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Lisa R. Howeler

As a writer, photographer and former journalist, Lisa R. Howeler writes a little bit about everything on her blog Boondock Ramblings. She's a wife and a mother and enjoys a good John Wayne movie and a cozy Jan Karon book. She's also a freelance writer and photographer who is a contributor to various stock agencies, including Lightstock and Alamy. Her photography work focuses on documentary and photojournalism.

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The first taste of real winter snow. Unfortunately, the kids won’t be able to play in the deeper snow today because the arctic front already settled in and it’s 16 degrees with windchills -27 (or something similarly dangerous. They’ve changed that number a couple of times). Another day of being inside and looking longingly outside. I have to be honest that I’m disappointed as well because I had hoped to to outside and get some photos of the kids in the snow but it won’t happen today or tomorrow. Tomorrow the high is set to only be 9 degrees!

We were all cold and no one wanted to leave the house, yet for some reason we were all drawn to the outside by some bright glow in the sky we had once heard about - something called a sun - which we vaguely remembered from a month or more ago. My daughter cried all the way down the hill and all the way back. The ice was too thin for us all to walk out on (except Zooma the Wonder Dog), and Dad couldn’t feel his hands anymore so we headed back up the hill, laid the crying kid down for a nap and called it a day.

Instagram is more about personality than talent. Trust me on this. I have seen some amazing photographers with way too few followers when it comes to the work they produce versus some okay photographers who have tons of followers. Why is this? Because social media is a popularity contest. Sometimes the increased followers is because the person can write and draw a person in but sometimes they are followed because they do and say and act the way they think they are supposed to and then people follow them because they also think that’s who they are supposed to be because a bunch of celebrities told them to be that way. I’ve seen compliments and gushing on photos I barely glanced at and crickets on the same caliber, or better work, and can’t seem to wrap my mind around it. Then I realize two photographers, or more, are all commenting on each other’s posts and are most likely doing it as part of a pod. In other words much of it is contrived and scripted adoration to make each other look more important than they are. I was in a pod for a short time and I loved the artists in that pod but I felt so awkward as I wondered if they were only leaving comments because they felt they should and I quietly left. If I leave a comment on a photo of yours, whether it’s based on the photo or on the merit of your words, I’m doing so because I actually want to - not to get something in return. I hope people will do the same with me because all this facade garbage is really getting old and isn’t the world I want to be a part of.

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