Reflective Tuesday: Growth

This quote is from a book I'm reading called, "The Shack." It has a quote to go along with each chapter.

Growth means change and
change involves risk, stepping
from the known to the unknown.

-Author Unknown

Flashback Friday: Beach Sunset

Here is another one taken with the Canon A80 back in 2005. It seems that everyone with a camera and a shutter finger feels the urge to photograph sunsets. Seriously, Americans alone must spend tens of thousands of clicks every clear night. Yet most of us are disappointed the first time we try. The sun is much, much, much, much, much, much, much brighter than everything surrounding it. It throws off the meter of the camera and everything else is severely underexposed. When adjustments are made, everything else may be exposed correctly, but a large, boring circle dominates and everything else loses detail. One day I realized that perhaps it's typically not in my best interest to include the sun in the frame when photographing sunsets. (As a good general rule, it's best not to include the main light source in the frame.)

This was my first photo to be published in a magazine: Milford Living.

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Literary Thursday: Hermit the Peanut

I hesitated while trying to decide whether to include my past writings on the blog. They don't have much to do with photography directly. Yet I believe that photographs and pieces of writing share a similarity in that while they aren't typically created in order to describe something about the creator, they often do.

Let's start at the beginning and then jump around a bit. This first one I wrote back in grade school:


Hermit the Peanut

Hermit the peanut
Lived in my pocket
We were the best of friends
Then one day I sat down
CRUNCH!!!

Link-me-up Wednesday: Sand Drawing

I can't remember who sent every valuable link to me, but this week's comes from Josh, one of the best grooms of all time:

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