I had a meeting with a client yesterday and was presented with the usual dilemma of what to wear.  Fortunately, the business end of it was solid and secure, but switching from my usual private “barn clothes”, that are OH so comfortable, is always a challenge, especially since I usually work from the comforts of my home or out in the field, literally. It was so much easier as a public education “official” —...

O. Helene Kobelnyk launches optimistic lifestyle magazine.  Read the whole story about the New Mexico based  online publication here.  More information and the “rest of the story” can be found in the latest press release. Read Helene’s guest post on Black Star Rising — the leap from photographer to publisher. Newly released limited edition prints will be available through February 2013 only.  Order now to have...

  It was the coldest night of season and I awoke at 5:30 this morning and turned on the TV to watch “Balalaika” with Nelson Eddy, from under a warm down comforter and snuggled among my doggies.   A point of clarification, Nelson Eddy is in the movie, not in my bed. I grew up with the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald musicals, and Balalaika (costar is Ilona Massey) was always one of my favorites, and my mom’s, because it...

I’m pretty tired of these “self-righteous” morning news show hosts.  It’s bad enough they can’t come up with their own news, they now drag videos off YouTube and put the creators on the show. The poor mom who made this prank video was so frowned upon because she had made her son cry, with the concensus being that is was a “cruel prank”.  Her response was that she wanted her son to have a healthy sense...

  I first participated in Project 365 in 2011 –one photo for each day of the year, and then modified it in 2012 to include writing. As I looked back over the years’ work and the photos I selected as my POTD (Photo of the Day), I realized how much I had grown in skill and vision, how much photography is still a joyous part of my daily life, and how much more there is to discover not only in photography but in this fabulous...