I get about 20+ comments a day but from people who I have no idea who they are across the communities I post my work and stuff. BUT when someone I’ve met in real life says something, it’s like a hundred times better. It’s also fun to look at the map of daily visitors and see the cities...

This Christmas was kind of scattered. When my aunt was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, none of us really cared about Christmas or the things around it that much. Between visits to the hospital, we found ourselves celebrating Christmas in patches. My parents came over the weekend...

So I went thrifting earlier today at the local salvation army and came across a Minolta X-370 in a glass case. It was fully functional and vintagey looking which is something I adore.  I noticed it had a sigma lens attached to it and remembered the sigma lenses my parents bought for me at a...

Every now and then I just have an amazing day out. One of those days where everything wasn’t busy as heck, I had a moment to breathe, and I got to run around doing fun things. Also, I finally got a Sony TX-9 to replace my broken TX-1. I had forgotten how much easier it is to get photos of...

“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?” This visceral, concrete, and...

My mom sent me these pictures today of my kitty Manfred. Where there’s a will there’s a way! - Posted from my...

When I lived at home, I used to hate the menial tasks of cleaning. While the logical part of me understood that I could do just a little cleaning everyday and always have my living spaces clean, the totally-not-interested part of me liked to wait until the room looked like a tornado and then...

One of the fun things in my daily google reader queue is a series of comics from an artist with a sense of humor I can appreciate. Often taking cues from well known historical situations or book plots, he puts silly little twists at the end of his comics.   I’ve pasted one of my...

Sometimes you want a photo to go on your wall as a piece of art. Most of our photography, is just snapshot quality, or has way too many colors in it to be a carefully curated piece that fits into your rooms’ color scheme. So that’s where Photoshop comes in. You can go from this fairly...

I was cruisin’ on twitter yesterday when I saw a post by a friend about personality types and what she was labeled as. Being curious, I decided to take an online version of the test produced by Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers and see where I landed on their personality scale.  Turns out...

My mom and I were looking through some photo albums and I found some photos from India, of me and my cousins. Here is my family at the Scripture Union camp center, near the beach in Tamil Nadu. 10 points to whoever can point me out in this crowd. About a third of the group resides in the US...

So this year I’ve decided to officially attempt NaNoWriMo. Don’t know what that is? It’s the annual race to finish a 50,000 word novel before the end of November. That translates to about 1667 words a day for the month of November.  So, people, I want you to help me stay...

Believe it or not I actually got a little crafty today. Like, emulated some decor I liked from pictures on the internet. Yeah I know. The world has ended. Also I bought cupcake sprinkles. I don’t even own a baking pan. Or have ever baked anything. Ever.  That’ll be another story one...

My dad likes sending out cute internet forwards now and then. This one was particularly amusing so I thought I’d share. :) NICKNAMES · If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. · If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will...

So you know I spent a very long weekend in Florida back in August, capturing the southern tip of the peninsula with my eyes and lenses.  What you may not know is that on the last day of my trip my friend and I decided that we were going parasailing. We thought it was safe enough but we had a...

By the time you see this I will either be in the air or in Florida already. While I was packing last night, Molly made a silent suggestion. Sometimes you don’t need a voice get your point across. I’ve had that suitcase open all week but this was my last night and well… I think she knew....

I got my new iPhone on Tuesday, and so far I love it. Of course, it’s only been about 24 hours with the device but so far so good.  I don’t have the signal problem that people have been complaining about. I was able to sync and activate easily and all my stuff transferred from my old...

So for the longest time I’ve hated my car. The car functions perfectly. It’s reliable. It’s bland and I only bought it because I knew it would give me good gas mileage back when it was nearly four dollars a gallon. All I can remember is lamenting that nearly two hundred and...

An awful lot of folks are getting married these days. For us brown folk, we can find our own or hey there’s always online arrangement! So for fun I went on Shaadi.com to remind myself why I still don’t really consider marriage-via-Internet a good idea….This site never, never lets me...

I haven’t done a personal post in a while so here’s one about my weekend.  I went Kayaking this weekend for the first time ever. My friend Sidd took these pictures with his waterproof camera so they’re kind of blurry but I have to show you how awesome that day was. I chose the yellow...

I’ve been attending this social event / art class for almost a year now run by a company called ‘Sips n Strokes’. They have two locations in Atlanta (Dunwoody & East Cobb), and a third opening soon in Buckhead! My friends, co-workers and I are regulars. There are usually 30+ people...

Roswell is a great place to find old odds and ends, especially in the historic district. It’s haul from my house (1 hr +) but I’m over there all the time since my parents live there. This weekend I found myself trawling the antique store scene. I walked out with more loot than usual and...

I finally got my camera last night and boy am I blown away at what it allows me to do creatively. 1) The live view is unbelievably useful for macro photography. Now I can actually SEE what I am composing instead of taking a guess and holding my camera near the subject. 2) Color pickup in this...

When I first started dabbling into photography, I focused on things that generally didn’t move. Flowers, buttons, textures, etc… were my focus. I later expanded to include panoramas of landscapes and cityscapes but that still involved mostly non-moving subjects.  Lately though...

This morning we went to a family gathering to celebrate the birthday of one of my aunts. Midway through the dinner one of my other aunts motions for me to come over to where she is and tells me we have to talk, alone. Noticing there was a 6 month old baby in her arms and nobody else within...

It’s baseball and basketball season! This usually means nothing to me but I’ve looked at some of my older photos and noticed that I kind of like taking sports photography. At least, I think I’m half decent at it. Tonight was the GT vs. UGA baseball game (which we of course won) and I...

I’m a sucker for good racial comedy. I’ll admit it, I love hearing about what black people do and what chinese people say and how white people squeeze their tomatos at the grocery store and then laughing (mao) about it. It’s pretty common to see most races of comedians except...