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.

Tag: self portrait

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes

    I took my Holga Pinhole camera with me to the beach a couple of weekends ago. I experimented something fierce all weekend and had a blast. This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is “World through your eyes.” The idea is to put some of the basic principles of photography to practice: Storytelling & composition. My favorite…

  • Bless my heart. Bless my soul. Didn’t think I’d make it to 44 years old.

    Today is my birthday. Here is my semi-annual self portrait with my NEW glasses.

  • me in a year

    For some inexplicable reason I thought it would be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison from a portrait taken one year ago with one taken today. A year ago I brought my camera to my after school Vista program and let the kids play  around with it. One of the kids, Angel, is a natural…

  • Wayback Wednesday

    A black and white self portrait I took when I was a nanny in Menlo Park, CA. I am in the fabulous house that I lived in, sitting on the fab couch. Those were the days. I don’t think I realized how good I had it at the time. For a time I tried to…

  • Me

    I found out yesterday that I won a photography contest! This photo here will be the opening photo for the family section of this year’s Inlander Annual Manual. I’m so exited! I didn’t even enter the contest with that photo. They just happened to see it on the Spokane! Photoroll stream on Flickr and liked…