“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
“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”
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After leaving the Dorothea Lange exhibit and saying goodbye to my friends who experienced it with me, I drove to Old Salem Museum and Gardens. Old Salem was within five miles of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art where I had seen the exhibit. It just made sense to go to Old Salem before starting my two-hour drive back home.
I love the quote above by Dorothea. Although I thoroughly enjoy every minute I spend with friends, I find that I can only truly
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
-Dorothea Lange
I had been looking forward to visiting the Dorothea Lange exhibit, America, for some time now. Realizing that I had a weekend free of travel plans, I reached out to some friends to see if they would be interested in joining me to go to the exhibit in Winston-Salem, NC. The exhibit will be at the
“As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.”
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Whenever I visit Gibbs Gardens, located in Ballground, Georgia, I make it a point to also visit
“If you can find a way to add some adventure to a mundane daily commute, I suggest you do that. Life is too short, my friends.”
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At least an hour of each of my working days is spent commuting. If I am traveling at a time when there isn’t heavy traffic, I can drive from my home in South Carolina to my school in
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
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Children anticipate each holiday. Many of our school activities are planned around holidays in first grade.
In the fall, children always anticipate
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
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Gibbs Garden, located in Ball Ground, Georgia, has become a must visit location for me two times each year. I first visit Gibbs Garden in March for the daffodil bloom to see millions of daffodils cascading throughout the garden. For the past three years, I also have been visiting the garden
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
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My first school composite, created as a part of my 900 Days of School project, began
