Photography

How Disposable Cameras are Educational for Kids. Top Story - July 2026.

Do you have a budding Annie Leibovitz or Ansel Adams on your hands? Kids love to take pictures, and disposable cameras can be a great learning tool for them.

My Year, in Prattling and Photos. Top Story - January 2026.

It's been a year since... last year. Ironically, it seems I've found myself a new tradition of getting sick during the New Year holidays. At least, this year (that is, this inter-year period remarkable for its shiny decorations in the streets and houses, and closed supermarkets and pretty much everything), I'm doubtlessly doing better: I've managed to come visit my friends in Germany for Christmas (which I failed to do last year) and—after having some good quality time eating machanka, playing Munchkin and swinging machetes (the last one obviously crept into this checklist only for the sake of the phonological form)—I came back home via proverbial Deutche Bahn and probably less known Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, my body hosting a family of viruses, virions and who knows what other tiny critters somewhere inside my chest.

I Keep on Failing. Top Story - April 2025.

We set ourselves an expectation that your failures should be minimal as you progress in your career. Surely, the more skilful you are, the less you fail.

My Winter Wonderland. Top Story - January 2025.

I love snow. I've come to learn that it's not a popular opinion among adults in my part of the world. And I do understand why. It causes a lot of problems: slick roads, downed power lines, roof damages. It also slows everything down. But I think I rather appreciate that part. I also think it's beautiful. I'm of the mindset that if it's going to be freezing outside it might as well look pretty.

The Pounds' Sterling. Top Story - January 2025.

This is the last picture I took of my mom before the doctors started playing Mrs. Potato Head with her through brain surgeries and radiation that killed everything except, her. That’s why it's on my childless cat lady fridge as one of my favorite moments, even though we had many, many favorite moments since that picture.

Take a hike!. Top Story - January 2025.

A few brief years ago our merry group set off to climb a ‘mountain’. Tabletop Mountain — in S.E. Queensland — is no Everest, but it was challenge enough for us. Spring’s searing sun was already high when we abandoned our cars at its base. As the track was neither marked nor maintained, we were grateful to a chirpy, fit teenager climbing with us. Having completed the hike on a previous occasion, she agilely scampered up the incline, calling encouragement down to us. We would have been clueless without her guidance.

Elka the Fairy Princess and the Giant Snowman. Top Story - December 2024.

Very often, Auntie-And-I time with my niece is like looking at a miniature version of myself from *mumble mumble* decades ago.

The Magic of a Big Mound of Dirt. Runner-Up in Through the Lens Challenge. Top Story - August 2024.

My stomach is tight. I haven't done this in a while. I light my first joint and fiddle with my camera even though it's already set up the way I like it. I ask the model about her day. The model is a friend of a friend. Her skin glows. She walks with a sense of coiled and casual power. She both does and doesn't know how beautiful she is. Her hair falls in soft curls. The white, linen dress she chose for our photoshoot tangles with her ankles in the wind. We slow down and scope out our first location: a tree next to the old Hooters of our hometown downtown.

We are England

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