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Photo tip Friday: 5 easy ways to create a dynamic picture
Want to create a more satisfying, interesting image for you and others to enjoy? Want photos that make all eyes STOP (in the name of love) and linger and look and look and have people falling into? Do...
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Simple Joy week 4: bringing back the sexy
Week 4. Joyful surrender. Joyful surrender. Sounds like a chocolate bar. Or a lingerie line. Joyful surrender. Something tempting, seductive and sexy. Not at all where I’m going with this post, this...
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Photo Tip Friday: capturing your child’s personality
In last week’s Photo Tip Friday we discussed five ways to create a more dynamic picture. Number five on that list said to “allow the feeling (of the subject) to shine through.” Admittedly, that’s one...
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Simple Joy week 5: easy, breezy, beautiful
Ever since I got a grip on my feelings toward this winter, life has been just a tad sweeter. I’m taking the days as they come. It’s really working out. The weather. My carousel of feelings. My kids. My...
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Photo Tip Friday: 3 common mistakes and how to avoid them
*************************** MISTAKE NUMBER ONE. Where’s the focus? Now, I realize there is a such thing as keeping your image–or parts of it–deliberately out of focus. But what if nothing is in focus...
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A baby, a birth, some butter
Week 6. Dreamy Joy. I had a dream. Earlier last week. In which I gave birth to Cupcake. Mitchell and I were out driving around the Cherokee Park loop. Swirling around the park like a pen would sketch a...
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Photo Tip Friday: the difference between snapshots and portraits
Acquaintances. Our friends. Our extended family members. Significant others. Our own children. Chances are good that a lot of the time we’re taking pictures, people are in them. It’s easy then to...
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simple joy week 7: puddles welcome here
Week 7. Unexpected Joy. As we emerged from the park and headed up Eastern Parkway I watched on the periphery as man on a mountain bike intentionally veered into a puddle. He didn’t just veer into it...
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simple joy week 8: a walrus and her roots
Week 8. Sturdy Joy. Dang girl. You been lifting? Mitchell had meant to stop me as I walked past him. He’d put his hand around my arm in passing. But it stayed. And now he was holding onto my bicep. I...
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Photo Tip Friday: Embracing Low Light
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but. Here it is again because I kind of think about it all the time. We’re building a new house. Which means that right now we’re living in a rental house. It’s...
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