Ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut creatively? Maybe you’re making strides in one area to the exclusion of all others? Perhaps you’re focused on photography, but still dream of writing a book someday. Or maybe you’re a whiz at design, but really want to return to your roots as a painter. Maybe you [...]
Post Haircut Fun With the Camera (D245)
It was a night of haircuts for the boys in the Dawson family. When all was said and done, I grabbed the camera to capture some shots of the new haircut. I love it when our little one poses for the camera… he’s so free and fun. Of course he always wants to take pictures [...]
Photographing Outside the Lines (D199)
Were you a color inside the lines or outside the lines kind of kid? We all were one or the other. Maybe some of us were color outside the lines, but wanted to be color inside the lines. Me, I was a color inside the lines with extreme care and meticulous precision, but longed to [...]
A Smart Girl’s Survival Kit for the New Decade (D122)
So I’m not sticking with the theme this week. I will definitely work on that in 2010. But for today I want to reflect on where I was 10 years ago at this time. In one word, Y2K. Well, if that’s a word. I was a single mom in a ministry that was a bit [...]
D65: A Story in a Still
Holding back tears as I write. Been holding back the floodgates all day, an apt metaphor since I took a photowalk in the upper and lower 9th ward of New Orleans. Four years later, the devastation of Katrina is still larger than life. It IS life for some. And it has been death for others—literally [...]







