When I saw this tree with a staircase, I had to take photographs. It’s like a portal to another world, and my fairy princess daughter ran to them without promoting. A perfect moment.
Too bad I’m a terrible photographer who used her iPhone and has no idea how to make pictures look cool. Probably because I don’t use Instagram.
When I’m not disappointing myself by pretending to be something I’m not, I’m becoming more popular by reading and writing elsewhere.
My Other Hangouts (don’t tell my blog):
- I Miss Writing Poetry: On Erin Margolin: The Road To My Writer’s Roots, I ruminate on my own writing roots. Did you know I was a poet for 15 years before I began blogging? I miss it so much.
- My Top Five Books I Will Read This Summer Even If It Means My Family Is Ignored: On This Blogger Makes Fun of Stuff, I reviewed my top 5 summer reads. If you read any of them, we can have a virtual book club (which is the only kind I like {sigh}).
- A New Support Group For Parents Of Gender Non-Conforming Children: He, She, Ze, and We: On Richmondmom, I write about a new group for parents and caregivers of children who are transgendered, “princess boys,” “tom girls,” gender fluid, gender creative or anywhere on the gender-variant/non-conforming spectrum. If you know of a family who would be helped by a little more support, please pass along this article.
- What Did We Think Would Happen To The Doctor Who Helped Us Find Bin Ladin?: Yesterday’s post on Dr. Afridi was chosen to be ON THE COVER of Open Salon!
Favorite posts I didn’t read, I mean, write:
- The Magic Button: A magic button you can push to make everything okay. (cool)
- To Cheat or Not to Cheat: From Sports Illustrated, a special report on how steroids in baseball affected those in the minor leagues in the 90s and early 00s disproportionately and how one man came to terms with how his cheating destroyed his friends’ careers. (insightful)
- My So-Called Ex-Gay Life: From The American Prospect, a gay man recounts his therapeutic attempts to become heterosexual and how the resurgence of ex-gay therapy in the late 90s and early 00s was based on faulty data and only caused patients to become “anxious, depressed and suicidal.” (important)
- Being Single: From Law-Momma: Spilled Milk and Other Atrocities, a courageous confession of admitting life could be easily without kids. (honest)
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I used Instagram once to take a picture of my toilet seat and make it look all 1977 retro.
Classic.
For what it’s worth, I love your “overexposed” shot second from the bottom.
And your “I miss poetry” post and the “What did we think would happen” post.
Off to read the other ones. Because for someone who is disappointed in her photography skills, you sure are a kick-ass writer.
It’s possible to be a better photographer, but the end point isn’t photos that look ‘cool.’
And don’t use Instagram.
I dunno – looks like you captured your princess pretty well. Cute! And isn’t that a portal to another world?
When i got my ABC (Awesome Black Camera, Thank Abby, For the ABC thing, not the camera), I was on Fencecheck.com and getting all kinds of professional advice. It all boiled down to one sentence. “Fill the Frame”. Yeah, big landscappy pics are cool for their own sake but the really good shots have little open space. Your #3 is a good example. N is definitely the subject. The background is in back where it belongs. The steps are a geometrically interesting contrast. Good. Good. Good.