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: January 2015

  • Tiny Darkroom

    I made a short video to show you how I have turned my small, under-the-stairs bathroom into the tiniest of darkrooms. I wanted to show you this because I often hear people say that they don’t have space for a darkroom. I think that even if you have a very small space you can make…

  • Couple looking up

    I have found myself with a small collection of found negatives. I scanned them and thought it would be fun to share them on my blog. here is one my friend Lacey sent me. It is a large format negative. In the note she says that it is a 1950s San Francisco negative by Dick…

  • Women and their cameras

    I love this photo. It reminds me of a very fun day with my pinhole crew (we are calling ourselves Pinhole Mayhem). For this particular outing we rented the portrait studio at Newspace and tried our hand at Pinhole studio portraits. It was super fun. ————————– Geeky bits: This was shot with my Zero 4×5…

  • A poem for the new year

    The silver crescent Is but a slice of what really is. Wait. In a moment The moon will be full again. ———————————- Read more poems about death and rebirth from my friends here.

  • Untitled post 20995

    There’re no footprints in the sky.