There is just something about the season of autumn that makes me feel like starting new projects.

Please come visit KooKooNoodle. It’s my new blog all about home, family, and keeping it all together. I’ll still be writing I Speak Film, of course, but I wanted a place to put thoughts about life that don’t necessarily apply to photography, so KooKooNoodle was born.
What the heck does it mean?
“KooKooNoodle” is [...]

I found a great website called Moo. They print things from your images, such as stickers, note cards, and business/calling cards. You can upload images directly or even use your pictures from Flickr. I’m thinking about getting some stickers with images on them. I can think of a million uses for [...]

Looking for decorations for your kids’ rooms? Try hanging up photographs of pages from their favorite books. Unlike just framing cut-out pages from a book, taking pictures allows you to focus on part of an image and blow it up to whatever size you like (and you don’t wreck the book!). [...]

I’m terrible at writing thank you notes. Everyone in my family knows this. So when Chloe was born, I was daunted at the thought of all those thank you’s when I had a newborn to care for. But the camera was always in my hands in those early weeks, and I’m [...]

I’ve been playing with my diopters this week. Diopters are close-up glass filters that screw onto the front element of SLR Camera lenses. They allow you to focus really close-up on the subject without an expensive macro lens. I took a bunch of shots with different lighting configurations, and these were [...]

I’ve been on a knitting jag this winter. I’m working on my fourth sweater since the beginning of the year and there are no signs of my slowing down. I cannot, however, take credit for this great sweater Chloe is wearing (bought for her by Gran at April Cornell). But I [...]