere that summarizes what I'm about to say...and says it better or adds to it.  This is one such comment by Dr. Sabine Hazan, M.D.  As with all my posts, I strongly recommend TheHighwire.com/watch.  

I've been studying health, nutrition, and supplements for 47 years.  Ten years ago I started studying vakses.  I've owned and worked in retail health food stores and have gotten feedback from over 30,000 people.  Along the way, I received an MS degree in Holistic Nutrition and took all the courses for the PhD degree.  One thing I learned is that everyone has different body chemistry,  so if you take a supplement that helps you, that doesn't mean it will help me.  If you get a vaks and have no side effects, that doesn't mean it won't kill someone else.  Some drugs will be almost harmless to some and fatal to others.  So when I hear someone say, "I got the shot and I'm fine (which may or may not be true as it may have caused undetectable long-term damage) so you should get it, too," that may be a dangerous thing to assume.  

I've learned a lot in the past 3 1/2 years.  I've learned that health agencies (CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAID, etc.) lie incessantly, as well as drug companies and media (the real misinformers).  Based on what I've been observing, more people are realizing this.  I hope you are one of them.  As I always say, your health and your life may depend on it.

The only way to find the truth is to research everything, whether it's politics, "global warming," health, or everything else in the news.  Especially when it's coming from the Rachel Maddows of the world or the so-called experts on the news.