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Thanksgiving

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Thank you, Muses past and present, for your illumination and imagination. Thank you, guest posters, for your contributions and creativity....

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Moving On

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The first time my husband came to America, he funded his flight ticket in part by selling his beloved old...

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What I Learned

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When I received an email in my Flickr inbox asking me if I was interested in a position as a...

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Lifted Up

I had a feeling this post would be a bit difficult to write, but I had no idea how difficult until just now...

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Farewell to the Mortal Muses

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It is with great regret that we have decided to say farewell to Mortal Muses at the end of this...

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Things Change

Photography used to be my entire life. I ran a portrait business, I spent all my free time reading tutorials...

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Adventures in 19th-century photography

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Last month I spent a weekend doing “wet-plate collodion photography” course. As you may have noticed, I enjoy the challenge...

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Africa Hipstamatic

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I’ll be heading back to South Africa for a few weeks to visit family and friends, so I thought I’d...

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Shooting for Imperfection

As photographers the most important thing we learn is how to perfect every element of a photograph. We learn to...

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Roadway

One of my strongest  instincts as a teacher is to help people figure out what it is they want to say...

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A Happy Place

I think we all have one place that makes us unexpectedly happy. For me, that place is the airport. Whenever...

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The Language of Dreams

Top Left: the leaf that looked like a tree, Top Right: double exposure of two paintings Bottom Left: churning, Bottom Right:...

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Let’s Fast Forward to the Year 2100

Evan and I share a compulsion: any time we see old photographs in thrift or antique store, we buy them....

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Chasing Dreams

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When I was in high school I wrote out a bucket list, a list of things to do before I...

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Book review: A Beautiful Anarchy by David duChemin

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For those of you who are familiar with the work of David duChemin it will come as no surprise that...

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Introducing Our Newest Muse, Jenny Wall

It is with great pleasure (and a huge honor that I get to write this introduction) that I announce to...

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Rhythm of a Story

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  Ever since Kirstin posted her app review about Steller, I have been shooting differently.  Despite the fact that I...

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Shameless…With a Few Tips

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I wasn’t going to write this post. Not here. It seemed…so…shameless. Yet, my fellow Muses told me to go for...

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Finishing Things & Junctures

These images are from a roll of expired Kodak 200. A roll of film I shot while wandering aimlessly, trying...

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Through The Viewfinder

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Over the weekend I was digging around in my archives for an image and came across one of my old...

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