More slides

My slide projector isn't working - it has a burned out bulb - but John left his projector here. It does not use a carousel, it just loads one slide at a time. That's okay. I'm projecting a slide on to the acreen and then using my cell phone camera to take a picture of the projected image. It isn't an ideal way to make a copy - especially since I'm doing it right at the moment in the daytime - so the projected image is not very bright and copying it has altered the tint. I'll try again tonight when it is dark. But for now, it does produce an acceptable image. When we went to Switzerland in 1984 - 40 years ago this month - we visited John Nissen and Mary Anderson in Geneva. While there, we saw some sights in Geneva. One of those sights ia called the "Reformation Wall," an impressive granite (marble?) wall with large inscriptions, statues and bas reliefs commemorating the leaders of the 16th Century Protestant Reformation who lived and worked in Geneva. The wall is 100 meters long, on the grounds of the University of Geneva, and was inaugerated in 1909, commemorating the 400th anniverary of Calvin's birth in 1509. The outstanding feature of that wall is a cluster of four statues of the most prominent figures of that time: John Calvin, William Farel, Theodore Beza and John Knox. John Calvin is by far the most widely known of the four today, is regarded as the founder of what is called the Reformed wing of the Reformation, and is on a level with Martin Luther in importance. The Reformed wing includes Presbyterians, Congregationalists and the Dutch Reformed Church. William Farel was a Frenchman closely associated with Calvin, but not so well-known today. John Knox is fairly widely known (helped by the fact that a book publisher is named for him), and was particularly important in forming the Scottish Presbyterian Church. Theodore Beza succeeded Calvin as leader of the Genevan Church. Church leaders from the British Isles and all over Europe came to Geneva to be inspired and trained by these men. Geneva became "the Protestant Rome." The church in which I have membership and ministerial standing, the United Church of Christ (UCC) is in the Reformed tradition and Shirley grew up in a Dutch Reformed Church on Staten Island, NY (Brighton Heights Reformed Church). So these were our roots, religiously.

My slide of the four statues.

Another view of the four from a photo online.

A wider view of the wall. *************

Aha! I just experimented with another way to make a copy of a slide! Far superior! I put a piece of blank paper on top of my desk lamp, put a slide on the paper and took a picture of the slide with my cell phone. Cropped the picture and this is what I got:

Sharper and truer color!

This is the set up. The slide I used is one from a trip on a gondola out of Chamonix, France up to L'Aiguille du Midi, "The Needle at Midday," at over 12,000 feet just below the summit of Mt. Blanc. Spectacular trip! More on that tomorrow!