Featured in Pittsburgh Magazine, February 2007!

Wow, the collection was featured in Pittsburgh Magazine in February 2007!  I thought you might like to read the article, but wanted to set it up properly first.  For starters, I should thank a few people for their hard work. 

The writer was Jon Wander -- great all around guy and fine writer.  Jon and I spent a couple of hours going through the collection, talking about each piece and so many other details of Joplin's life.  He really invests a considerable amount of time into his work.  Jon does freelance writing in Pittsburgh, often for Pittsburgh Magazine.  He's at JonWndr [at] aol.com. 

The pictures were taken by Pittsburgh-area pro photographer, Judy Browne. Judy made two trips to the house for this shoot -- once to do tests shots, and once more for the shoot itself.  She stood on chairs, rearranged things, adjusted all sorts of settings on her super high-tech pro camera gear, etc.  Amazingly, she was even skilled enough to capture my image without ruining the camera forever, so she deserves much praise. Judy can be reached at:  jmbrowne101 [at] yahoo.com.

Finally, the staff at WQED did all sorts of great stuff.  They had a design team do the layout (though I didn't meet any of these people), and even had a fact-checker call me.  So, it's a first-class organization. If they put this much work into just 2 pages of the magazine, just imagine all the work they all do each and every month.

Okay, so that ought to cover everyone.  Here's the article.  Right-click on that link and select "Save As..." to save it to your hard drive. It's about 11 Megs (saved in high res).

Best regards,

-Jim Dee
SothebyDee@Yahoo.com