In all the hustle and bustle this time of year, it can seem impossible to remember to be grateful. But it’s necessary. In all honesty its pretty satisfying to be able to count your blessings when you make time. So today, I wanted to share with you what I am truly grateful for.
Getting to the print is invigorating, exhausting, time consuming and can make you feel a little bit like a bat and smell a lot like developer. Sometimes it's utter heck to get everything just right. I don't know how many hours I spent in the dark room but it was a lot. I'm guessing I probably easily spent 50 hours there last semester. Which is actually…
Today I wanted to share a little something about me. I probably shouldn't say little because the importance of my family to me is actually kind of a big deal. A huge deal. We all share certain things just based upon the fact that we're human and I'd like to think we all have loving, crazy families. I usually show my family photo album to new…
This past semester I had the opportunity to take a black and white photography class at NMSU. It's their introduction class as far as photography goes and I really enjoyed it! For those of you that have never developed film or printed in a dark room it's a pretty neat experience and I wanted to share this with you.
So here’s the deal. I know winter is cold. I get it. I know winter can be cruel. I know that there are tons of things that are very unromantic and dangerous even about winter. But I do love winter. There are small bits of magic privy only to this season. It only snowed one day at my house (which lets face it is actually pretty…
Heritage is like a belly button - everyone has one. Chances are yours' like mine is probably rooted in or has some association with agriculture. There are many names my people have adopted throughout the years. German-Russians. Russian-Germans. Russo-Germans. They are all synonymous with a populace espousing a very rich culture oftentimes overlooked in history books.
Everyone seems to be looking back over the previous year. To be fair, mine was supercalifragalisticexpalidoxious (is that how you spell it?). This was for many reasons, but one of the main ones was that In 2014 I discovered I loved photography.
Hi, it's nice to meet you! My name's Lauren. Lover of bad 90's movies, green chile and proud Furbaby Momma.