One of the challenges photographers face is understanding “white balance” — basically, rendering color correctly under various types of light. There are many good descriptions out there of this. Here’s Ken Rockwell, for instance: Different kinds of light require different …
Adorable Child and her friends frequently tell Polimom stories about incidents and interactions in their middle-school (and high-school) worlds. Sometimes the stories are funny… but far more often — and ever-more frequently — they’re not. I can’t remember ever sharing …
Wow. From Ozark, Arkansas: According to a police report, the officer was called to the home by the mother and witnessed the child kicking and screaming. The officer’s statement said the girl’s mother, Kelly Hamlert, told him to use a …
The other day in the car, Adorable Child, her friend, and I were talking about American Idol this season. We all agreed that this year’s not worth watching (AC and I aren’t following it at all), and that last year …
GAH! Hahaha. That takes me back to jr. high in the scariest of ways, but it’s a great shot.