Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Selected for Photo of the Day on AMPt
The AMPt (the Advanced Mobile Photography team) selected my photo, Standing the Tests of Time, for Photo of the Day last week and featured it on their home page. I am honored! Here’s a screenshot of the week’s Photos of the Day as posted on Instagram. So which one is it? It’s in the upper right corner in…
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2013 in Review
Thank you for reading my blog this year. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would…
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The Beauty of Different
A belated Merry Christmas to you! I hope it was everything you hoped for and more. I found a wonderful quote in one of my gifts, The Beauty of Different: Observations of a Confident Misfit, a rich book by Karen Walrond, filled with macro photographs of people. Karen is a multi-talented wife, mother, lawyer, photographer and speaker, originally…
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Full Life in the Emptiest of Places
Sometimes you shoot an image and you work on it and you bring it to some wordless place of perfection and though you know, just know in your bones, that there’s a message in that image, just like a message in a bottle, you can’t find the words…..until some time later. In my case, over…
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Self-Compassion
I hardly know where to begin. I discovered the self-compassion work of Dr. Kristin Neff through Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection e-course. Dr. Neff has a really long title. She’s an Associate Professor in Human Development and Culture in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Whew. Dr. Neff spoke at TEDx Manitoba…
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A Zentangled Journey
Checking out the social streams of my amazing classmates in Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection 6-week e-course, I found some impressive drawings by @artbreaking on Instagram. A little later that same day, lingering at Michael’s a nudge too long, Kass Hall’s book Zentangle Untangled leaped out at me from the rack. It was similar to @artbreaking’s…
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Imperfect and Enough with Brené Brown and Oprah
I’ve been participating in Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection Oprah’s Lifeskills Class over the last 2 weeks. If you don’t already know who she is, check out her TED talk about Daring Greatly (with over 11 million views.) One of the exercises in the first week, Charting the Wholehearted Journey, was to change our focus…
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Selected for Painterly Mobile Art Monday
Southern California Art of Mob blogger Geri Centonze selected my image below for Painterly Mobile Art Monday #15. Thank you Geri! I edited this image once and went back to it some months after the US Post Office financial woes made these mail boxes seem like certain future antiques. My intent was to push this image…
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Explored on Flickr
Out of the 1.42 million photos uploaded a day on average to Flickr, the “Explore” algorithm along with some human intervention, pick 500 images to highlight as the most interesting. This last week, the Explored process chose one of mine! I was beside myself with excitement and gratitude. You can see the image below or…
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Photo Essay with Diptic
Photo essays are usually a series of pictures related by a theme or a place or a subject. I’ve experimented with collapsing the series into a collage. There are many tools that you can use for this. Fuzel Pro, Frametastic and Diptic are all great for this. For my purposes, I’ve used Diptic for a…
