“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness — just the pure air to breathe and the […]
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When I was in high school, my specialty in the kitchen was chocolate chip bar cookies. A few times per month, I’d come home to the empty house, after school, and whip up a batch of chocolatey goodness. I’ve cut back on the frequency of cookie prep, but I’ve found that I have at least
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Film scan day continues to be one of my favorites! Shot on Mamiya RB67 ProSD | Portra 400 rated at 320 and metered for 0 in the shadows | Develop and Scan by The Find Lab Pin It
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When living near a Space Museum, of course you must take a weekend trip to visit it. The kids were thrilled to explore all of the hands-on exhibits at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Museum and it was stunning, to all of us, just how large the Saturn rockets were. One child inquired if it
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Hanging in there with the self portrait project over on Instagram, #portraitsofme! In February, I included kids in my weekly shots a few times, which can by tricky (securing cooperation!) but always results in images that I treasure. These boys seem to grow and change overnight. I want to remember how they feel, settled into
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When we travel, sometimes the destinations are for all of us, and sometimes they are for one person, or interest group ;), in particular. Honestly, I wasn’t overly excited at the idea of visiting a museum filled with motorcycles, but everyone else was and as long as were were traveling out of our current hometown,
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“I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet Pin It
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Multi day, fly away on a jet plane trips are wonderful. For me, they’re almost essential. However, it isn’t practical to travel abroad often, or take week long trips away from home. Thankfully, it is more than possible to live as a perpetual tourist in your own home town, reaping the benefits of noticing the
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A few months ago we took the boys to the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum with friends. It turned out that we were there during the off-season for train rides, but the boys really couldn’t have cared much less. A whole rail yard full of stationary, life-size train cars to look at and climb on?
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Stay in a private residence when traveling with kids. Hotel living can be simple. There is an ease to knowing that hotel management is available 24 hours a day. However, staying in a private residence is my favorite form of accommodation when traveling with kids. When you rent an apartment or home, you generally have
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Creamy, grainy and soft with just a hint of sharpness. It’s an interesting combination. I think I prefer Ilford Delta 3200 on medium format. The grain is prettier, and smoother in the bokeh. In other news, I decided my exposure had improved enough that I had earned my autofocus 35mm. The Nikon F100 arrived yesterday,
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First thing in the morning, after breakfast, school drop off, kitchen clean up and cup of coffee brewing, my little guy and I settle in upstairs in the combined office and play space to get to work. He toddles (or runs at the speed of light, these days) around, making messes, asking questions and being
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1- Be kind to your back. Use a backpack, if possible. While out shooting travel photography it really isn’t the time to carry a cute bag. You’re on your feet all day, the beds you sleep on at night probably aren’t all that restorative and situations are perfect for creating back, neck and shoulder pain if you
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My husband says that I am horrible about leaving the last little bits of food in containers, instead of using them up or just getting rid of the nearly empty boxes and jugs. The validity of that statement is debatable. What is not up for debate, though, is my commitment to using up film. Take
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Take a look at your image archive. Go ahead. Click over and count up how many images you are in, in the past month’s folder. If you’re like most photographers, or more broadly- most women, I’d venture, the number of images that feature you is quite small. But, you are important, too! Your children will want
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Travel. It’s one of those activities that exhausts me from beginning to end, and I question my sanity while planning, traveling and recovering, but for me, a life lived within a radius of a few hundred miles would feel incomplete. Experiences that my family have had traveling have given us a new appreciation for the
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Holy cow. Grain. I opened up these scans, quickly flipped through them, and immediately closed up the folder. It didn’t help that on that day, we had warning of a huge thunderstorm that was supposed to produce 70+ mph wind, golf ball size hail and possible strong tornadoes. All 3 of the boys had just
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I always seem to forget how tedious it feels to come up with a new subject, or a new way to look at the same subject, when I am committed to shooting daily. I could take a portrait of a child, each day, and call it good, but the point of daily shooting is to
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The milky, creamy white tones and pretty, muted greens of this flower arrangement had me wishing it might live forever. Flowers and directional light work wonderfully together. The textures and shapes of the flowers are highlighted by the shadows left behind in the obstruction of light, while the light and shadow play seems to animate the
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Beauty noun The quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). (dictionary.com) What jumps out at you when you
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Repeat after me. Once again. Thou shalt not underexpose film. Also, do not shoot wide open if you are having trouble seeing focus through a dim viewfinder. There are your 2 cents worth of photography tips for the day. ;) I struggle a bit with whether or not I should be posting images that make
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Over Christmas break my brother and I set a photography date. He has just recently (within the past 7 months) started shooting on manual mode and I’m so impressed with his photography. Apparently, I’m thoroughly accustomed to warmer climates and didn’t even consider the need to pack extra layers for sunset, on top of a hill
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There is a lot of love floating around in February. As you find yourself drowning in Valentines and candy hearts, here are a few tips for capturing love between people, that are useful all throughout the year. Capturing Love: Siblings Shared Activities: Sometimes, during the day to day, it can be a little difficult to see
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Overexposure. Film likes it. A lot. Like, A LOT. If I had been shooting this situation on digital I would have been slightly underexposing to preserve all those white tones. But I knew that film wants light, so I metered once, set an exposure that felt much.too.bright. and shot. When the scans came back, I
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