From the category archives:

my opinion

It is true, I have an Android phone and still post some of my “phone-tos” to Instagram. The reason I do this is, for over a year now the majority of my phone shots went into a Facebook album where no one but friends could see them and no prints or magnets or books or fun things [...]

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Pinterest, you had me at hello.

by sesame on February 22, 2011

All my life I have been a magazine ripper-outer. As a kid, I would sit at the table and pull things I wanted out of the Sears catalog as a visual wish list. As I grew and developed a love of photography, I would tear inspirational images out of all sorts of publications. To this [...]

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With work on our book in full swing, I have been thinking about documenting family life through photography a lot lately.  I have always been one to carry my camera with me almost all the time and my D3 has never seen the inside of a closet…it is always out and ready to go.  With the book work taking [...]

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the lensbaby tag line is “see in a new way” and i am finding it easy to do just that. this lens really does transform the mundane into simple beauty. it is nice to be free from a self imposed sense of precision in my images. and to see the hidden perfection in the imperfect. [...]

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lensbaby has generously given me a lensbaby composer lens to review and work with.  i am so excited to add this unique dimension to my work and i am taking the blog along with me as i learn something new. i have long admired the work that deb schwedhelm and jefra linn have done with [...]

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the sigma 24mm f/1.8 macro lens (for my nikon d3) arrived this afternoon while the twins were napping and my camera battery was charging.  i loved having a wide angle lens when i shot with film, but i sold it many years ago.  this was a range that i was missing from my equipment and [...]

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i have heard it all.  from various people.  however differently they said it, they all meant the same thing… the twins are too old for bottles. thank you to the many strangers who have preached to offered me advice, i think it is wonderful that your child was drinking from a regular cup in utero. [...]

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*all images in this post are made with the new diana toy camera lens on my d200* one of these is my house and if you guess wrong, you don’t know me at all. just to help you out in case it was not completely obvious since moving to australia, i seem to have the [...]

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santa drives a delivery van

by sesame on December 21, 2009

early in the day, the postman delivered my belated birthday toy from photojojo. with big plans to release my unintentional psychological grip on perfect photos (what is a perfect photo anyway?), i put it on the d200 and got the twins ready to join the big kids at the park. i will have to do [...]

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peta makes magic

by sesame ellis on July 20, 2009

yes she does. i have seen her do it.

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