It's happened to me time and again, I take my camera out on a photo walk and everything is all wrong. The light is flat, the scenery dull and uninteresting. I wonder what I'm doing out in the cold and wind, and I just want to give up and go home. There's nothing to see [...]
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It's been said that there are few pictures of me where I'm not hiding behind a camera. That might be true. But, since it's my birthday, and I'm in a celebratory mood, I thought I'd just prove that there are a few pictures of me sans camera. Also, since I was going through old photos, [...]
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We don’t get practice time, and then go out and live our lives after we’ve perfected ourselves. We go out and try things, see if they work, we fall down, we get up, we embarrass ourselves, we don’t die of embarrassment – but we don’t get to practice life without an audience. And that audience usually has an opinion. It doesn’t matter.
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I toyed with the idea of a photography show intermittently for a couple years, but something always stopped me. I couldn't imagine working up the courage to approach someone about showing my work. I wasn't sure my work was good enough. I was scared - scared of both failure and success. Then one day in [...]
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I love the sea. I love its fury. I love its calming presence. I love the ebb and flow. So much life and movement and energy. It is, at once, destructive and regenerative.
Read MoreIt was a crisp October morning, 21 years ago that I moved to Seattle. I was 21 years old. That's half my life. I was the girl from the small town in Alaska. I had a line on a job, and a line on an apartment and roommates. Neither were set in stone. It was [...]
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