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Being Karen

"All that lives, lives forever. Only the shell, the perishable, passes away. The spirit is without end, eternal, deathless."
- Bhagavad Gita

"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky"
- Ojibwe Proverb

listening to: Donovan, CocoRosie, Patrick Watson

My Poetry

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  • i'm sorry
    don't look
    the linens need changing again
    12 lines, June 16. In Thoughts, Dark, Sad, Personal
  • je ne dit riens
    she wonders what to do with her life
    in a world of ringtones and onion rings
    22 lines, October 24, 2008. In personal
  • helen's flower
    Yesterday, was a revelation / I saw the world unfurl in a moment / of nationalism and cartoons, / and mosquitoes in the cedars / but all I
    14 lines, May 5, 2007
  • 40-love
    she tries to read the future / in the glare of a lightning bug / divining yesterday's flavour / from today's special / / set-match / / he's watching, subtle grey ghost / his cloud
    21 lines, 1 comment, April 25, 2007. In personal

My Stories

Guest Book

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  • on March 31, 2006
    Hi! You are too kind! It was lot of fun and a great contest. Made me think of that great work by Aldous Huxley 'Cleansing the Doors of Perception.' Dave (Caliban)
  • epitaph-macabre on March 16, 2006
    i like your page
  • Being Karen on March 15, 2006
    Eric -- thanks kindly for your compliments. I use a Nikon D50 dSLR mostly. My best advice is to get a camera that has the most manual control can find -- manual shutter speed, manual focus, etc. Doesn't matter if it's digital or film (although they both have advantages and disadvantages i.e. with digital you can see the image right away and discard it if you don't like, but you'll never get quite the same 'fee' as with a film camera (although they are getting better) and all the development tricks happen post production, so you need to be verse in photoshop to manipulate your images. With film, you have almost unlimited degrees of artistic control with the settings of the camera, and the final product can't be mimicked with digital, but you don't get to see your image right away to know if it's a flub or not, and you have to have a darkroom to have any sort of post-production control over your images).

    The best advice I can give you, aside from all my inane babbling about the pros and cons of dig. and film, is to grab any camera and start practicing. Start looking at things as if you would frame them -- details, moments, aspects of design, emotions -- opportunities are endless.

    And love it!

    cheers
  • Eric Nunnally on February 22, 2006
    Karen,

    I was looking at some of your pics posted on your homepage and wondered if you could give me some photography advice. I love the crispness of the shots as well as your eye. What kind of camera(s) do you use? Film? Best advice?

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