“Home” to Pakistan – Poem Reprint – Haiku Laziness and Out of Africa

One of the advantages of having had a blog for going on 8 years and switching platforms and even emphases from time to time, is that one can emulate the scribe that Jesus describes in Matthew 13:52 and bring out ‘new treasures as well as the old,’ only in this case that order is inverted [...]

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chiaroscuro : a photo / photography contrast for summer 2011

Italian, ‘light-dark.’ A term used to describe the effects of light and dark in a work of art, particularly when they are strongly contrasting. -The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms Well, it is high time The Dassler Effect hosted a photo contest. Check out the details here. Top prize this year? $125 and you [...]

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The lie of keeping it real – A review of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams

If you have not been reading this blog for long, and perhaps “reading” is an insufficient word here, perhaps you are confused whether it is a photo blog or a poetry blog or blog presenting prose pieces. The answer to this question is “Yes.” It is clear that photography takes up most of its real [...]

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Pocketbooth – Awesome App for Apple iPhones / iPod Touch

When you have owned your own photobooth rental business in which you converted old booths by programming digital cameras to do the shooting. When you have built up a considerable body of photobooth art and co-created the destination website for photobooths. When you have hosted a photoboorth art convention. What do you do for an [...]

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Summer Photo Contest! – The results are in!

The results are in for the Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer Photo Contest, but before the big reveal why not take a moment to meet the judges (you may want to visit their sites and give them a shout out), then have another look at the entries and see who took each shot. But [...]

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Helping Your Neighbor, Loving Your Enemies – Pakistan Flood Relief

When the Haiti earthquake occurred, the response in our country was immediate and overwhelming, and with good reason, as so many people lost their lives. The needs continue to be great and help should continue to flow. The response to the Pakistani flooding, though, in both dollars and attention, seems to be muted in comparison. [...]

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The Summer 2010 Photo Contest is Up!

The entries are in, and we have an unprecedented fifty-one! And competition is as fierce as the summer sun. The results will be out on Labor Day or whenever all the judges report in, whichever comes first. Good luck to all the contestants. Check it out!

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Summer Photo Contest Deadline in Less Than a Week

Midnight on August 8th, 2010. That’s the deadline for the chance to win up to $150 in the Dassler Effect’s summer photo contest, Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer, with no entry fee. Get them in!

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Some Words From Me on My Photography

A friend of mine, Sophie, who has a lovely blog on scrapbooking and crafting and family life and full of thoughtful writing, asked me to post some thoughts on my photography. You may check them out here, and then have a look around the rest of her blog. If you are here from there, welcome! [...]

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“Grief in the Age of Facebook,” a Fascinating Article

A friend of mine passed along this article to me as my local church community recently experienced the death of a friend and some of our grieving was expressed via Facebook. Our friend did not have a Facebook profile himself, as the very popular girl in the article did, so we did not have that [...]

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