Posts by: Karen

Short Story, Big Memory

Not so long ago, the hubs and I stood here on the shore of Silver Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. We took a week, got away from the hum of computers, emails and the madding crowd. Went into nature. Got up at 5am and beat the sun to the day. More than once.…

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Dark Tunnels & Memories

By this image, you could easily think I’m in some dark, “tortured artist” phase. But mais non! It is not true! Stopping Time One of the really cool things about photography is how you can stop time. We we all love the notion of frozen moments… captured for all eternity. Or at least until the…

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The Arcanum: Sandra Carlock

On Being a Master in The Arcanum Back when it all first started, I wrote a two-part blog post about what it meant to me to be a Master in The Arcanum, Magical Academy of Artistic Mastery. Click here for Part One Click here for Part Two. Now, some months later, amazing things have happened……

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Do I Really Have to Tell You?

Some Stuff I Like About This Photo Y’know what I like about this photo? The colors. The light. The tree. The clouds (lerrrrrv the clouds!). The way it looks like the tree is dreaming those clouds out of its dreamy little noggin. That it’s vertical. Just some stuff I like about it. It’s not a…

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As Heard on… KelbyOne!

When Worlds Collide Know what I love? (Stares out from your monitor into your eyes, expectantly) ‘Kay, I’ll tell ya. It’s when worlds collide with a great sheBANG and explode into kaleidoscope of color and sound! (Awesomest when said mashup involves photography.) Sometimes that actually happens in my life… like when I was asked to…

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The Process of Healing

Big, Fat Myth: Colds Are Common Whew! I think I’m back amongst the living now, after a bout with a beastly cold. Why do they make a “cold” sound so “common”, when you feel so UNcommonly miserable with one? “Blech!” I say. Of course, said beastly arrived 2 days before I had to fly home…

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Quick Chats & Croton-On-Hudson

As I sit here with a nasty code in by doze in NYC… getting ready to travel home tomorrow… I look back and marvel at all I got to experience whilst here in NYC over 2 short weeks! OK, I’m paying the price for it now, but I’m feeling like a very lucky girl right…

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