The American painter and printmaker Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1930 but quickly moved to South Carolina to live with his grandparents after the separation of his parents. Unlike some of the…
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WhiteOnGreySmallBloom, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It’s spring! It’s spring! The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, the humans are sneezing (damn allergies.) I’ve been doing a multitude of photo excursions, including some out to…
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EltonJohnAndGlasses-1, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. This week, last night to be specific, I had a hankering to go out and do some night shooting a bit so I rounded up a few friends from the…
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GreenBenchInAlley, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It’s almost spring and that means…time for spring cleaning! Are you thinking about cleaning out your closets and drawers about this time of year? Maybe, instead of doing that (or,…
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WhiteHouseNo1, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. This weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend an inspirational photography weekend hosted by Craig Tanner and Marti Jeffers. The workshop ran a full two days and covered everything from…
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LaundryDayAtBlueHouse, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Hello, you’ve reached the blog of Carol. We’re sorry, but she can’t take your call right now she’s busy fending off…no actually she’s been eaten by a large pile of…
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ChaseInCoal, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. This just in…in David Tennant news, David is going to star in a new BBC Drama called “Single Father” about a photographer whose “world comes crashing down when his wife…
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GestureDrawing, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Today I *finally* got around to uploading some drawings from my recent sessions. I hope you like them though I have to admit they are, ahem, a bit “primitive” in…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.” – Edward Weston “500? Even that’s pushing it. I’d go 250 and, yes, Regis, that’s my final offer.” – me
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SolarLanternAndSnow, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. No, it’s not more snow in store for us today. Sorry, but I’m only posting this because I’ve just spent a good part of the day in my encaustics studio,…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow !” – Man Ray “The crap of today is the classic of tomorrow!” – me
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “As a child I dabbled in the arts but I wasn’t raised to know that I could be an artist. I didn’t come from that kind of background….I came late to…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.” –…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “I am a “photoholic”. I love photography, I love photographs and many of my best friends are photographers. And, therefore, I don’t think that color photography is better than black and…
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SnowDay, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It’s snowing in Austin today. We’re expecting between one and four inches where I live. As you can see from the photo here, we’ve already gotten about an inch (or…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “You only do exercises in art school. That’s not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don’t know what…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography: “What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” – John Berger “And luck. Don’t forget dumb luck because, as I’ve found, that gets…
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TheAnswerIsBlowingInTheWind, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. If you’re familiar with my photographic style you probably know how, on the litmus scale of photography, I’m very far from the photojournalist side of things. I’d go so far…
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Today’s Quote(s) on Photography:“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas “If what we see is what…
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The-PilotDidnt, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It was a sunny Thursday morning, warm and mild with a slight breeze. I was running late, as always, scurrying down highway 183 as fast as possible without drawing attention.…
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