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.

Author: Moni

  • meandering roots

    Today’s image comes from the same fun day of shooting as the previous 2 photoblog posts. I really love the way this camera distorts perspective. Let’s see what word.camera has to say about it: In the meantime, a river, a plant, and a travel. Yet, the river is created by a moving fluides. The plant…

  • Pinhole Mayhem! June outing at the River View Cemetery

    For our Pinhole Mayhem outing in June we visited a cemetery in Portland – I think it was the River View Cemetery. We missed meeting up in April (due to WPPD) and May (due to crazy schedules). It was super fun to be hanging out with my pinhole gals again. Yes, we brought a Ouija…

  • Maps

    This was a really fun outing with my pinhole camera. We visited a part of the Salmon River Trail we’d never seen before – which is pretty amazing considering I thought hiked every inch of that trail. When I saw this image I immediately thought of a map. And now I have this song running…

  • “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.” -Walt Whitman

  • 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…