One of the things that I love about photography is that I keep learning new things. This means that I can go back to images I made in the past and re-edit them in new ways to express my vision of how I feel the image should look. This week Read more…
A photographer friend and I are working through a list of challenges from a Popular Photography article. Our current challenge is “The Golden Ratio.” Design Ideas — The Golden Ratio Whenever I start one of these challenges with her, the first thing I do is to look up the term Read more…
Make a Joyful Noise! When I sat down to paint today I felt like making a joyful noise. This is my joyful noise. Using ideas from the book Paint Yourself Calm: Colourful, Creative Mindfulness Through Watercolour by Jean Haines, I totally let go of needing to make my painting look like Read more…
I am living a very ordinary life these days. That doesn’t mean it’s an unhappy life. In fact, my ordinary life is quite nice and I am very content with it. It’s late January and the arctic days that make Minnesota a challenging place to live in the winter have Read more…
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am neither patient nor persistent. But life has a way of giving me lessons in the things I need to learn. And both of these traits are valuable to have. Patient and Persistent My body is teaching me to be patient and Read more…