“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
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Last night, as the lunar eclipse show began, I sat working at my computer. I had a list of reasons why I was not planning to photograph the eclipse. These reasons included:
But…
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
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This past weekend, my family and I finally went on a ski weekend that we have tried unsuccessfully for one reason or another to take for the past three years. This year, it finally worked out. We packed the car Friday, after work, and headed to Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia.
This trip was especially important to me since
“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
-David Alan Harvey
New Year’s Eve 2018 and New Year’s Day 2019 were special for me for a couple of reasons. First of all, I got to spend quality time with my husband, Randy. Secondly, I had somewhat of a personal breakthrough with my photography both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
During my winter break, I saw that there was a holiday lights event before Christmas at Brookgreen Gardens, located in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. By the time I attempted to purchase tickets for the event, all of the evenings that I could have attended were
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.”
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During my winter break, I had the opportunity to explore with my camera. I received a wonderful book, Seeing in Sixes, for Christmas. Seeing in Sixes is a collection of six image projects edited by Brooks Jensen and Maureen Gallagher. I think I had this book in my mind as I spent a day walking through the streets of downtown Charleston.
I have spent many trips photographing in Charleston. This time I was looking for something different to photograph. When I saw the shadow of ironwork cast upon a tree, my series for the day
“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
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Each year at this time, like many of my fellow photographers, I like to take a look back at the work I created during the year. There is a lot that can be learned by taking a look back.
Instagram supplied me with my “top nine” images of 2018. This indicated the nine images that were liked the most by others who viewed my images on Instagram. I found it interesting to see that of the sixteen images that I selected as my personal favorites,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
-Clement Clarke Moore
A tradition that I enjoy each year at Christmastime is a visit to McAdenville, North Carolina. McAdenville is also known as Christmas Town USA. People drive from miles away and wait in very long lines of traffic to view the holiday lights displayed
“I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me every day.”
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Each year, I work to help create two Christmas/Holiday cards. One card is our family Christmas card and the second one is for my husband, Randy’s, real estate business. We work hard each year to try to come up with an idea that will be fun and unique in comparison to
“Creativity takes courage. ”
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The past seven days have been filled with great, anticipated fun. Each day a different word was revealed on Google Plus as interpreted by between 100 and 150 photographers. It always amazes me
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
― Maya Angelou
Several years ago, I began participating in an amazing scavenger hunt on Google Plus. You can read about a previous post I made regarding the scavenger hunt here.
This week, the reveals for the 24th Creativity Never Sleeps Round Scavenger Hunt began. Reveals are highly anticipated by all of the photographers who
