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: September 2017

  • Trees at Blue Lake

    Zero 200 + Ektar 100 @ 1 second.

  • Springtime at Blue Lake

    I have a series of pinhole photos from a place called Blue Lake. It’s a pleasant little park in Fairview, not far from where we live. We like to visit there when we want a mellow walk. This particular photo was taken with my Zero 2000. Ektar 100 was used. The exposure time was 1…

  • Prayer flags

    Still not feeling particularly bloggy. Here is a gif I made. The best thing that happened today is that we booked plane tickets to England to attend Pinhole Day in Norwich! I wasn’t sure if we could make it happen this year but happened to check prices on Tuesday night and tickets to London were…

  • Angel’s Wing

    This morning I woke up with laryngitis, so I’m still pretty much a mess. I am still home sick. I am sick of being sick. I hate not being able to talk. I don’t have any ideas for a blog post, and since I’m committed to 100 days of blogging for about 15 more days…

  • Globalization of indifference

    “The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people, makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others; indeed, it even leads to the globalization of indifference. We have…