Category Archives: photo and thoughts

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful Monotones

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Helen C

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful Monotones I often study clouds, trees… anything in front of me, wondering if my mother has left me a message somewhere. Isn’t that how we communicate… between the two worlds?

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One Photo Focus Challenge

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Helen C

Once a month, Stacy at Visual Venturing has this One Photo Focus challenge. She would pick a photo, and everyone would edit and submit it back to her, and then she would post all the editing results on her blog. … Continue reading →

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My 1000 Photos Project

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Helen C

I have mentioned that I wanted to start a new project on my recent post Scottsdale Trip, Blogging, and My New Project. At that time I called it “Look! You are Beautiful”. My goal was to take photos of many … Continue reading →

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To Crop or Not to Crop

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Helen C

I read somewhere that most women prefer to take close up pictures and men are opposite. Between my husband and me, this is quite true. When he hands his photos to me, most of the time, the first thing I … Continue reading →

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Re-Post “A Happy Day”

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Helen C

At Amy’s (The World is a Book) recent post Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Catching People Unaware, she asked if I would re-post the story I wrote about taking photos of a lady at a Chinese grocery store. I didn’t know … Continue reading →

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A Practice Run at Root River Park

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Helen C

I didn’t tell you that I had taken many disappointing photos on my Arizona trip. The composition, the color… they all good to my standard, but the noise were unbearable. Looking at those photos, my first thought was to get … Continue reading →

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Catching People Unaware

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Helen C

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Catching People Unaware When we arrived at Taliesin West, I told myself to pay attention to the tour guide this time. I thought while taking photos, I could still listen. After all, I don’t use my … Continue reading →

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Scottsdale Trip, Blogging, and My New Project

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Helen C

First, I want to tell you that I love Otto’s post Humanity Captured. Ha ha… Seriously, I have written several posts on what I have learned at Otto’s workshop. It was through that workshop I’ve built my foundation of photographing … Continue reading →

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Passion, Purpose and an Ah-Ha Moment – Part 2

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Helen C

While I was still pondering on passion, Otto posted another thought-provoking article Finding Purpose. By the way, if you are interested in these subjects like I do, I highly recommend you go read Otto’s articles… on second thought, even if … Continue reading →

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Passion, Purpose and an Ah-Ha Moment – Part 1 Passion

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Helen C

On Jan. 26 Otto posted a thought-provoking article titled Pursuing Passion. After reading it, and giving it a lot of thoughts, I started feeling uneasy. What qualifies something as a person’s passion? Do I have a passion? I left Otto … Continue reading →

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