This week’s topic is Blogging. I began “blogging” when the favorable term for it was online diary. We called ourselves diarists, though my online diary became a place to publish my preteen and teen poetry. Here is one of my earliest poems (though it was edited later when I was at college): The Night We … Continue reading My Time Blogging
This week’s topic violates my agreement with myself not to talk about politics on social media. But, alas, it’s on the list generated by WordPress. (See my post Weekly Challenge.) I feel it’s best to take politics off social media and to talk in person instead. On social media, there’s rarely anyone suspending their judgment … Continue reading Topic 9: Politics
I wasn’t a huge moviegoer until the 1990s and later when I was dating and at college. But my parents introduced me to movies via VHS and TV when I was very young, so I'm looking back at my earliest memories—many of which are quite pleasant. I believe that these early childhood memories are the … Continue reading Topic 8: Movies
I’m not an outstanding writer. If I were, I suppose I’d be a great author. As it is, I muddle through with what I know—most of it learned in childhood. I learned proper sentence structure, the meanings of words, and was a good speller back then; now, I have to use dictionaries and spellcheckers to … Continue reading Topic 7: Writing
This week’s post from my WP blog list is Family. When I think of family, I naturally think of my kids and husband and our daily lives together. Then there’s family before marriage: growing up with Mom and Dad, my brother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents, of which, memories pop up and out come photos, … Continue reading Topic 6: Family
I’ve reached the seventh and last day of my daily photography posts. Photography is one of my fifty weekly WordPress topics and has been a lot of fun blogging about. I’ve enjoyed photography since I got my first camera and filled my computer with every type of photograph imaginable. The imagination of a child runs … Continue reading Daily Photography Post 7
I find it difficult to photograph people—especially teens and adults. As soon as they see a camera pointed at them, they usually put on a false face. They turn off their feelings for a moment to either smile, grin, ham it up, or display whatever mask they’re fond of wearing while the camera is pointed … Continue reading Daily Photography Post 6
I like being able to create foreign worlds with photography. Photography is a magical kind of art. A change of angle or lighting can create a surreal magic. The world becomes like a dream—a place of abstract expressionism. The picture is the imagination you created with reality. I sometimes use the macro function on my … Continue reading Daily Photography Post 5
Today’s post is a fun one: Photo manipulation (aka photoshopping). From digital enhancement to eliminating elements, “shopping” isn’t something I like to do to my photography because I feel like I’m tricking the viewer into believing something that isn’t true. But when I was a kid and digital photography was new to me, I went … Continue reading Daily Photography Post 4
Yesterday I wrote about the golden mean in art and photography and how it’s a mathematical measurement that creates harmony and balance. I never perfected the concept. I eyeball my photos through the lens and try for the best. Below are more animal pictures—this time birds and fish. I have thousands of such photos, but … Continue reading Daily Photography Post 3
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