By Emily on April 26, 2013
It’s that time of year again. Last year, I spent my tax refund on the Adobe Creative Suite. This year, after a whole lot of research, I finally decided to bite the bullet and use my tax refund to make another photo-centric purchase – a macro lens! Something I’ve been wanting for years. It was [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, Austin, photography | Tagged macro, photography, spring, Tamron 60mm macro, upclose
By Emily on February 22, 2013
Back for another installment (here’s part 1 for the backstory). After a day in Madrid with friends, it was time for the next stop of the whirlwind tour. I headed to Barcelona to meet up with two of my dearest friends: one who works for a tech company in Barça, and the other who flew [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, fiesta, moving, photography, travel | Tagged Barcelona, Casa Battló, Catalan, Cataluña, Gaudí, markets, Montjuïc, nostalgia, old friends, photography, Spain, wandering
By Emily on May 16, 2012
Something you lose in being mobile, a new city or even just a new neighborhood every couple of years, is the ability to judge the passage of time based on a handful of constants. My short walk to work over the past two years has changed very little. It’s not just that I could do [...]
Posted in Missoula, moving, seasons, things that make me smile | Tagged photography, quotidian, rhythm, seasons, the little things
By Emily on July 15, 2011
{Just full disclosure: wrote this last week before the computer/USB debacle. So finding and uploading the photos got a touch more complicated. But by then I had added the drop cap L, and…well, here we are.} ast night, after plans changed slightly from what I was anticipating, I came home and watched Annie Leibovitz: Life [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, photographer crush, photography | Tagged Annie Leibovitz, documentary, Netflix, photography, portraits
By Emily on June 17, 2011
Do you remember, back not so long ago, when most people had msn.com set as their homepage? And like cheesy women’s magazines, which are capable of convincing me, month after month, that their new relationship tips are actually new, msn.com was the master of the catchy headline. The articles, on the other hand, were almost [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, photography | Tagged journalism, msnbc, photography, rituals, the week in pictures
By Emily on April 20, 2011
“If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.” –Richard Avedon I came across this quote in a photography magazine a few weeks ago and, like some things are prone to do, it has [...]
Posted in Missoula, photography, seasons, things that make me smile | Tagged art, food photography, lecture, photography, process, RMSP
By Emily on December 31, 2010
While going through my Flickr postings for the year, trying to find something for their Your Best Shot 2010 group, I couldn’t help but reminisce…about all of the good food I’ve eaten in the past year. The rest of the photos in my stream bring back all kinds of memories, good and not so great, [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, adventures in cooking, colors, photography, seasons | Tagged food, photography, year in review
By Emily on October 22, 2010
Saw this and had to share it. via Pinterest on Pinterest I just joined Pinterest. And Polyvore. And I still use Diigo. Trying to get my overwhelming number of Firefox tabs under control. Happy Friday!
Posted in photography, things that make me smile | Tagged mouse, photography, Pinterest, teddybear
By Emily on September 26, 2010
As the leaves start to turn and fall, I find my eye constantly catching quiet moments that come with this time of year. For some reason, I’ve recently gotten away from having my camera with me all of the time, and now it seems like it’s time to start having it with me again. I’ve [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blog, design, new house, photography | Tagged contemplation, fall, Gourmet magazine, jeweltones, photography, shadows, time to take out the tripod
By Emily on September 6, 2010
I spend a lot of time online, and before I know it, I’ve got 25 tabs open in Firefox. I rarely have time to get through all of those links by the time I need to move on, and so I am constantly trying to figure out how to organize all of that newfound information. [...]
Posted in blog, photographer crush, things that make me smile | Tagged Blogging Your Way, Flickr, online portfolios, photographer crush, photography, series
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
