Opinion & Review
A+ Education | Three Blogs To Browse
When I started in photography, I frantically hoarded blogs on Google Reader, as if some crucial bit of photography knowledge would slip through my fingers unless I stayed on top of those feeds!! As time passed, I found my mile-high mountain of blogs eroding down to some gems that consistently provide outstandingly useful, educational, and…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: It’s All About Brushing Your Teeth
I remember the moment with icy clarity. I was sitting in a Women in Science luncheon at a Very Fancy Hotel during a Very Important Science Conference. A panel of professional scientists was discussing work-life balance, and one woman cracked a joke that ended my career in research psychology: She said, “I think about data…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: Stop Confusing Hobbies with Passions
I admit I once grew tired of people telling me: “live your passion.” Of all the vague, dime-store psychology directives, that is possibly the least useful. What does it mean to ‘live your passion’? What is a passion? What would it look like to ‘live’ one? Cut the fluff. I need concrete steps, not poster-speak.…
Read MoreI Just Wanna Say One Thing Before Christmas…
Thank you. No really, THANK YOU. I’ll come out and say it – one year ago, things weren’t so peachy. I felt stuck, fenced in, cornered. I hated my alarm clock. I dreaded my to-do lists. But ever since I entered the ranks of the self-employed, important things have changed. Yes I’m usually scared spitless,…
Read MoreThe Beginning | Or “What the heck does psychology have to do with photography?!?”
When I left academic psychology and told people I was going into photography, I got a lot of slow blinks. I had plenty of time to ponder the question “What does psychology have to do with photography?” because it was thrown at me dozens of times. And my answer? EVERYTHING. Photography is fundamentally about people.…
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