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: May 2015

  • Self On Lake Shore

    Today’s photoblog is a pinhole self portrait I took a few weeks ago at Trillium Lake. It is my first paper negative. I have since made several more images using photographic paper and I’m really enjoying learning how to do this. I will post more about this in a future blog post. I might have…

  • I’ve got a peaceful, easy feeling

    I’ve got a peaceful, easy feeling

    The desert. I promised I would write about the desert. A couple of months ago I visited my Dad and stepmother at their new winter home in Needles California. Needles is on the border of California and Arizona, located in the Mojave Desert. I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I grew up in Spokane,…

  • “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” –Dalai Lama

  • thrifty $1

    This is the last of my Sandy In Black And White series for now. I need to load my Holga with more Tri-x and wait for a rainy day. This is one of the latest business in what is known as The Junker Building. For reasons I don’t understand, businesses do not stay around for…

  • “Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison