The Best 3 Photography Tips I Was Given

When I first got into pho­tog­ra­phy, I had no clue what I was doing. I didn’t read any book, didn’t take any classes. I sim­ply lis­tened to my instinct, try­ing to cap­ture moments, more or less suc­cess­fully. Most of what I learned was by trial and error. I trained with a small Kodak Easyshare and even­tu­ally allowed myself to grad­u­ate to a DSLR when pho­tog­ra­phy became a true passion.

The Lonely Immigrant

Immi­grants I’m in con­tact with often men­tion how chal­leng­ing it is to make new friends in their adop­tive coun­try. Sure, we can stay con­nected with “home” eas­ily through the Inter­net and social web­sites made it eas­ier to keep in touch. But meet­ing new peo­ple in real life can be tricky at first. I know. I’ve been there.

How to Avoid... Identity Theft

Of all the frauds and scams around, iden­tity theft is prob­a­bly one of the scari­est of all. It’s sneaky and the con­se­quences can be huge, not to men­tion that clear­ing the whole mess up can be Kafkaesque. How to prove that some­one else assumes your iden­tity? How to prove that you are not respon­si­ble for your fraud­u­lent alter ego’s actions? The con­se­quences of this crime can be felt for years.

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Happy birth­day to me!

Still no white hair (although it got bleached by the sun dur­ing our last trip).
Still no plan other than the usual—writing, tak­ing pic­tures, trav­el­ing.
Still freez­ing my butt off in Canada, the coun­try that adopted me.