American University -- Event: Drawing Inspiration with Cartoonist Jim Toomey:
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Description of Pictures: Drawing Inspiration with Cartoonist Jim Toomey
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, who has been drawing the newspaper comic strip "Sherman's Lagoon" for almost two decades, uses live drawing to demonstrate how he weaves an environmental message into his work, and how he has taken what he has learned in "old media" and applied it to creating short films and animations for an online audience.
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TOOMEY_170926_005.JPG: Jim Toomey and Mike Jenkins
TOOMEY_170926_015.JPG: Sharon Metcalf and Chris Palmer
TOOMEY_170926_544.JPG: (Left to right) Sara Duke, Mike Jenkins, Mike Rhode
TOOMEY_170926_554.JPG: Chris Palmer and Jim Toomey
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2013_DC_Student_130320: Env Film Festival (2013) -- Environmental Student Short Film Festival (w/Chris Palmer) @ American University (90 photos from 2013)
2007_DC_ESSFF_070321: Env Film Festival (2007) -- Environmental Student Short Film Festival (w/Chris Palmer and Philippe Cousteau) @ American University (71 photos from 2007)
2017_DC_Changing_Land_171101: American University -- Event: Changing Political Landscape: 2016 and Beyond (w/Joshua Green and Jonathan Allen) (69 photos from 2017)
2011_DC_Nichols_110216: American University -- Event: 3rd Annual Eisenhower Symposium w/David Nichols (68 photos from 2011)
2018_DC_Last_AnimalsR_180315 Env Film Festival (2018) -- "The Last Animals" -- Receptions and Preparation @ Natl Geographic Society
2018_DC_Last_Animals_180315 Env Film Festival (2018) -- "The Last Animals" -- Program @ Natl Geographic Society
2016_DC_Let_GoR_160326 Env Film Festival (2016) -- "How to Let Go of the World" -- Closing Reception @ Carnegie Inst
2016_DC_Let_Go_160326 Env Film Festival (2016) -- "How to Let Go of the World" -- Award and Q+A w/Josh Fox, Tim DeChristopher, Aria Doe and Lennox Yearwood @ Carnegie Inst
2015_DC_ExtinctionR_150329 Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Racing Extinction" -- Closing Reception @ Carnegie Inst
2013_DC_Student_130320 Env Film Festival (2013) -- Environmental Student Short Film Festival (w/Chris Palmer) @ American University
2007_DC_ESSFF_070321 Env Film Festival (2007) -- Environmental Student Short Film Festival (w/Chris Palmer and Philippe Cousteau) @ American University
2011_DC_Toomey_110910 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Jim Toomey (Cartoonists Remember 9/11)
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.