Posts Tagged With "themes"

5 Photo Themes to Get You Better Vacation Pics

photography, travel & holidays »

[25 Jul 02012 | 315 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

It’s easy to go out on an otherwise well-planned vacation, take lots of photos, then come home… only to realize that every picture you took was that same old snapshot. I’ve done this. You’ve done this. We’ve all done …

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5 Blogging Tips for the Travelling Blogger

blogger, meta & methods, travel & holidays »

[23 Jul 02012 | 590 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

I’ve found that some of the most interesting — at least personally — writing that I’ve done is the blogging I did while travelling. Way back on some of my pre-blog, post-University travels I kept a fairly robust travel journal. …

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7 Tricks to Help You Write More Posts for Your Blog

blogger, meta & methods, writing »

[20 May 02012 | 538 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

Sunday afternoon on a long weekend and what am I doing? Well, apart from some (perhaps) deserved rest-time after a grueling morning run followed by a couple hours in the sun planting the rest of my garden, I’m writing the second …

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Four Reasons My Photo-A-Day Project is (Probably) Better Without Themes

photography »

[10 Nov 02011 | 313 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

This is a cross-post with my photo-per-day blog: Pixlated.
I’ve pretty much decided I don’t like photo themes. On the very last day of my second attempt at a “themed week” for my photo-per-day project, I’m feeling decidedly stifled by my chosen …

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PhotoFixations (the sequel post)

photography »

[2 Aug 02011 | 344 views | less than a minute of your time ]

I took a lot of photos this weekend. A lot. Hundreds and hundreds. And it was sorta in response to the photofrustations post late last week… and then sorta just because there were lots of things to photograph this weekend: …

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Photo-Folio

photography »

[10 Aug 02009 | 595 views | less than a minute of your time ]

No one has really asked to where that photoshoot challenge disappeared. But alas, that’s how these things fade away sometimes.
Rather than resurrect the contest as it were, I decided — amidst as I am a two month flurry of photographic endeavors …

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midnight scripters

writing »

[31 Oct 02003 | 159 views | less than a minute of your time ]

I’d say “wish me luck” but I think I’ll need more than that. How many words is fifty-thousand, again?

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just couldnt resist

art & code, writing »

[23 Oct 02003 | 135 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

There is something about history books that makes so many people cringe. The interesting thing is that this reputation just used-to-be true. There are a whole lot of really good history books out there. For example, Karin bought me a book on mathematical history, a (literally) rivetting read on the story behind trying to solve Fermats Last Theorem. Sounds dry, but anyone with any (even vague) interest in science would read it like the latest legal drama from whats-his-name.

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an evening amidst clowns

city & culture, gamer, opinions & venting, weird & whimsical »

[17 Jul 02003 | 116 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I could tell you more about the show: about how my mouth dried out because I sat there with my jaw on the ground the whole evening.

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