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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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aging british punk (6/365)
aging british punk (6/365)

This is what a British ex-punk looks like. Before and after.

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familyKaren WalrondJanuary 6, 2013#photo365, marcus, punk Comments
vic's house (5/365)
vic's house (5/365)

My friend Victoria's home.

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friends, placesKaren WalrondJanuary 6, 2013home, Victoria, #photo365, cozy house Comments
alex (4/365)
alex (4/365)

First portrait of the year (and the January playlist).

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familyKaren WalrondJanuary 4, 2013#photo365, january playlist Comments
a photography resolution, of sorts (3/365)
a photography resolution, of sorts (3/365)

I'm not big on resolutions, so this is as close I get:  on quantity and quality.

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big plansKaren WalrondJanuary 3, 2013phone photography, photography Comments
holy toledo!
holy toledo!

This past weekend, I went to Toledo.  It was like walking into the set of A Christmas Story.

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friends, family, placesKaren WalrondJanuary 2, 2013toledo, ohio, toledo museum of art, christening Comments
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Karen WalrondJanuary 1, 2013#photo365Comment
on starting your own #photo365 project
on starting your own #photo365 project

Someone mentioned to me that they'd like to start a personal project where they take a photo a day for 2013.  Here are a few tips to get started.

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big plansKaren WalrondDecember 31, 2012iphoneography, #photo365, photography Comments
best of 2012:  october - december
best of 2012: october - december

Finally, my favourite shots from the end of 2012.  There was a lot to be grateful for.

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Karen WalrondDecember 31, 2012year en, year in Comments
best of 2012:  july - september
best of 2012: july - september

I'm sharing my favourite photographs of 2012.  This is what summer looked like.

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Karen WalrondDecember 30, 2012year end Comments
best of 2012:  april - june
best of 2012: april - june

I'm sharing my favourite photographs of 2012.  Here's what spring looked like.

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Karen WalrondDecember 29, 2012year in review, year end Comments
best of 2012:  january - march
best of 2012: january - march

I'm sharing my favourite photos of 2012.  Here's January, February and March.

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Karen WalrondDecember 28, 2012year in review, year end Comment
merry christmas, happy holidays, happy new year
merry christmas, happy holidays, happy new year

Taking a bit of a holiday break. But before I go, thank you.

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big plansKaren WalrondDecember 21, 2012holiday break, auld lang syne, christmas, holidays, gratitude Comments
from the archives:  alex's birth story
from the archives: alex's birth story

I wrote this 8 years ago. 

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familyKaren WalrondDecember 21, 2012adoption, alex, birth story Comments
houston area women's center, at&t, and finding joy
houston area women's center, at&t, and finding joy

This week, I got to play Santa on AT&T's behalf -- except I feel like I was the one who got the gift.

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big plansKaren WalrondDecember 20, 2012go mighty, houston area women's center, domestic violence, at&t, sexual violence Comments
random thoughts:  knowing when it's time
random thoughts: knowing when it's time

Random thoughts inspired by my Christmas cactus.

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random thoughts, placesKaren WalrondDecember 18, 2012christmas time, random thoughts Comments
create.2013!
create.2013!

My new offering: join me in a creative, reflective, art-filled course to begin the new year!

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big plansKaren WalrondDecember 17, 2012create.2013 Comments
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"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
"I’ve been back in Houston for a week, and it’s been one of those weeks where it feels like it’s flown, and also lasted at least few months. You know those weeks? Like, I can’t believe it’s already Friday; also, was
"As I walked around the stalls looking at the work of all sorts of artisans — woodworkers, potters, knitters, bakers, butchers, cheesemongers, to name just a few — I thought, well, here’s one deeply European custom that America
 

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