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I love kindness, community, laughter, and art in all its forms. Full time parent. Determined napper. She/her/hers 🇵🇭

Tag: Black and White

  • dry run

  • Kubota Garden

    As the weather warms and the sun slips through the cloud cover, just about everyone in Seattle has been prioritizing sunshine fun time. A friend suggested we check out Kubota Garden, which is about 20 minutes south of downtown. I took the black-and-white route with my photos. I might post some color ones next, but for now this is what…

  • Musculature

    In a rush to catch a bus, I stopped to take pictures of some stone benches and art that I’ve walked passed for years. Clicking away, falling into the bending light, a man yelled and told me that he had helped the artist who made them. Unfortunately, in my hurry, I did ask his name, but in a quick search I found…

  • Rodin Creations in Black & White

    I revisited and edited some photos I took at the Rodin Museum in Paris. The museum is a converted mansion that became the house for his work. It is a lovely, intimate space. Seeing the natural light fall on the sculptures in a house-like setting was pure joy.  This is just a small selection from the photos I took. For…

  • Don’t Look Down

    Every now and then I stumble across an image I forgot about or put aside because I knew I liked it, but didn’t do anything with it. I’ll start with one I found today that I have so many titles for, but I’ve taken to Don’t Look Down.

  • Bedroom Desert

  • Black, White, and All The Shades In Between

    In high school, before digital, we shot black-and-white film. It was a meditative practice. Five years ago I took some photography classes and one of my instructors was an incredibly passionate and experienced photographer. No-nonsense, hard-core, bad-to-the-bone master printer, Jhanavi Lisa Barnes taught us the zone system and helped us understand highlights and shadows. How to accomplish these things in-camera…

  • Forms and Lines

  • The Darkness of Spring: Learning and Self-Critique

    I jumped into the car this morning and headed for the local beach. I’d been inspired by a friend’s recent post of the grove of trees that sit in the middle of the Golden Gardens park. I wondered what I could capture on a cloudy grey morning, a lot different from the blindingly blue 70…

  • Running

      Running March 5, 2016  In processing this image, I was playing with the idea of DNA running across a gel. It was a lab exercise I did in high school chemistry. My memory is a bit foggy, but if I remember correctly, DNA is negatively charged, and traveled across to the positively charged nodes…