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Thank you, Muses past and present, for your illumination and imagination. Thank you, guest posters, for your contributions and creativity. Thank you, members of the Mortal Muses community, for yo...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/27/thanksgiving/

The first time my husband came to America, he funded his flight ticket in part by selling his beloved old landrover bought from a secondhand car dealer five years before. They’d traveled from o...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/21/moving-on/

When I received an email in my Flickr inbox asking me if I was interested in a position as a Mortal Muse my first thought was, do they have the right person? I was maybe a year into my new blog a...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/20/what-i-learned/

I had a feeling this post would be a bit difficult to write, but I had no idea how difficult until just now when I began to write. Mortal Muses was founded only a year or so after I first bega...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/19/lifted-up/

It is with great regret that we have decided to say farewell to Mortal Muses at the end of this month in order to focus our energies on a new project for 2015. So for the two weeks leading up to ...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/10/farewell-to-the-mortal-muses/

Photography used to be my entire life. I ran a portrait business, I spent all my free time reading tutorials and shooting artistic work. I spent countless hours showing my work online, designing ...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/11/07/things-change/

Last month I spent a weekend doing “wet-plate collodion photography” course. As you may have noticed, I enjoy the challenge of shooting film, and I’ve tried successively larger formats (inc...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/10/03/adventures-in-19th-century-photography/

I’ll be heading back to South Africa for a few weeks to visit family and friends, so I thought I’d share some mobile love from my last trip taken two and a half years ago. I had just bought m...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/09/29/africa-hipstamatic/

As photographers the most important thing we learn is how to perfect every element of a photograph. We learn to meticulously scan our surroundings in search of the perfect light, the perfect fram...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/09/16/shooting-for-imperfection/

One of my strongest  instincts as a teacher is to help people figure out what it is they want to say with their photography, and also to help them remember that they aren’t alone – that I a...

http://gdmig-mortalmuses.com/2014/09/04/roadway/