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.

Month: August 2014

  • Midway on life’s journey I found myself in a dark wood

    This was taken with a Canon EOS Elan ii and Fomapan 100 film (I think. It might have been Fomapan 400). I am taking a Coursera class on literature and online video games and am really enjoying it. I was a literature major in college and at the time was addicted to video games. It…

  • Find the others

    “Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider,…

  • I’ll do Me. You do you.

  • Blue (a cyanotype tutorial from a cyanotype newbie)

    I spent some time last Monday doing more cyanotypes. I made them 4×6 so I could use them as postcards for the postcard swap. I am really enjoying this printing process. I am learning all kinds of things about printing in general, and specifically contact printing (which I am finding myself interested in). In case…