How I See Life

We interrupt these trip pictures to bring you a magazine cover!

Kari — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:49:03 +0000

Back in May, I got my first paid photography job — photographing some San Francisco-related things for a cover and the cover story for the magazine The Bourbon Review. Go me! Here’s a link to the article (opens a PDF)–the pictures on pages 1, 4, and 6 are mine, as is the shoreline one on page 5. SWEET!! Many thanks to Josh, who offered me the chance to do this!! :-)

Summer 2010 cover. Josh, is this where I get in my dig about being right about lining the picture up horizontally rather than vertically? ;-)

I caught you a partridge, but I eated it

Kari — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:30:44 +0000

In case you don’t get the reference in the post title, it’s this internet meme.

A veterinarian friend of mine is holding a 12 Days of Petmas roundup on her blog, and I volunteered to take Day 4 (4 calling birds, in case you don’t remember the song.) So this evening I decided to take some pictures… I’m not sending her this one, but it’s my favorite of the outtakes… The aftermath.

Cat + Christmas Tree = bad news. The white thing he's munching on is a twin of the white bird in the foreground.

So much for that partridge in a pear tree.

My first ever blog giveaway contest

Kari — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:34:16 +0000

This is my 100th post!! :-) And in honor of my 100th post, I thought I’d do a silly giveaway, just for the heck of it.

It’s not anything REALLY interesting–more something I thought would be fun. Post a comment on this post guessing how many pictures total you think I took in Rome (NOT how many I’ll actually be uploading to Flickr.) When I’m done posting all of my Rome pictures to this blog (I’m aiming for next Friday as my deadline for that) I’ll reveal the actual number. Whoever is closest will get a framed 8×10 of their choice of any of my pictures I have on my Flickr (doesn’t just have to be of my Rome trip–pick your favorite.)

I’ll give you a hint–I took a LOT of pictures. Entirely too many… hence the reason it’s going to take me until the end of next week to get them all online. :-) Also, since Kim asked, I was there from 11/22 to 11/29.

(And Joel!, even though you were there, feel free to guess–I’m curious how close you’ll be.) :-)

(Edited to add: I seem to have broken whatever it is on my site that gives a comment link on each post on the front page. If any of you can help me figure out what I broke and help me fix it, I’d be eternally grateful…) :-p

Wednesday weekly challenge

Kari — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:00:06 +0000

I keep meaning to do this, but I haven’t been, so I figured now is a good time to start. Every Wednesday a message board I’m on has a weekly photography challenge, and each week has a different subject. Sometimes I go out and take new pictures, and sometimes I recycle old ones, depending on time and inspiration. This week’s theme is graves and cemeteries, and we’re allowed to enter up to three entries. Here are my three for this week.

A child's grave at Sac City Cemetery.

Last changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Unknown Civil War soldiers interred at Arlington National Cemetery.