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.

  • River Pool

    Here is a photo I took last September. This has been sitting in my “photos to upload to Flickr” folder for months and months. When I first saw it, it didn’t do much for me. It was one of those where I thought, “Meh.” So it just sat there, waiting for me to upload it.…

  • Surreal Purple Landscape

    I mentioned a few months ago that I saw the documentary The Enclave at the Portland Art Museum. The documentary was filmed in Aerochrome which renders the landscape in brilliant pinks and reds. The choice of this film was brilliant for many reasons. Reasons that belong in their very own blog post. This particular blog…

  • Cathedral Wisp

    Over Christmas I decided to take long-neglected Zero 2000 (pinhole camera) out for a spin. I finally scanned the negatives this past week. This was the last shot on the roll. I used the shot up at Cathedral Park in Portland on my way to dropping the film off at Blue Moon Camera And Machine.…

  • The beginning of a beautiful friendship

    You know this post is about a camera, right? No. I’m not obsessed. Not at all. 🙂 Several months ago I was commissioned to knit a Dr. Who scarf for a Twitter friend. It was a fun project to knit and the recipient is very happy, which, in turn, makes me very happy as well…

  • Lunch – Pinhole Self Portrait

    One of the things I have wanted to do this year was re-start my sheet-a-day project. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. I don’t know why. There are a lot of things that I wanted to start in the new year that haven’t happened. Maybe it’s the struggle with depression. Maybe it’s because my job has gotten…