Four years ago, feeling deeply frustrated with circumstances that refused to budge despite my best efforts, I wrote an article called Trusting the ...
Between
I'm near the end of my first semester at Naropa University, the first time I've been at school in about ten years. It's been both exhausting and ...
Unfoldings
“I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” -Rainer Maria Rilke I've always felt an ...
The art of preference
Art is a funny thing. Somehow we think there's some sort of standard, a rule book for success that we'll finally be given access to once we're ready. ...
Vintage Lenses and Your Personal Vision
Where does your personal vision take you? These photos are some of my favorites from this summer so far. Water droplets are intriguing in how they ...
New Photos and Getting Summer Rolling
Spring has certainly been busy for me this year. For that reason, I haven't had as much time for photos as I would like. However, with ...
Vemodalen: there’s a word for that feeling
Do you ever feel that your snapshot of a beautiful place just can’t measure up to those taken by professionals? Maybe it seems that every ...
All Under One Roof
Hi there, and welcome! I know I've been AWOL for a while from my blog, Penbookcamera. But new things are happening! I've created ...
At the Edge of Silence
"At the edge of silence, you suddenly realized that you had been given the complete and utter gift of your own transparency, the revelation of your ...
That’s How the Light Gets In
For so many reasons, these words have been playing in my head recently. And sometimes, the best you can do is "ring the bells that still can ...