Jul 5, 2012 | things photographers say...
Curate. The word seems to be popping up everywhere I turn these days. The idea is powerful: someone finds the good stuff and shares it with others who have an interest. After all the human brain is more powerful than any Google algorithm and can find things of value...
Jul 5, 2012 | photography
Did you have a nice Fourth? We had one of the most relaxing ones ever. We did absolutely nothing. I made hotdogs for lunch and grilled hamburgers for dinner. Easy peasey. Later in the evening my husband took the three little ones out to watch the fireworks. The bigger...
Jul 4, 2012 | just everyday
We lost our power late Friday night. I went to sleep confident that it would be back on in the morning — sure those were some powerful gust of wind knocking around those trees in our backyard but, c’mon, the storm was over in about 30 minutes. Morning...
Jun 29, 2012 | photography
Sometimes, when I look through the lens of my camera, I find myself catching my breath. Startled, as reality is transformed into something more. How could the mundane object in from of me suddenly become this swirl of light and color and motion? That moment of awe and...
Jun 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
(click on picture for full screen) I’m dating myself but the Talking Heads song was rolling in my mind the entire time I read the assignment to create a timeline of our creative journey to this point. There is so much more that lead me to this point but some...
Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
“The proper use of imagination is to give beauty to the world…the gift of imagination is used to cast over the commonplace workaday world a veil of beauty and make it throb with our esthetic enjoyment.” — Lin yu-T’ang I agree —...
Jun 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Lucky break! Over the weekend I picked up a used SB-800 for about $240. I’ve been keeping my eye open for one for awhile now — close to two years since I got my smaller SB-600 and read Joe McNally’s book and began to long for a second flash. Now I...
Jun 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last Friday we took our first adventure trip of the summer. We went to the botanical garden a mile our so from our house. It only took us five years to make our first trip but since then we go several times every summer. They just completed the Korean bell garden and...
Jun 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Well, look at that! I found something on Pinterest and I made it! I think this may be a first! On another note, we now have enough children to spell out...
