Lisa's Blog - A journal on art, design and photography

Preparing your images for publication

Lisa — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:32:47 +0000

Artists and galleries, you’ve been working hard. And one day a writer is going to call you. That writer might be someone like me. Someone calling to interview you for a feature article in a newspaper or magazine. That writer will schedule an interview to talk about your art and will take the next day [...]

Beginning Anew

Lisa — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:38:48 +0000

How does one start their life over again? I have no idea. I guess I’ll start by continuing to find a way to breathe. By getting out of bed every morning and putting one foot in front of the other. By caring for myself with bubble baths and kitten kisses and hopefully one day all [...]

philosophy’s amazing grace

Lisa — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:46:46 +0000

I’m a sucker for packaging. I can’t help it. One of my favorite fragances is philosophy’s amazing grace. Besides being a lovely scent, philosophy also included the following text on it’s package. I remember it whenever I wear amazing grace. I want to share philosophy’s philosophy with you: “how you climb up the mountain is [...]

Music – Piano III

Lisa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:53:03 +0000

Back to Black. Part of the music series. Please see more of my photos here in the Gallery. Also you can find my photos on Facebook, Flickr, and Google+

Music – Piano II

Lisa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:48:22 +0000

My son’s hands. From the music series. Again special thanks to Rachael Allen. Please see more of my photos here in the Gallery. Also you can find my photos on Facebook, Flickr, andGoogle+

Music – Piano I

Lisa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:36:16 +0000

As part of my music series, the piano was one of those special pieces I needed to complete the photo series. Thanks to Rachael Allen for allowing me to photograph her piano in her home. Please see more of my photos here in the Gallery. Also you can find my photos on [...]

How Photography Saved My Life

Lisa — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:40:55 +0000

My G+ profile description reads: Writer. Photography saved my life. The photography statement sounds rather dramatic doesn’t it? Despite the supposed histrionics, I believe the statement to be quite true and when photographer Helen Sotiriadis suggested I write a post about it, how could I say no? As is usually the case with big profound [...]

Wicked Witch of Westbrook – A photo essay process

Lisa — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:31:45 +0000

I spent many hours in my basement over this last weekend (a place which kind of creeps me out) pursuing a new photo essay which I titled the Wicked Witch of Westbrook. It’s been a valuable learning experience which has been not only tons of fun but it also found me dealing with many different [...]

Discovery of great minds

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:57:40 +0000

I remember when I first discovered blogs. I spent an entire week, nearly 18 hours a day, reading. I was giddy with the discovery that somehow I had tapped into a previously unknown online world of intelligence and talent. I was hungry for knowledge and expression and it seemed that with the discovery of these [...]

Gee Whiz G+

Lisa — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:37:20 +0000

I’ve been on Google+ for exactly one week and have logged some pretty serious hours learning and experimenting so that you don’t have to. While the platform is still in BETA and is fairly simple in scope, the more I got into it the more compelling it became and the more there was to learn. [...]