Confessions of a Curious Camera

Is Confessions still alive?

So…I obviously took a break from my blog for a bit. It took me a while to understand why:

I let it become a job and that robbed it of its fun.

My first idea was to take some ‘Make a Bazillion Dollars with a Blog’ course that someone sells, after being sucked in by the freebie. Man, was I going to make tons of money with it. I still can. But that really is not who I am. It’s not what I’m about as…

Buying Local @ Farmers Markets

Growing up, my Granny would take me to thrift stores, flea markets, and the farmers market. They were always fun and interesting. I love to go through places like these for cool finds, and now I take my grandchildren to these fun shops. The farmers market is the one we visit the most.

We have several farmers markets in the Oklahoma City metro. I frequent OSU-OKC because it is closer than the…

When planting gardens to create a living painting, one major consideration is whether a plant is an annual or a perennial. Most stores label the plants and usually have them separated. At a farmer’s market, though, be sure to ask if they are not labeled. So, what do those terms mean and why are they important when planning a garden?

The main difference is in blooming time and return growth.…

Photography is fun. It is so much more than portraits or documenting a vacation. It has life. It has meaning. Its only limitations are the ones we place on it. I like to play around with my camera and in doing so, I found what I call Starbursts.

It’s really simple. I set a long exposure time. Then, when I find my subject and am focused on it, I click the button while turning the lens all the way…

Greetings readers. Today’s post is going to be simple since I’ve been under the weather! So please enjoy these photos & quotes. I’ll be back with more confessions very soon!

“She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world – She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable weather She wouldn’t adjust her purpose for things that pass.”

― Nikki Rowe

“As the years pass, I am…

Am I the only one who looks for four-leaf clovers? Surely not. But even so, I believe I have an advantage…I let it grow wild and free in my yard and gardens. I have three types of clover growing in my yard and each plant is completely different in root structure, leaf, and flower. They serve three main functions for my wild yard and living painting: to be a ground cover, to attract bees &…

Two Hotspots for Kids in St. Louis

 St. Louis is a fun city with a lot to do downtown. The St. Louis Cardinals’ call downtown home where Busch Stadium is located. The Hard Rock Café is located in a shopping mall and a little-known kids’ attraction, City Museum, is just around the corner. Of course, the famous St. Louis Gateway Arch is downtown by the river as well. The two kid-friendly spots we loved the most were the Arch and…

She Walks in Beauty

My favorite poem is She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron. I’m enchanted by its prose, how it evokes emotion by comparing dark and light to her features. She seems to take ordinary, and somewhat dark peacefulness and turns it into eloquent beauty that endears the writer, or reader, to her.

I immediately think of art and how this applies to my life through photography, gardening, and traveling…taking…

Free Comic Book Day, 2018

(photos are from Free Comic Book Day, 2018) Comic books are a fond childhood memory of mine. Wonder Woman (of course!), The Bionic Woman, and Richie Rich were my favorites. For years, my Granny bought me one almost every weekend that I was with her. If only I’d known then to keep them, but you know what they say about hindsight being 20/20 and all…

As an adult, I did collect again (and keep…

Cilantro: The Salsa Superstar

With a strong, earthy aroma and taste, cilantro is a popular herb for many recipes. Growing it, though, produces two types of seasonings for your dishes. Cilantro is the Spanish name for the plant, which is what most Americans call it. However, it is also known as coriander. You guessed it; coriander seeds come from this plant.

Cilantro is a perennial herb. This means that it will come back…

National DNA Day, 2018

National DNA Day was celebrated on April 25th. Didn’t know about it? Most people don’t. However, fun & random days like this happen every single day and are great learning and exploring tools for topics we might not otherwise consider.

DNA is officially known as deoxyribonucleic acid but is known to most people as the molecular recipe to who you are as a person. Each person’s DNA recipe has…

Top 3 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 1970, was the first Earth Day, which was initiated to bring awareness to environmental preservation, including clean air and clean water. Due to this awareness, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act were created, reducing smog and regulating disposal of toxic waste.  Earth Day also helped launch recycling as a global initiative to combat waste.

But how can we make Earth Day a day of…

Pinhole Cameras and the Birth of Photography

One of the most interesting classes I took for my photography degree was History of Photography. I am not going to go into the history of photography here, although I do love it immensely. However, I am going to discuss one of the earliest and most fascinating processes: pinhole photography.

A pinhole camera (also known as camera obscura) is nothing more than a camera with an actual pinhole,…