Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: creativity

  • On fighting the monkey

    On fighting the monkey

    “I can’t tell you how happy I am to have taken up drawing again. I’ve been thinking of it, but I always considered the thing impossible and beyond my reach.” – Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother. I saw this quote in a book the other day and found it so profoundly…

  • Six word Saturday 

    Six word Saturday 

    Muse, where are you? Come back!

  • Perspective

    We went hiking with our pinhole cameras up at the Salmon River on Memorial Day weekend and the trail was a little more crowded than usual, thus, more people curious about the cameras we were using. Someone had left a baby’s bright pink shoe sitting on a rock at the trailhead and I instinctively decided…

  • Untitled post 20778

    “The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.” James shared a really great article with me in the comments of my post from yesterday.  It has me thinking about my list. The idea from the article is to limit yourself to 5  goals. Anything else is a waste…

  • “Random Song Lyric Photo Title” playlist

    One of the things I am trying to think about when I make a photo is the storytelling element. I think the title is one of the very important elements in the storytelling that goes on in photography. The viewer doesn’t have much else to go on, there is the title and then there is the…