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Visiting the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe
As we were walking into the Georgia O’Keefe Museum, my dad spoke into the light summer rain. “This is it, you’re finally going to be able to see her museum, after all of the years of studying and admiring her paintings. Here’s the thing. I’ve been to this museum before, once when I was in high school. Georgia O’Keefe makes lovely paintings, but she’s not my favorite painter. I do like her paintings, though. When most people speak of O’Keefe, they usually bring up her big flower paintings, which are believed to be a clever abstraction of anatomy. Maybe they speak to her cow bone paintings, which are a little…
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May Mood Board: Stand Up, Get Stoked
This May mood board: stand up and get stoked. All I can think about is how I’m flying out to Costa Rica for a surfing trip on Friday morning. This trip has been so long coming! There is so much packing and preparing to do still, but I think it will be ok. Since there still hasn’t been a day off for me since the opera, I haven’t really found the time I would have liked to prepare the house, let alone work on the blog. I promise I’ll be better about posting in June once my life slows down a little. In the meantime, I’m wondering if I should…
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SUP Yoga Photography Tips
Last weekend I had the opportunity to work my first shift at Lake 288 with Big SUP yoga! One of the things I’m working on right now is how to take good SUP yoga photos for the students, so I thought I’d put together a list of SUP yoga photography tips. SUP Yoga Photography Tips Listen. Get an idea of everyone’s favorite pose and remember it along with their name. The sweetest sound to a person is the sound of their own name. While running through an intro about what it will be like on the water, throw in a few ice breakers and invite the students to introduce themselves,…
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March Mood Board: Live a Little
Is it Spring yet? I’m so ready for the second half of March. The winter space between December and early spring is so full of waiting. For longer days, warmer air, less… sticks everywhere. We don’t get winter in Houston so much as everything turns to sticks. But that’s changing. It’s not dark when I leave the office anymore, which is so energizing. Is anyone else ready to get outside again? I started my yearly herb garden seeds. This year it’s all about edible flowers. There’s something almost savage about eating flowers, like it’s taboo. Flowers are meant to be looked at, not chewed. Their flavor is often unexpected. While…
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How to Make a Woven Photo Collage in PhotoShop
Lately I’ve been feeling so inspired by woven photo collages and thought I’d put together a few quick ones in PhotoShop. Digital collages may not look as tactile and impressive as printed ones, but it’s much faster, less expensive since you don’t have to shoulder printing costs, and also cleaner. No mess. The other advantage of collaging with PhotoShop is you can easily move your photo around behind the mask to find juuuuust the right position for it. Cut and woven printed photos take some time and are so final. When I was younger, I used to loooooove cutting up photographs and collaging them together. A budding photographer and soon-to-be…
