Ahhh… I finally got the joke, while editing for the RIT Reunion.
RITchie the RIT Tiger was given a button with a tiger on it and people told me to take a photo of it… which I did (what great customer service 
Anyway, as I was editing, I noticed that I took many photos of the (human) alumni with buttons showing them in their younger days…
…and it finally hit me, that the button was funny because it was the RIT Tiger in his young college days too.
The ladies from the RIT archive or alumni office that pulled the photos from the yearbook and made buttons must have stumbled onto an old RITchie graphic and made it for him too… hee… he looks a bit down in his college days though, don’t you think?? Maybe he wasn’t the cool athletic-type he is today.
PS- I’m thrilled we have the new RITchie costume (sorry to spoil the magic for anyone, but he’s not real). The old one had such a broken up nose, that I spent hours in Photoshop retouching it in every alumni photo. Now I can relax and enjoy shooting the RITchie antics.
It was an event at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House and Kodak was involved.
What is this box that garnered such attention…
Come back for a hint tomorrow.
I love seeing my old professor Les Stroebel (left in the photo) at the RIT Reunion each year.
Les was one of my profs for ‘Materials & Processes of Photography’ (known as M&P, it was every science rolled into one class… we learned photography down to the atomic level!)
So Les and John Compton did a great job making a tough class interesting and useful and when we had our final class, we created a ‘Les is More’ banner that hung in the class and we all wore similar buttons.
One lesson I have today from that class is that the real, solid basics will never go out of fashion. The same histograms we learned (and honestly thought we’d never use, are part of my everyday life in Photoshop and in-camera, judging exposure… the histogram is the hills and valleys plot of how bright/dark a photo is).
This year Les beat me to the punch, he said:
‘Hi Ken, You looked surprised when I beat you to the punch and took this picture.’
and sent me this photo:
and here’s my photo of him at the same time… OK, Les won…
I’ll get him next year 
