Cheap, quick, DIY light tent for product photography
A quick setup on my kitchen counter using printer paper propped up on drinkwear and natural light. (The antique pipe is compliments of my wife’s Father’s Day present.) Final ImageThis Is West End: Documenting a Community
Here is the story behind “This Is West End,” a new project in collaborative partnership with friend and pastor Fred Bennett focusing on western Union County,...
“The Sentinel” – People of the Susquehanna
PHOTO: A member of the Mifflinburg Hose Company stands poised as a blaze in Millmont is brought under control. A cornerstone of the rural community is the volunteer firefighter — always ready, always willing to pull together when the call arrives. As a former...
The Wainwright – People of the Susquehanna
With the painstaking precision of a master craftsman, a wainwright adds the final touches to a carriage chassis at the Mifflinburg Buggy Museum. People of the Susquehanna is an ongoing photography project which seeks to explore the lives and culture of the...
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.