I love to take a close look. But sometimes a little distance helps you see what things are. I thought I published this yesterday–guess I needed a little more.

words. But I’m a writer–it’s supposed to be about the words, isn’t it? Not so fast. I’m learning that pictures feed my words. I’ve been trying to walk outside,  think in images, capture my own, and let them guide, or even tell, my stories. If you want to learn to take better pictures–pictures that feed [...]

Sometimes an apple a day just isn’t enough.  

I am an enthusiastic novice photographer, obsessed at the moment with close-up, macro, shallow depth of field, bokeh.   I wonder what it would be like to see through this kind of lens all the time, intent on whatever or whoever is in front of me, to give it or him or her my complete attention, [...]