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First lessons

June 11, 2010 One Comment

First lessons

Let me start by saying this: I did think through what it would take to spend multiple days traveling and interviewing. I imagined the exhaustiion of spending hours in the car, getting out to meet various new people and talk with them for an unspecified amount of time, eating on the road, sleeping on couches [...]

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Road Trips

June 9, 2010 2 Comments

Road Trips

It turns out that the hardest part about a road trip is driving away.  Taryn and I have been trying to make plans, set appointments, develop contacts and schedules and routes, but ultimately determined that we just needed to drive away.  Leave town now or never start this project. But, of course, there was much [...]

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and so it begins

I’m sorry to say you haven’t missed anything since we last posted. We’ve had two weddings each of the last two weekends and I think we were asking too much of ourselves when it came to pre-planning. But tomorrow is the big day. We’re headed out tomorrow afternoon after we pack up the car and [...]

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Making friends

Every time we encounter people who are not in our family, Kendra tells Hadley something like, “Are you ready to go see our friends?” Yesterday she said this when we were on our way to drop Hadley off at a drop-in daycare so we could have a few hours of productivity. Since Kendra’s a stay-out-home [...]

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Mapping!

May 26, 2010 No Comments

Mapping!

Today began with a brief photo training session. Kendra tried to show me the subtle differences in aperture and white balance. I’m afraid it’s going to take a lot more practice for me to see it, but for now it’s fun to mess with settings. Chasing Hadley with a camera won’t get old any time soon, either. [...]

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Finding the Essence

Construction paper, markers, and stickers covered half the table when I sat down to write our first post. “A project! She likes to do projects,” Kendra said about Hadley. A project. Perfect. This is a project. This is the pursuit of the dream we have to combine our passion for people and art in a [...]

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