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.

Category: Photography

This might also be what this blog is mostly about.

  • Pinhole in the Library: Cleaning Up

    This is the last of my series of Pinhole In the Library photos, the final image that I had printed for the library’s art wall. This was another one from my “One Pinhole A Day” project from last year. I wanted to pinhole myself cleaning up after storytime, curious as to how all of the…

  • A photo and some rambling thoughts

    First, more pinhole in the library! This is one of the photos I printed to have hanging in the library this month. The photos were hung the other day and it was really awesome to come to work to find my photos the ones featured on our art wall. Kind of surreal, actually. In an…

  • Weeding

    Today’s image was made last year during my One Pinhole A Day project. It is a very long exposure, in which I placed the camera on the book truck and exposed the film while the books piled up on the cart as I weeded them. I think it’s kind of a fun look into one…

  • You were bigger, and brighter, and whiter than snow.

    I stepped in the car to go to the gym and I caught the tail end of the song, “Pictures Of You” on the radio and my heart skipped a beat because I love this song so much, and i haven’t heard it in ages. It reminds me of a boyfriend from years and years…

  • Tourist

    Today’s image was made with my Zero 45, again, during my Sheet A Day project a few years ago. I was setting up for storytime at our other library up the highway on Mt Hood. The library there has since moved and reinvented itself into a nice new building! And I no longer do storytime…