What a Life!

I’ve decided…this is the photo that is going out with my Christmas letter. [Yes, Christmas letter – I’m so late getting it out that a card would only be up for two days anyway and if the people I’m sending them to are anything like my parents, the card and letter may be thrown away […]

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I have a friend who I knew shared my love of photography. I also knew she had purchased a professional muslin backdrop for taking pictures. What I didn’t know is that she’s developed her skills to the point where she wants to start her own portrait photography business on the side. We were over at […]

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My headache is back. I think it’s just the insanity of it all. I feel like a cat chasing my tail. Seriously. On Monday, I started knitting a pair of the Broad Street Mittens I mentioned yesterday. I worked on them here and there, and at the end of the day, the only thing I […]

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One of the justifications I came up with for purchasing a better camera was so I would never again have to suffer the horrors of having to take my children to JCPenny to be photographed this time of year. I took them to JCPenny because for about $20 I could get two 8x10s, a couple […]

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Generally I’m not one for photography assignments, but this one actually sounds like fun. The America at Home photo project is going on this week and has daily assignments from taking pictures of your family having dinner to capturing images of the early morning rush to get out the door. I may not get anything […]

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I just love that picture! How did I take it? I used a piece of white posterboard, laid it on my bed, and arranged my knitting on top of it. For specific camera settings (aperature, ISO, shutter speed), click on the picture and then look at the exif data in flickr. I shot the picture […]

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