An Eagle Away, A Crow at Home

Listening to a podcast recently, the author used the expression, “an eagle away, a crow at home.” This really got me thinking. As an artist, we are all, in some sense, eagles away and crows…

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Stop Shooting Start Crafting

Many times photographers go out into the world merrily shooting away only to come home and find their images don’t look like what they remember seeing. I’ve been asked many times why I like to…

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Amateur Hour

HI_0141-2, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Somebody posted something on Facebook today that has irked me a bit, so I thought I would vent a bit today. The post reads something along the lines of “you…

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Advice for Recent Grads

MainStreet_7741, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. So, I was watching this TV show the other day and they had some guest on yapping advice at recent grads. Since it is that time of year again, with…

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Tyranny of the Bullseye Strikes Again

ParadiseBuffet_1394, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Composition-wise, I was initially trained to avoid what some like to call “tyranny of the bullseye.” Allow me to explain. It’s very easy, sometimes even too easy, to put something,…

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