by Vivian Keithley | Sep 9, 2018 | General
This post may contain affiliate links and I may earn a small commission when you click on the links at no additional cost to you. Rest assured, I only share links to products I would use myself. Happy reading! Like many people, I love that blurry background look with...
by Vivian Keithley | Sep 9, 2018 | General
If you ever use Divi to create WordPress, you may have noticed that the social media icons don’t redirect the target to a new tab. That bugs me like no other! Any time I take a user to an external site via a link from my site, I use a _blank target to open the...
by Vivian Keithley | Sep 9, 2018 | General
This morning I realized something. It wasn’t something that had just appeared in my head out of nowhere. Instead, it was a manifestation of bits and pieces that have been floating in and out of my head for the past eight years. Even before that, my body has been...
by Vivian Keithley | Sep 3, 2018 | General
A couple weeks ago, I attended an Artists’ Guild photography meeting and had the opportunity to shoot with studio lights. In addition to playing around with ISO, shutter speed, and aperture, I learned about white balance. For this particular photo shoot, I...
by Vivian Keithley | Aug 20, 2018 | General
After completing the photo shoot earlier this month, I decided I needed to learn more about how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO work together as well as practice walking through manual adjustments for particular scenes. Today, Miles served as my puppy model for...
by Vivian Keithley | Aug 19, 2018 | General
A fellow photographer was kind enough to give me the opportunity to tag along with her on an engagement shoot with her sister Elizabeth and her fiancé Teddy. It was fun seeing the logistical parts of a photo shoot at play, ranging from prop gathering to pest control... by Vivian Keithley | Jul 31, 2018 | General
This past month, I have taken on more freelance work than usual and have consequently had the opportunity to work with a greater variety of clients. Generally speaking, I’ve been pretty lucky with clients since starting my freelancing journey a little over eight...
by Vivian Keithley | Jun 20, 2018 | General
“…every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you’re experiencing is the last time.” -100 Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi This is...
by Vivian Keithley | Jun 19, 2018 | General
One morning during reading class, I held up a book for my 4th grade students that had a big picture of Pluto across the cover. I read the book to my students as if it were any other non-fiction read aloud. In elementary school, students are taught that non-fiction...
by Vivian Keithley | Apr 16, 2018 | General
Imagine you bought a delicious loaf of fresh bread. Once you got back home from the store, you were pulling it out along with the rest of the groceries… when suddenly, your cat skidded across the counter, and the bread ended up on the floor! That darn cat! Well,...
