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After Dark at Walker Lake
DAILY PHOTO – Last evening my parents had invited us to go with them to Walker Lake, a local body of water near their place, to spend some time together and take our daughter out in their boat. However, my brother and I commandeered the boat first and went out...DIY 39-inch Reflective Umbrella with Dual Speedlight Bracket
While I often fantasize about expensive equipment and a large studio layout, I operate on a very minimal budget, which often leads me to be creative and develop my own equipment, dubbed “FrankenFoto.” And, this is one of my lovable “monsters.”...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.