The Blog
Are you trying to Navigate a Creative Life? Need a bit of a boost with some Creative Fuel? Or are you interested in some Reflections on Photography in our modern world? If you’re an inquisitive sort, you might enjoy these stories of the Odd & Curious, or the Meanings of Colour or the physical and emotional aspects of a Sense of Place. Finally, there are posts in the Book Nook, not reviews as such, personal thoughts on books I love.
The Surprising Benefits of a Daily Routine
In the summer of 1982, I became a teenager. That same summer my parents announced they were separating and my dad was moving out. My world collapsed.
8 Alternative Holiday Reads Inspired by The White Lotus
Books can be armour. Or they can be a weapon, an escape, or a dream. They can make us weep or swear or laugh out loud. Books are powerful. In HBO's show, The White Lotus, books, specifically 'the holiday read' are there to impress.
Discover the Brave Women of Air and Space
The other morning when I walked the trail, I ended up walking in the other direction. I tend to walk the same trail most days. It's easy, it's near my house and it's beautiful. To change things up a bit, I sometimes decide to walk starting from the other direction. It's strangely discombobulating.
Every Picture Tells a Story
In researching an old family photograph, Tanya discovers a story of emigration from the north of England to Port Adelaide in South Australia in 1853.
Is One Picture Worth a Thousand Words?
A good few years ago, maybe ten, I made a piece of work for a photography festival in the seaside town where I lived called The Telling of Tall Tales. I have long been interested in stories and pictures, and how the two connect and support each other. No surprises there looking around this website.
This Unceded Land
The land on which I live is the unceded, shared land of the Coast Salish Peoples including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.