My friend K. and I have had several successful photo excursion days. We get in the car and head out to …somewhere, not anywhere specific, to shoot photos of… something, nothing in particular. K. is a fine photographer and has been doing some nice work with a Lens Baby on his Nikon, I was psyched to try it out. I achieved very mixed results – my broader landscape shots are totally uninteresting, most of the tighter, smaller shots have no good focal point, many are overexposed as I was completely flummoxed by the metering.… continued…
Dunno about you, blogging readers, but lately, I find myself with questions. How do I get advertisers? Should I try to go to that trade show? Can I really spin the little vanity that is Nerd’s Eye View into an income earning proposition? Why, if everybody knows who I am and wants me to write for them, is my site traffic so tiny? And do I use too much hyperbole? (Okay, okay, never mind that last one, or the hyperbole in the one before.) For a person with their head full of such questions, it is handy to live in a city full of people grappling with similar questions.… continued…
Founder Knox Gardner points at the National Soup Swap map.
The original soup swap legend starts as follows: “In the dark times of the woolly sweater, nothing warms the soul as much as a bowl of home made soup…” Or, you know, something like that. Though it’s not so much the soul that’s warmed as the heart and the belly.
Soup Swap this year was the largest I’ve ever attended. A whopping 22 soups appeared in the middle of Dave and Carrie’s perfect new kitchen.… continued…
There are a few days left to enter the writing contest at Wanderlust and Lipstick.
The grand prize? A 15 day trip to Peru.
The judges? Well, I’m one of them. Impress me.
All the details? Here.
Good luck!… continued…
