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Seeing Aerially

by Published: Sep 30, 2009

The his­tor­i­cal aer­ial photo dis­play was shown in the Rankin Art Gallery for a month

Aerial pho­tos are always cool to look at, but look­ing at a school’s trans­for­ma­tion over decades is even better.

Not only were there aer­ial pho­tos of the Ferris cam­pus, but also old, antique machines not used any­where any­more, and an exam­ple would be an old camera.

The dis­play was very cool and inter­est­ing because not did it only show us Ferris’ trans­for­ma­tion over years and years, but the pho­tog­ra­pher and art direc­tor cre­ated an “I Spy” theme along with it.

Next to every pic­ture was a lit­tle box that asked us if we can find cer­tain build­ings and asked where to find the loca­tion future build­ings would be, which are around now.

I liked the way they did that because it kept view­ers inter­ested in the pic­tures and actu­ally made us look at the pic­tures for longer peri­ods of time.

I never knew what Ferris looked like with­out the Quad, with­out FLITE being as big as it is now, and with­out some halls that are here today.

The exhibit showed how both Big Rapids and Ferris changed dras­ti­cally because of the college’s popularity.

As Ferris recently cel­e­brated its 125th anniver­sary or birth­day, the pho­tos are more mem­o­rable then ever.

It’s always good to see how far a school has come and how far it may go in the future.