Tourmaline .

About Tourmaline .

Literally all I care about is photographing toys...and writing about photographing toys.

6 Ways to Fix your Photo Funk

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-15T20:26:16-08:00June 22, 2017|How To..., Ideas About Creativity|

Discouragement, fear, demotivation, I’ve discussed these way too much at [...]

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On Times of Creative Discouragement

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-15T20:43:01-08:00June 15, 2017|Ideas About Creativity|

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” [...]

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Leaving A Photo Be

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-14T19:12:43-08:00June 8, 2017|Guest Authors, Ideas About Creativity|

“A great photograph [is] a full expression of what one [...]

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A Foggy Path

By Tourmaline .|2017-06-05T06:13:38-07:00June 1, 2017|Guest Authors, Ideas About Creativity|

It all started with the word ‘humid.’ In Florida it’s [...]

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A Reflection

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-14T19:59:22-08:00May 25, 2017|Guest Authors, My First Photo|

I shot my first toy photos 9 years ago. I was [...]

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My One Photo that Changed it All

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-15T21:29:11-08:00May 18, 2017|Guest Authors, The One Photo that Changed it All|

This is the story of the toy photo that set [...]

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Learning Lego

By Tourmaline .|2017-05-05T18:29:21-07:00May 4, 2017|Guest Authors, Ideas About Creativity|

The Beginning Quite a few months ago a friend asked [...]

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Image Recovery & Shooting Outside your Comfort Zone

By Tourmaline .|2017-04-28T11:20:47-07:00April 27, 2017|Guest Authors, Ideas About Creativity|

I’m pretty strictly a studio photographer. I like having full [...]

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Saving Ideas

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-14T19:43:55-08:00April 20, 2017|Guest Authors, Ideas About Creativity|

Google image search ‘idea journaling’ and you get beautiful pages [...]

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My 5 Favorite Figures by Jennifer Nichole Wells

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-14T19:44:35-08:00April 6, 2017|Five Favorite Figures, Guest Authors|

This is a much more difficult prompt than it should [...]

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10 Reasons Why Toys are Fascinating

By Tourmaline .|2017-04-03T10:05:48-07:00March 27, 2017|Guest Authors, Why?|

I’ve been studying various sources to get snippets about why [...]

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On Measuring Success

By Tourmaline .|2019-10-27T04:06:46-07:00March 20, 2017|Guest Authors, Highlights from the archive, Ideas About Creativity|

By dictionary definition, success is ‘the accomplishment of an aim [...]

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Why? by Jennifer Nichole Wells

By Tourmaline .|2018-02-14T19:46:57-08:00February 20, 2017|Guest Authors, Why?|

Hi everyone, My name is Jennifer Nichole Wells. I’m 26 [...]

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