A few years ago I wrote a short article called No Angry Adoptees Here for an online adoption publication. I took a lot of flack for that article and it ended up being one of the most commented upon pieces in the publication. I wrote from the perspective of an adoptee choosing to follow a path…
Month: January 2016
Lather Up!
About a hundred years ago (well, perhaps more like thirty-five or so) I decided I wanted to learn how to make soap from scratch. As with most things I wanted to learn about back then I checked out books from the library, studied, and set out a plan. My first step was to render fat….
Glass. Light. White. Airy.
Glass, light, shades of white, and airy. That was the photography prompt I chose to work on one day last week. It seemed natural that I would grab a few mason jars to use for the glass part of the prompt. It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a love affair with mason…
A Rocking Chair
Yesterday I continued my effort to catch up on my Be Still – Fifty Two assignments. This one called for using a simple subject–like a chair, back lighting, and shooting from different perspectives. I knew immediately what I was going to use for my subject. It’s just taken me a while to get back to…
Be Still Vignette
I’m so very far behind on the assignments for the Be Still – Fifty Two class but I’m determined to catch up. Today, I had some time to practice and I played around with different things for one of the assignments. This one called for us to shoot a dark and moody vignette and to…