We went to the grocery store on International Women's Day or perhaps it was the day after. As usual, I sent a girl and Sam down the block to the bakery to buy our weekly loaves. This gives those two a chance to use some Turkish, pay with Turkish money and saves us a stop after we've finished in the grocery store. That particular day, it was Johanna and Sam who headed to the bakery.
Nicole and Cam and I went into Kipa. Cam went one way to fill his cart with water bottles while Nicole and I went together down the refrigerator aisle. We were separated by a few feet when one of the young men who works at the store came to me with three carnations in his hand. He gave me one and then headed in Nicole's direction. I watched him make the presentation and then head towards where Cam was shopping.
How sweet! I thought, the store is giving all the ladies flowers to celebrate International Women's Day. However, when we got to the cash register I noticed that none of the other ladies in the store had carnations ... only Nicole and I.
The young man in the meantime had hidden himself away, so Johanna didn't get a flower when she and Sam returned from the bakery (I gave her mine). I chuckled all the way to the car where I let Cam and the kids in on the secret.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Yousef Karsh
So, I've been researching artists from the last couple of centuries as part of a social studies unit.
Today's artist was Turkish born Armenian Yousef Karsh who became a Canadian in the early 1900s.
He was born in Mardin Turkey, but because of the intense persecution of Armenians in that era his family moved to Syria. Two years later he was sent to Ottawa Canada to live with an uncle. He apprenticed to a portrait photographer in Boston and went on to photograph many famous people in images we still use today.
This picture of Winston Churchill is one of the most widely used photographs ever taken.
It was taken directly after Karsh plucked Churchill's cigar from his mouth and walked back to his camera. It should be noted that after this photograph was taken, Churchill said that Karsh could take another picture. In this second image, Churchill is smiling.
A Self Portrait
Eleanor Roosevelt
Grace Kelly posed for Karsh shortly after her engagement to the prince of Monaco.
Emeric (Jimmy) Saska, part of a series of photos taken in the Ford Company of Canada
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