Category: Photography
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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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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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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…
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Newspace Now 2013 Members’ Salon
The Newspace Now 2013 Member’s Salon opened last weekend featuring the work of 84 member photographers. It was for this show that I took pains to print, matte and frame a photo for the first time in 8 years. All the competitions I had participated in displayed the artwork digitally. It was great to stand next to…
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Printing Large
Grinning, I said, “I’m looking for a long-term relationship….” My husband raised an eyebrow. “Oh?” with that upward inflection on the “h” that said, “This better be good.” “…with a printer.” I finished. Used to my love of photography, he chuckled. In the days of fixer I printed my images in the darkroom. When I…
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8 Years
It had been 8 years. I gripped the straight cutter and pulled the sharp blade hard toward me along the metal edge and through the creamy thickness of the 4-ply matte board. 8 years. I penciled the math for the cut-out like pouring a glass of water. 12″ is 11 16/16″ less 7 12/16″ equals…
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Experiments in Mobile Photography
My husband and I went to Ridge Vineyards last weekend to celebrate his birthday and enjoy the last days of summer. We found an open picnic table under an umbrella on top of the mountain and from this vantage point we looked over all the San Francisco Bay area. It was a wonderful mini-vacation. A…
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Insights from Mobile Photography on the Run
Lately, the path is not so clear. But the beauty that surrounds me everyday is and I am grateful to see much of that while out running. Running gives me the chance to know my body’s mind and sometimes the pictures I take on a run give me insights later on. In retrospect, this week’s…
