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Videocasts I {heart}

Videocasts I {heart}

What are you watching on YouTube? I subscribe to quite a few channels but these three, well, I get a thrill up my leg when I get a notification that a new episode is out. 1. The Art of Photography — Ted Forbes is awesome! Always educational, from historical film...
Photo as Poem

Photo as Poem

I have spent some time over the past year or so, considering how to make my photos tell better stories. I’ve thought about character, conflict, metaphor and setting, among other things, but listening to Ibarionex Perello interview David DuChemin on the Candid...
Who Am I, Anyway?

Who Am I, Anyway?

Four years ago I wrote my first real post on Living in a Still Life. I used the daybook format as a kind of introduction. Now, 514 posts later, I feel like I need to re-introduce myself. Life changes and I’m all over the place, a fact clearly reflected on this...
Imperfections?

Imperfections?

If wabi-sabi is the the beauty of imperfection than my house would be the picture in the dictionary entry! But I can’t really take a picture of the four-year-old size “dent” in the drywall, or the dog-scratched doors, or the monster-truck pitted...
Approaching Solstice

Approaching Solstice

We’ve lived in this house for ten years. I’ve been avidly (or should I say obsessively) walking around with a camera for six of those years. You would think that I would know the light in every nook and cranny in every season and yet I still find...