Writing, photography and gardening highlights. Optimism in sustainability.
I’ve printed some of my travel images on fabulous high quality Art Paper but can’t afford to print them all like that (and don’t have space to display them in my home anyway). Snapfish enabled me to produce a series of personal travel books at reasonable cost.
Making individual albums for each of my three children was going to be incredibly time consuming so I made a themed set of three albums that each of them could have copies of.
‘Family Ties’ was a gift for siblings & parents in South Africa, using a number of old photos from our archives that I had collated and digitised during my first trip last year.
For so long I put off digitising photographs because I’m no technical expert, but I sorted a system that worked for me and accepted that it might not be a perfect job but imperfect was better than nothing done at all.
Continue reading “Peek a Boo”Normally I’d photograph babies with soft light. However there was strong contrasty sunlight coming into this room which combined wonderfully with the dynamic between mum and son playing peek a boo.
There’s nothing like appreciating nature to soothe a weariness of soul.
The lighting was particularly awesome when I took these impressionist photos.
Getting to a small, manageable and orderly collection of photographs was, for me, liberating and it motivated me to work carefully through this next stage.
Continue reading “Curating A Collection of Old Photos to Keep”
How many times have you tried to find a particular photo but, after hunting everywhere it still eludes you?
Once I addressed overwhelm (here), the biggest hurdle in sorting the stash of old photographs was just getting started. My aim was to quickly reject as many unnecessary photographs as possible and get to a much smaller pile of keepers. Here’s my system:
Crouched in dark corners, forgotten in attics and cupboards, are boxes bursting with eyes and parts of limbs.
A few years ago, when the earthquake damaged roads of Christchurch reflected my inner being, a friend lent me his compass. Continue reading “Life Intersections”
