First paddle of the season
"It's a magic kind of medicine no doctor can prescribe."
-Jimmy Buffett
Took my first paddle of the season yesterday, and in light of all that's going on, worked wonder...
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Life Lessons from a Brownie Camera - Process, Not Outcome
Life Lesson #5 - Process, Not Outcome
Using the Brownie on several photographic projects has reinforced that it is the photographic process, not the resulting photogra...
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Life Lessons from a Brownie Camera - Acceptance
Life Lesson #4 - Acceptance
I do not have the element of control with this camera like I do with my other cameras. Given all the unique elements to the Brownie camera...
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Life Lessons from a Brownie Camera - Blemishes
Life Lesson #3 - Blemishes
With today’s technology even the simplest of cameras deliver image quality only dreamed of decades ago. Photos from the Brownie often have o...
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Life Lessons from a Brownie Camera - Limitations
Life Lesson #2 - Limitations
There is no zoom, no settings dial, the image seen in the viewfinder doesn’t exactly line up with the lens, and no focus control whatsoeve...
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Life Lessons from a Brownie Camera - Simplicity
Life Lesson #1 - Simplicity
Kodak Brownie cameras couldn’t be simpler - to take a picture, just compose your subject and press the shutter button, which is the only co...
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Life Lessons From a Brownie Camera - Introduction
The Kodak Brownie
Introduced in 1900, the Kodak Brownie was aimed at getting people interested in photography and sold for $1.00, which included film and processing. E...
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Memorable Moments: Whooping Cranes
Four hundred and thirty seven.
That, according to the latest survey, is the number of Whooping Cranes living in the wild. Recovering from a low of twenty-one in the 1940...
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Inspirations
I read this quote by Sig Olson and immediately thought of Bird Creek, just outside of Anchorage, Alaska. Autumn is a fickle time in south-central Alaska; sometimes the la...
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Wetlands: The Beauty and Mystery
“The creeks overflow: a thousand rivulets run
‘Twixt the roots of the sod, the blades of marshgrass stir;
Passeth, and all is still; and the currents cease to run;
And...
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Memorable Moments: Moose Family
One of the highlights of my three years living in Anchorage was the ability to photograph moose on a regular basis. Anchorage is quite unique in that moose can be found l...
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