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A Look Back at 2022

1/1/2023

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Looking back at 2022, I’m full of gratitude for adventures with so many wonderful humans and animals, a challenging and fun job with awesome coworkers, delicious food, and lots of love and silliness with my beloved. Happy New Year, all! May you have the energy and opportunity to follow your dreams. Here’s how my 2022 shaped up, in about one second a day.
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What Feeds Your Creative Soul?

8/31/2022

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What feeds your creative soul? For me, it’s playing with all kinds of media: art-making, paint-playing, collage-creating, ink-splattering, and note-scratching random fun. All the different forms feed my creativity with the camera, in graphic design, and more. So I took an art journaling class with Amie Oliver, and here’s what happened. Click on the video below for a little tour through two journals I’ve been working in over the last two months!
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Echoes: Shapes and Lines from a New England Road Trip

6/30/2022

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2,218 miles, 9 days, 11 states
I set out with the vague idea of capturing magic, whatever that might look like. And in this collection of photos, I share what is magic to me: the interconnection of all things. The bell shape of a flower is the bell shape of a ctenophore bioluminescent jellie. The lines of a granite quarry are echoed in the lines of bamboo photographed with intentional camera movement. A Beluga whale's fin is a Salem tombstone is a Japanese pagoda tucked in a nook of ferns. Echoes in shape, line, and color. Here's a look at what I found.


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Life and Death on the Mara

2/2/2021

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Just over a year later--please enjoy this photo essay of my time in Kenya in January 2020.
Life and Death on the Mara
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The Wonders of the Night

7/26/2020

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I recently had the honor of being featured in Golden Isles magazine in an article about photographing the night sky. The Georgia Coast and its beautiful night skies are an endless source of wonder for me. I've braved the late hours and sand gnats so you don't have to. Click on any of the images below to bring some of the wonder into your home... no bug spray required.

Nighttime Playground

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Two whale statues on a playground on Saint Simons Island in Georgia make for a fun foreground to the Milky Way.
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Under the Stars, Red Dreams

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Light painting (in this case, "coloring" the tree with a red flash light during a long exposure) under the stars at driftwood beach on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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Astral Chorus of Cumberland

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Camping out on Cumberland Island in August 2016 allowed me to catch some of the magic of the Perseid meteor shower.
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East Beach Rising Moon

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Have you watched the full moon rising over the ocean at East Beach on Saint Simons Island? It's like a fairy tale. It's a moment you can't capture with your cell phone, but you'll always remember it. The scent of the salt air on the coastal Georgia breeze. The grit of the sand between your toes. Your lover's hand in yours, maybe the giggles of your children playing nearby. Nights on East Beach are full of sweet memories. Bring those memories home and hang them on the wall. Let the moon illuminate them. Listen for the waves. Can you hear them?

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Under the Stars on Tybee

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The Milky Way rises over the the pier on Tybee Island, Georgia.
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No Lifeguard on Duty

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A lifeguard stand sits vacant next to the column of the Milky Way on Tybee Island, Georgia.
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Star Light Star Bright

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Geminid meteor shower as seen from driftwood beach on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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Coastal Georgia Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse

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Amazing night skies over Brunswick, Georgia: the lunar eclipse of January 2019 fortunately occurred on a clear night for our area in coastal Georgia. Sprawled on my back, clothes smelling of smoke from our bonfire, I shot a series of images of the moonover 5 hours to capture the wonder of our solar system in motion. May this image bring to you the awe I felt witnessing the event.

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Saint Simons Lighthouse at Night

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The lighthouse on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, stretches its beams out into the night, keeping those on the water safe. Lighthouses symbolize the way forward: taking risks, going on adventures, and finding our way back home.

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Milky Way Over Driftwood Beach

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Starstruck: the beauty of Driftwood Beach at night under the Milky Way is unparalleled. The dark night skies of the Georgia Coast offer truly special photographic opportunities.

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