Do you love where you live? Have you thought about why? The particularities of a place—its notitia—spark the fire of our interest in the places we love. Discovering what is special about a place increases our devotion to it, awakening a love that can lead to outcomes lasting beyond our lifetimes. In 2014, Heron’s Eye Co-Founder Sandy Long was given the opportunity to photograph the notitia of Shenandoah National Park—beloved by millions—as its first Artist in Residence. A year later,
Read more →Smart phone photo editing is the topic that Coal Cracker youth-led news reporters will explore on January 30th. The free training session will be led by Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Pierre-Pierre, a multi-media and entrepreneurial journalist. Coal Cracker reporter Ashley Stetson (at center in the above photo) will act as a youth trainer for the session, lending her smart phone photo editing expertise to the conversation. Ashley is a seventh grade student at Mahanoy Area Middle School. She has been a
Read more →Wonder Watch 2016 is our continuing social media series of iPhone photos and videos capturing wonder-awakening things we encounter in the natural world. We hope that it will shine a light, brighten a moment, invite reflection, or simply increase the world’s quota of wonder. About Wonder Watch 2016 We began sharing images of wonder-awakening things we encountered in the natural world in 2013 through daily Facebook posts. View the photo album here. In 2014, we continued the series on a
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