Week Four of Ordinary Haunting, days 22-28, consist of August 11th, 2026 through August 17th, 2026 This week included a work trip to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. And of course I took my camera. Took hotel photos. And a drive to downtown Tulsa. Back from the wasteland. Home, sweet home. And absolutely gorgeous colors. What stood out to me in Week Four? I miss traveling. I love complex weather. Tulsa (as much as I hate to admit it) absolutely deserves another visit - preferably in c

Week Three of Ordinary Haunting, days 15-21, consist of August 4th, 2026 through August 10th, 2026. This week I began questioning (well, questioning... more) what I'm doing. Subjects aren't as readily available as they were in Weeks One and Two. Not because anything significant has changed out there, but the things I find interesting have evolved. I mean, there's only so many times you can see the same things before they lose their uniqueness. It becomes less about finding ne

Week Two of Ordinary Haunting, days 8-14, consist of July 28th, 2026 through August 3rd, 2026. I can't honestly say that the 5 a.m. alarm clock got significantly easier. It didn't. My dedication to the project grew, though. How would my photographic skill change as I scheduled the time to practice? What would I begin to see that I had missed before? When you force yourself to go out and see, even when you don't have any inspiration or even an idea of what you're looking for,

When I go out at 5 a.m. I find myself getting (irrationally?) angry at the sunrise. My favorite times of the day are before the sun rises and after the sun sleeps. Ordinary Haunting Day 052 was one of these mornings. Until I saw the sunrise. While determining the morning photography was over, I saw a break in the clouds.. but could find nowhere to pull over before the planet shifted and the shot was gone. I chased it for fifteen minutes before I realized it was futile, and I

I started Ordinary Haunting on July 21st, 2026. I had been looking for a reason to get up every morning; some time that belonged to only me in the midst of the business of life. I considered what I wished I had more time for, and the answer was simple: Photography. I've always been interested in photography, a curiosity, in a sense. Over the past, I have had many point and shoot cameras, but honestly never realized - or even gave it much thought - how complicated photography

August 2026 is drawing to a close and I don't know where the month has gone. It's been busy - between working, traveling for work, and waking up at 5 a.m. Which is still crazy for me to think about. I've never been a morning person. Five a.m. gives me two hours of myself. Time to be alone; going where I want, silencing my phone, pretending responsibility doesn't exist, and doing what I love. ...with blaring music and strong coffee to keep me conscious. Because 5 a.m. is a stu

The first 11 days of Ordinary Haunting finished out the month of July. Here are my favorites for July.

I didn’t start dragging myself out of bed at 5:15 a.m. because I suddenly became a morning person or because I enjoy hearing the alarm. I started because I realized there was a version of the city that existed only before everyone else woke up. It was quieter. Stranger. I wasn’t a nurse practitioner, a daughter, or responsible for solving other people’s problems. I was just a photographer driving through a sleeping city, looking for stories hidden in ordinary places. I wanted