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Get On With It

I think I may be scraping myself too thin these days. As a writer, a mother, a teacher, a wife, and an artist. I have so many stories in me, but I am uncertain if trying to eek them all out simultaneously, bit by bit on my own and on Kindle Vella, is the right move. The trouble is time and focus. The troubles are time and focus? My brain is tired. That's the rub. It isn't that I don't get enough sleep. In fact, I think I probably get way too much because depression and anxiety often get me down. Getting out of bed is hard sometimes. But even when I manage that, it is a different story to be able to sit down and write.  Plus, I am a fantastic procrastinator. Like, really pro.  How, you say? Let me give you 20 - 40 examples. Should I actually be writing my fiction stories right now? Phsaw. This is important . Method number one - laundry needs to be monitored. Not done, per se, because once I put it in the machine I should be able to walk away and write. In fact, it is kind
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CATALYST

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My second fiction novel is officially released today! It is $0.99 for the rest of the week, so I hope to get it in front of as many people as possible. I also have an interview that you can check out here about the book and my process and whatnot. It was so fun!
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It's Because of the Students

I recently came across this piece I wrote a while back for a colleague of mine.  He has written several books and one of them was on Teaching Photography.  He asked me and some other compatriots of mine to write a brief piece about teaching and I wrote this one . That class was an amazing class.  Several of the students in that class have gone on to do amazing things - winning competitions, getting published, starting up their own businesses in San Francisco and New York.  It was truly an inspiration class.  And they're rare. I had one like that last semester, as well, and it was so amazing I am still regularly emailing several of the students about their work, their inspirations, and flat out asking them questions to help me make my classes stronger.  This is why I do what I do.  For them.  And as I start a new semester I am looking forward to having these types of classes again, though I have no idea how or when I will be that lucky.  I had an amazing workshop class at UCSD E
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Tintype Artifacts

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So, if I were to create a bucket list just for my photography, this would have been on it.  Learn how to make a Tintype and do it .  Throughout my photographic career I have gotten really good at theory and less good at practice.  Yes, that is how I scratched a name for myself - the theory of photographic practices as written in articles and books - and I do actually love the theory, but I love the creation of photography even more.  That is something I have sort of forgotten recently. Once you start teaching and keeping active with writing and raising kids, short cuts start sounding really good.  So, I have been playing around in my digital photographic world, seeing if my Silver Efex Pro can actually make an image reminiscent of my favorite Tri-X film, or trying to fake those exposed negative edges as an image frame. But a couple of important things happened to me in the last year that have brought me back to the thing I love most about photography, and that is the artifact .  I
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Compositing

Of my many hats, and believe me, there are many (you should try being my tax guy), one of my favorites is working with c't Digital Photography, a magazine that is a part of the Rocky Nook Family, where my three books have been published.  With c't Digital Photography I work on their social networking.  Basically, I write blogs for their readership.  What I like so much about this, though, is that I get to be more casual about how I approach my language and ideas.  It occurred to me yesterday that one thing I love to do and haven't written about is Compositing.  So I decided to set up a series of blogs discussing compositing through my relationship at c't Digital Photography.  I'm really excited about it!  It's a fun topic, it's something I teach all the time, and I have never written a word about it until now. So I encourage you to check out the compositing series, starting today on the c't Digital Photography blog.   Check back weekly for more info!
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Tin Man Lee - Renaissance Man

Be sure to check out the Nik Photography - Google+ page to see one of my latest articles about a wonderful wildlife photographer named Tin Man Lee.  He is a fantastic photographer and a truly sweet guy.  Click here and then proceed to the May 4th entry about Tin Man.  Just look at that photo!
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Click with "Nemo"

The ever so friendly John "Nemo" over at Click With Nemo at Pixiq did a lovely interview with me about my newest book "Digital Capture After Dark" that I co-authored with Philipp Scholz Rittermann. You can hear the Podcast here.
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