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July 18, 2013 by Kat

A Different View of Chicago

This trip was an experiment. For the first time ever while traveling, I left the dSLR at home and just took the iPhone. Lately, even when I bring the “big” camera along, I don’t use it. Or if I do use it, I don’t do anything with the photographs. I wanted to find out if I would miss having the “big” camera with me on a longer trip.

The verdict? Nope, I didn’t miss it. I didn’t miss carrying around the weight. And surprisingly, I didn’t miss the expectation that I was supposed to take a certain kind of picture that seems to stick in my head when I carry the dSLR. I just captured what caught my eye as we went along. I took a lot fewer photographs, and of very different things, than when I visited Chicago almost two years ago. Part of it is due to the equipment I didn’t carry, but part of it is due to my changing interests and eye. It all plays together.

Here are a few of the things that captured my interest as we walked around…

A different view, huh?

February 28, 2013 by Kat

Revealing Inner Beauty

Winter allows us to see a tree’s inner beauty

I wrote that phrase as I posted this image to Instagram today. It just fit. What I love about this image is the shape of the tree. Not just the beautiful outer curve, as you would see when it is full of leaves, but the inner beauty of the limbs as they twist their way outward into smaller and smaller branches. You can see the beauty of the whole tree, not only what’s on the surface.

And it got me to thinking… Life is like this too. Often it’s the quiet patches, the harder parts of life that really show what we are made of. It’s the difficulties and the down times that can reveal our true strength and inner beauty. It’s how we discover who we are at the core.

Just as we would not appreciate light without darkness, we wouldn’t appreciate summer as much without the comparison to the winter cold. And winter reveals an inner beauty, all its own.

November 21, 2012 by Kat

The Best Laid Plans

I had plans last week. Plans to be creative and get started on some new projects. Early in the week I wrote my blog posts ahead, which I rarely do, so I could have extended time to write on Thursday and Friday morning. And then…

I got sick.

Not horribly sick or anything. Just enough to use that extra writing time I had freed up for sleep. Not sick enough to stay in bed all day but enough to have no creative energy. For those of you who create through chronic illness, I salute you. All I’ve wanted to do for the last week is sit in my comfy chair, cuddled up under a quilt with a book and a mug of tea.

And here I am, a week later, feeling much the same. So I’m surrendering to it. I managed to get the Digital Photography Basic eBook done and out, but that’s it for this week. It’s time to sink into my comfy chair and get better, so I can enjoy Thanksgiving tomorrow with my in-laws who are visiting from out of state.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I’ll see you back here when I’m feeling better.

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