When you question your value and start to wonder why you bother… When you doubt your ability and consider giving up the fight… When you lose your focus and can’t seem to find your way in the dark… STOP. Then ask yourself one question that can change everything… Think about it. Answer from your heart. [...]
We CREATE: Female Filmmakers PSA
“Because of their age long training in human relations—for that is what feminine intuition really is—women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.” – Margaret Mead 42 dedicated women filmmakers and photographers. Five sparkling days in the Bahamas. One powerful message: Women Create. I was a speaker at the first professional event [...]
I Admit It, I’m Selfish (D301)
In the final stretch of this 365 challenge and in the first 10 days of my 75-DAY SPRINT TO THE FINISH, I’m having to change things up. Committing to losing 30 pounds in 10 weeks requires some intense focus… and to complete that along with the 3 rules I’m already keeping each day to complete [...]
75-DAY SPRINT TO THE FINISH (D293)
If you’ve been around since the inception of the tasra365 photo challenge (started after a dinner conversation with master photographer Scott Bourne and later watching Julie & Julia in the theater) then you know that our time is coming to an end. (Cue sad music.) There is something exciting, liberating, and also saddening about nearing [...]
Photographing a True Poser on White Seamless Background (D292)
I don’t know where he gets it. Maybe he was born with it, maybe it’s me… the photographer with a camera always ready to capture his faces and poses… maybe it’s his dad… the filmmaker with a pro camera out for every major family event… whatever the cause, we now have a true poser on [...]
The Crazy Life of a Creative (D272)
Do you ever just think to yourself… “What in the world am I doing?” The subject of my photos today had to be thinking that at some point. Who is he and why is he standing next to a freeway dressed like a leprechaun? By the same token, who am I that as soon as [...]
Zack Arias and Jeremy Cowart Could Shoot It Better (D264)
It’s easy to go with the flow, to fit in with the group, to do what we’re told. Maybe not easy, but it feels easier to listen to the music someone else created, exclaim about images someone else took, enjoy books someone else wrote. It’s easier than writing the book inside us, creating our great [...]
Photo Theme Thursday: Flight of the Photographer (D262)
Each photographer creates their own flight plan … whether the plan is to go from amateur to aspiring to professional or whether the adventure starts with a student at photo school and heads into the world of photojournalism. We each navigate through to our final destination, some flying at break-neck speeds, others moving at their [...]
Exercising Creative Freedom (D251)
It may be the only type of exercise I do, but I certainly have been exercising my creative freedom lately. Today, Mother’s Day, I had the joy of being treated to an entire day to myself… alone time… recharging… regenerating… heaven for an introvert. I took advantage of the opportunity to fill my creative tank… [...]







