Month: August 2016

Coasting Along

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After 17 months of planning, saving, decluttering, and taking more than one big leap into totally unknown territory, I finally made it to the coast. My whole vagabond vision was something like “me at the coast, taking beach walks every day” and it didn’t really get much more definite than that. Yeah, I know, there are national parks in Utah and deserts and canyons all over to see, but those weren’t what drove me forward all these months. I’m a water baby at heart, and the coastal waters are where I need to be right now as I figure out how…

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Done.

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My first job: babysitting three little boys and two German Shepherds every other week in the summer. I don’t know which I liked less, the diapers or the dog poop. So there it was, at the age of 13: work involves shit. #Truth I worked my way up the employment food chain in high school and college: tutor, camp counselor, library clerk, and my first job after college, a VISTA volunteer. I was almost a year out of college and was library clerking to pay the rent when I saw the ad that literally changed my life. A high-tech company was looking for…

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100 Days of Alto

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This is a perfect day to look back on my first 100 days of becoming a vagabond. It’s sunny, short-sleeves-and-shorts weather, a nice breeze, and a mostly empty campground. Just me, the butterflies, the occasional horse on the path the other side of the fence, and cars coming and going down the road. 100 days ago, I was at Safari Condo, nervously picking up the trailer I had waited 15 months for. I really had no idea what I was in for. Not a freaking clue. I knew this vagabond life decision would change my life, but I really didn’t…

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Water Views

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Between shutter speeds and apertures, you can have a lot of fun when photographing water water. Well, I can, at least. Here’s one example where I kept slowing down the shutter speed as I took the same shot three times. In this first image, things were pretty close to “water moving along” speed. Slowing it down a bit, the water starts to look silky in spots. And at the slowest speed, with my camera set on a rock and using a 3-second timer to minimize shaking from when I pushed the shutter button, I got this shot, then converted it to sepia…

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