Doing professional photography of Portland’s most excellent services can be pretty eye-opening–I get a behind-the-scenes look at the painstaking time, care, and detail that goes into what local professionals do in their work. I recently got to work with professional makeup artist and licensed esthetician, Nadia, on photos of her ever-expanding services for Threading and Eyelash Extensions. I’d heard a lot about eyelash extensions...
I spent a large part of this past weekend attending my very first Penny Arcade Expo, affectionately known as PAX. A couple of my amazing friends had asked me about going to the convention a couple months back, and when I realized I’d have some extra money kicking around, I spontaneously decided to join them for the weekend. I could wax poetic for hours...
After being in Beijing for even a short while, you realize there are more than a few things that you take for granted in the U.S. These are just two of them. Potable water. We were all informed that we shouldn’t ingest any of the water straight from the tap in China, and that we should make sure to boil it first. We get...