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The photo challenge this week was bokeh. It was a BEAUTIFUL day today and a lovely evening, so Chris and I headed out after TEFL class to give the bokeh project a try. Chris’ photo, by far, was my favorite of the evening: Of the photos I took, this was my favorite:  

Whoooo!! I finished this week’s photo challenge on time to submit to Gizmodo to be posted with all of the other submissions! The challenge this week was to take a photo at night that appears to have been taken in the daytime. This was a perfect weekend project because Chris and I are taking an [...]

The photo challenge last week was ice.  I had a few birthday candles left over, and so several days ago froze a couple.  I experimented with floating the ice candles in water and then on different backgrounds of paper.  Because I collage, I have myriad scraps of paper for just such occasions.  This project confirmed that [...]

Well, hello there, 2011!  It’s funny to think about new beginnings on January 1st because it always feels like such an arbitrary time of the year to begin again.  I think that my feelings of newness and awakening always occur in the spring, when flowers bloom and the sun is warm but breezes still cool; [...]