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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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writers in the schools, and declaring yourself a writer
Karen WalrondMay 2, 2011 Comments
single shot saturday
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one
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gratitude
Karen WalrondApril 28, 2011 Comments
on taking the bull by the horns
Karen WalrondApril 27, 2011 Comments
occasionally technical tuesday: how i take portraits
Karen WalrondApril 26, 2011 Comments
random thoughts: magnolias, ixoras and other cultural symbols
Karen WalrondApril 25, 2011 Comments
single shot saturday
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planting dandelions, the beauty of different and a giveaway
Karen WalrondApril 22, 2011 Comments
no doubt it's unfolding as it should
Karen WalrondApril 21, 2011 Comments
list #20: my travel survival kit
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occasionally technical tuesday: how to pack like a photographer
Karen WalrondApril 19, 2011 Comments
thoughts on returning from the big easy
Karen WalrondApril 17, 2011 Comments
single shot saturday
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the beauty of different podcast, episode #4: photographing kids, featuring cameron rafati
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love thursday: to jen
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I love this week between Christmas and New Year’s, don’t you? It’s just so much QUIETER: no shopping needs to be done, no pressure to entertain, no reason to hustle. Bliss.

So tonight, Marcus and I are going out for dinner, just us
I MADE THIS FOR YOU. 

Over the last month, I’ve spent hours every day planning out the immediate future of my work and my career to fully encapsulate my word of the year for 2026:

KINSHIP. 

This led to the design of an entirely new website:
Happy Christmas from our house to yours! 🌴🎄
"A few weeks ago, I mentioned I was going to take the entire month of December off: I’d just come off of book tour, and I was in lovely, Christmas-y Bath, so the thinking was that I’d spend lazy days with mugs of tea and relaxing mus
 

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