Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Taxing, chaotic, challenging, a blur! Words come to mind as I sit and reflect on the previous six months. Juggling many roles and responsibilities on one day tends to blend into the next; no wonder..

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” Dustin Sparks, Landscape photographer. Two-and-half years have passed since I received a cathartic gift — my first sophisticated camera, a Nikon 5600.  Thoughts experienced on that..

Life!  What a ride. Rarely does it slow down. Regardless of where we call home, opportunities to take a much-needed break, even sporadically, can sometimes seem impossible to find.  We might want to allow ourselves..

The annual holiday (vacation, trip) is a custom in my family. Each year much research and preparation go into meticulously planning this event, right down to the smallest of details. Regardless of whether it be..

“What next, where to now, can I really go through with releasing this website? Can I share MY life, good and horrible, to anyone who might stumble across The Picture Healer? This is not me;..

Like most things in life, there are many types of photography. Landscape, portrait, wildlife, aerial, macro, abstract, the list goes on. Each form of photography requires a slightly different set of knowledge and skillsets, for..

From last week’s rather average shot of birds flying (but an accomplishment, nonetheless) to this! “She didn’t take that”. If that’s what you’re thinking, I was, too. I took this waterside picture on the same..

I’d often wondered and admired how people could take precise photos of moving objects without it resulting in a big blurring blob.  A bird, for example. No-one wants to see a big blurry blob flying through the sky, I certainly don’t; straight to the dreary deleted items bin..

That old saying, ‘you take to something like a duck to water’, definitely was not me when I took to photography. Obstacles were prolific both with my camera and with myself. Sure, James had once..

Yep, I know what you’re thinking, ‘it’s a bottle of water, it’s upside down and half of it is missing! What on earth is she thinking and how could bottled water help anyone learn how..