Tag: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Dinner at Castagna
After visiting Portland for over 15 years and driving by this vaunted restaurant on Hawthorne, we finally ate at Castagna. Chef Kevin Gibson put Castagna on the map and went on to create amazing restaurants Evoe and Davenport. Justin Woodward, who received the James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef Award in 2013, is the executive chef at Castagna now. At…
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How to Process Feedback
How to process feedback on our work, families, passions or ourselves is such an important topic. Often we cut ourselves off from feedback because it is often a painful experience. At the recent PBWC conference, Sheila Heen, co-author of Difficult Conversations and author of Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (even when it is off-base,…
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Scanning Negatives to Your iPhone
If you want images now on a negative to be available on your iPhone there are a few ways to get there for low volume efforts. I tried an iPics2Go portable scanner for the iPhone 4 and 4S recommended by Dan Burkholder in a recent workshop I attended (and will soon right about). The gizmo is on…
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Thinkering at Hôtel Droog
While you can find the unexpected there, Hôtel Droog also has an exhibition space with some pretty smart art. “Reframing Ambition” by Thomas Lommée & Christiane Högner was the current show. I loved this ever so clear part of their statement: The exhibit was composed of a number of installations. One called Thinkering was an installation of shelves like…
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Happy Easter!
In the wee hours of Easter morning, when I couldn’t sleep, I spent some time on a glowing screen in the dark editing a photo I had grabbed on the day before, the one thing I did for myself in the sea of expectations and lists. At 4:00am I had something I liked. Something that…
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The Unexpected at Hôtel Droog
I found Hôtel Droog (Staalstraat 7b) listed in the “Distinctly Amsterdam” section of the National Geographic book Walking Amsterdam: The Best of the City. The hotel part is a one-bedroom attic apartment on the top floor. The Droog part is a design emporium, designed interior, exhibition space, and café. The interiors turn your expectations upside…
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Breutiful Calero Reservoir Trail Run 2014
Breutiful. Yes, spell check, exactly that. The Calero Reservoir Trail Run put on by West Coast Trail Runs was breutiful. The reservoir is nestled in the land of barns and bales in a South San Jose valley. Next to the valley are some impressive mountains. Not the Swiss Alps but still, enough to be breutiful…
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Flying Away
A fellow Instagrammer, @randommarcus or Marcus Carlberg, let me know what app he used to shoot one striking photo in his stream. It was Fotor HDR. I tried it out this week on a flight. Here’s the color image as shot but cropped square using the rule of thirds to place the wing tip: There are…
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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…
