Chris Kern: Essays and Photographs
Essays
A Farewell Message to the Voice of America Staff. Some parting words
Jefferson's Dome at Monticello. The most radical architectural feature of the Virginia home of the third president of the United States
(Not) My Word (After All)! In which I discover I can’t always believe what I read on the Internet—even when I write it myself
The Real First Broadcast of the Voice of America. A belated correction
Reality Check. Ambiguity and ambivalence in digital color photography
Restoring an Icon: The Memphis Belle. The history and meticulous restoration of the iconic World War II American heavy bomber
The Memphis Belle: A 2015 Update. A progress report on the restoration of the iconic military aviation artifact
The ‘Old Woodsfield House.’ Identifying a building from a 100-year-old photograph using Google Maps
The Voice of America: First on the Internet. How the Voice of America became the first broadcasting network in the world to offer continuously-updated news on the public Internet
Weird Processing: The Collision of Computers and Cultures at the Voice of America. The occasionally painful transition to multilingual word-processing from typewriters and handwriting
Photographs
Browser and Slideshow. Photo gallery and downloads
Gallery Alphabetical Index. List of available photographs, by title
Gallery Chronological Index. List of available photographs, by year
C&O Canal National Historical Park (2012-2017)
C&O Canal Index
Prague and Budapest (2014)
Prague and Budapest Index
Santa Fe (2009-2015)
Santa Fe Index
San Miguel de Allende (2017)
San Miguel de Allende Index
Taipei, Tokyo, and Kyoto (2017)
Taipei, Tokyo, and Kyoto Index
Software
Xplage. Convert telemetry from a popular flight simulation program into a “moving map” display in Google Earth