This Month’s Header Photo: Oyster Dome Trail
My friend Cami Kasmerchak shared the photo above. Check out her website and Instagram!
Category: Photography
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Make Lists Not War Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak–Year of the Photograph: A Project to Give Myself Permission to Be Me
At the beginning of 2019 I decided to take the year to explore my passion of photography more deeply through the self-proclaimed “Year of the Photograph.” At the time, I was living in Seattle, WA…
Two Passages from the Obama Photo Book
Michelle, Ma Belle Paul McCartney had been awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in a ceremony in the East Room. For most of the evening, other artists performed his songs. But for the conclusion,…
Share the Wealth with Carrie Niswonger: Life Through a Lens
Photography is another way to view the world around us as well as using our eyes. While photography has many uses, numerous people popularly use it as an artistic medium to capture moments, emotions, and…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: The Hidden World of Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier’s work was first discovered about 10 years ago when a man named John Maloof purchased a trunk full of negatives at a Chicago storage auction. Maloof did not know it then, but he…
The Good News, 3.2.2017
The Good News is…Andrew Wimmer just invested in a Fuji camera, and this means he will he honing his eye-craft, which I am sure will bring joy, insight, and provocation to others. One day may…
Brave and Bereaved (Photo Meditation/46)
A Dear Layla chapter entitled Solidarity/2 begins Dear Carla One of my temporary partners in Gaza is Noreen McCarty (We all come and go) Who declared to us newcomers one day “There are no women…
Colloquium with Cami
Cami and I are taking turns each month sharing something with each other. Last month I did a session on Gurus, Teachers, and Mentors, and this weekend she shared the following reflections for our writing…
Carrie Niswonger, Cami Kasmerchak, Oliver Clark!
I thought this might interest you–on the work on Henri Cartier-Bresson at Eric Kim’s web site.