Katherine Hall

Stock’s away! Ahem. I could probably think of many more stock-related puns, but I think I’ll stop now. And I won’t ask Alex or we’ll be here all week.
I like making stock. I’m not talking about stock photography, I can’t be bothered with that. I like making liquid stock from bones. I wasn’t going to [...]

You may remember Giles from a few months’ ago. He’s the light turquoise monster that I made.
There was such as response to Giles’ arrival, that I was asked (maybe begged) to make one for Christine. So I drew a sketch, which was approved, and I set about it. Well, time passed, as it must with [...]

I came across this site a few weeks’ ago. It’s a great idea and might even prove directly useful for me, one day.
Kickstarter is a site where people can set up a creative project, say how much funding they need and ask for donations. The funding will only be given to the creator if the [...]

I’ve found a new project and it could be dangerous to my attempts at anything else creative. It’s a game called noticin.gs.
It’s a photo- and internet-based game. The idea is that you take pictures of things that you see that are interesting, unexpected or unusual. Then upload them to Flickr, tag and map them and each [...]

Some time ago, I wrote about a photography subject that was exciting me. I still have that idea rumbling away at the back of my mind. I may not be taking as many pictures as I was a year ago, but most of them are around this theme.
I’m drawn to images which show light in [...]

Thank you for all your suggestions of creative ideas / words / topics to work on. Some are surprising, some are simple, some are from another planet! It’s very helpful to get them and I’m very grateful.
Well, I was grateful, until I tried to actually produce something based on one of them. Sheesh. Actually, it [...]

After the excitement of getting some suggestions for creative projects, I ignored them all. I made a monster instead. Here he is:

(Not very threatening, is he? I’ll take name suggestions. Giles, maybe?)
I made the monster because it was cute and because it wouldn’t take very long. I had the wool and the right sized crochet [...]

I thought I did. But I think perhaps that I don’t. Not so much.
It’s been over a year since I last wrote on this blog. It’s been an interesting year of very little photography. I stopped. That need was gone. I stopped feeling that I had to document everything. Why? I don’t know. Perhaps that [...]

I keep photographing the light that falls on our bedroom curtains in the mornings. The sun leaves the shadow of the window frame but adds the pattern of the branches and leaves outside. So the outdoors is being pushed inside. It’s a nice but very bright awakening.

Then I was struck by the [...]