The last week or so I feel like I'm beginning to go through The Dip. While traveling I have been able to take some pictures, but I haven't planned for how I want to evolve and improve my practice. Nor have I really assessed and organized the shots I've taken. The dopamine high of seeing …
Short post just before we leave Costa Rica. It has been a wonderful few weeks and life back in France feels like it was forever ago. But back we go and it will be interesting to see what habits I need to develop to keep up with these challenges. 4 February, 2020 5 February, 2020
I will admit like many of my systems in life, I have let those for my photography go woefully un-updated for years. This is one of the major reasons for choosing it as my February challenge. While there are lots of aspects of my organization, shooting style, and editing that I want to improve, I …
First official day of the new challenge! I decided to read through the manual for my Sony a6000 camera and take some pictures on the beach. I realized there are actually more customization options than I had thought before, so I'm sure I will play with those more over the course of this month. Normally, …
Similar to my earlier 'I'll sleep when I'm dead' mentality, most of my vacations have historically been as jam-packed full of activities as humanly possible. I think some of this comes from trips with my parents, like when we went to Spain more than 20 years ago. Each day we got up early and took a …
Humans are inherently amazed by bioluminescence, or the production of light by living organisms. It can come from a multitude of sources: land or sea; animal, plant, fungi, or bacteria. Think of any film scene featuring bioluminescence, real or science fiction, and inevitably all of the characters stop what they are doing and take in the …
When we first arrived in Costa Rica and went to the supermarket to buy groceries, I noticed that next to the 'normal' limes there was another variety. To be honest, at first they sort of looked like reject limes, since their zest was pockmarked, like my early pubescent face with acne. However, I always love …
This post will be published about an hour before my self-imposed (and financially backed) deadline. Partly because I'm on vacation and we were at the beach and partly because when we got back to the apartment, the power was out and the wifi is currently my only source of internet connectivity. It has been a while …
I remember when I moved to Montpellier and started learning French, people would ask me if I had started to dream in French yet. "That's when you know that you can really speak the language," they would say. Over time, two things happened: 1) I did start incorporating some French into my dreams, and 2) …
Chortles and Harrumphs 