Last week my son and I spent a couple of nice, leisurely days at the Oregon Coast with my mom and sister, who were visiting from out of town. I’m always amazing by how recharging even a short time away from work, emails, phone calls, and social networking can be. In the last few months,…
It’s been raining for two days. Then this afternoon, the sun came out. I grabbed my camera and raced for the door. But just as I got outside, the wind kicked up, the sky turned black, and rain began pelting down. This exact chain of events happened three times today, which may tell you a…
Over the weekend I watched the documentary, No Impact Man. Have you heard of it? Writer Colin Beaven talked his wife Michelle Conlin and their two-year-old daughter into dedicating a year to trying to make zero impact on the planet. That meant turning off their electricity in their New York City apartment, eating only local…
It’s been an unexpectedly busy week around here. That means I haven’t had much time for blogging … but we did find some time to escape to a peaceful spot next to a stream this afternoon. It’s in our neighborhood, just a few blocks from our house. But something about the sound of the water…
It’s TV Turnoff Week, or as Adbusters calls it Digital Detox Week. You can learn more about it here. The idea is to take a break from the television, computers, and digital gadgets that have become such a huge part of most of our lives and see what we might be missing out on, like…
I’ve been reading photography books lately, learning about aperture, shutter speed, film speed, and light meter. One of the books recommends that I snap photos of a particular color each day. So I walk down our block in the mornings with my camera as my son toddles along beside me squealing about everything he sees….