Congratulations Graduates

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Raspberry Returneth

A lit­tle over a month ago, while in the throes of what felt like the flu, my son appar­ently thought it would be hilar­i­ous to run off with my “new to me” cell phone¹ and then for­get where he left it. I had almost given up the search after about the sev­enth time I had turned our house upside down look­ing for it. Just this morn­ing, I remem­bered our couch has a nifty lit­tle spot where remotes and other valu­ables can be sucked into the depths of its nether regions. After turn­ing the couch on its side and remov­ing a few uphol­stery sta­ples, I peered into the dust cover panel under­neath– lo and behold, there was my phone. I am very relieved I don’t have go through the whole lost phone process with our phone com­pany although it was the per­fect excuse to upgrade to an iPhone for my upcom­ing birth­day. –wink–

Although, I don’t often apol­o­gize for my long absences from blog­ging, I would like to men­tion why I have been so busy recently. Over the last two months, after I finally decided to dis­con­tinue home­school­ing my youngest child, I have had many oppor­tu­ni­ties to free­lance for one of my local news­pa­pers, the Watauga Demo­c­rat. Not every shot I have sub­mit­ted has been pub­lished but I am learn­ing a tremen­dous amount about pho­to­jour­nal­ism and have been get­ting more requests for pho­tos each week. I hope I con­tinue to stay this busy– although hav­ing a lit­tle more time for blog­ging would be nice.

1. a black­berry pearl, I nick­named “the rasp­berry” [↩]

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Down the Long and Winding Road Street

In the inter­est of try­ing to post some­thing here more often, I am going to begin post­ing at least one shot (maybe two) from each weekly theme for my 365; I am now past two hun­dred days. I haven’t quite taken a photo every day but I cer­tainly have learned a lot about pho­tog­ra­phy and I hope it shows in my images. This past week the theme was “streets”. Here is a shot I have been want­ing to try for awhile now. It is kind of cliche but tak­ing these kind of shots, for me any­way, increases my under­stand­ing of how var­i­ous types of pho­tos are made.

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