Category Archives: Inspirations

2014 Goals

Posted on January 6, 2014 | 3 comments

Since I managed to miss the time frame to reflect on the past year (ahem, possibly on purpose?) I decided to announce a few goals for 2014. It’s been very inspiring to read others’ goals so … ta-dah, here are mine!

2014 goals

Be more consistent with the tools I’ve found useful to stay organized and active

Continue improving and producing written work

  • Polish and submit novella (possibly cut to novelette length)
  • Participate in Codex Writers Weekend Warrior
  • Participate in Write1Sub1 monthly challenge
  • Participate in Liberty Hall flash challenges as inspired
  • Revise and submit story inventory

Put more effort into blogging

  • Post at least 12 entries here – one sub goal is to review those tools above that I found useful
  • Blog maintenance – check links and update sidebars
  • Post more on my recipe blog

Enjoy my family, my friends, my home and my city.

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Hope your year is productive and healthy, and you’ve set some achievable goals (if that’s your thing!)

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Historical Photographs

Posted on June 6, 2013 | 1 comment

I am fascinated by the early 1900s. Two websites I often browse for interesting historical photos are Shorpy.com and the Library of Congress (specifically the collection of Prokudin-Gorskii color plates). #SFWApro

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Shorpy Higginbotham, 1910

Shorpy.com is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. The website owners mine the Library of Congress for old photos, as well as accept photos from members and visitors – it has become a wonderful resource and is an interesting site to browse.

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Prokudin-Gorskii, 1910

I blogged about the Russian photographs when I first found them in the Boston Globe.  Prokudin-Gorskii created color images of people and landscapes in Russia over 100 years ago – prints made from his plates are truly impressive. He photographed the scene once with a red filter, once with a green filter, and then finally with a blue filter.  He then combined and projected them with filtered lanterns to create near-true color photographs. These photographs were taken before the Russian Revolution had begun.

I highly recommend browsing the LOC’s collection of his photographs  for an amazing trip through time. (skim through the collection to the thumbnails with colored borders to find the filtered ones)  We are so used to sepia photographs from years past.  Seeing them in color is striking.

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