Articles by: Hanna Brooks Olsen

In Charles Dickens's classic "A Christmas Carol," the Ghost of Christmas Past was a scary and morose figure and a reminder of all the things that Ebenezer Scrooge had done wrong in his life. In reality, for the most part, Christmases past aren't really very scary.

[caption id="attachment_10372" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo via Flickr[/caption] Bringing wine to a holiday or Thanksgiving dinner party can be…fraught, to say the least. You know it’s impolite to show up empty-handed (hence, the wine), but what if you make a poor selection?

[caption id="attachment_9115" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image: Houang Stephane via Flickr[/caption] With every new iPhone and iOS update, Apple makes one thing clear: Photography is very, very important to mobile phone users. Statistically, that’s a trend that’s pretty easy to see; Instagram announced last year that it had topped 800 million users, and the various iPhone iterations top every data set about who uploads their photos to Flickr.

[caption id="attachment_6140" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times[/caption] The ubiquity of Instagram and other photo-sharing apps has brought new attention to the medium of food photography, making it more accessible and popular than ever. But not all pictures of food are created equal; shooting food photography, like any photography style, requires a bit of technical know-how, as well as a critical eye.

Are you ready to start selling your handmade craft projects?

[caption id="attachment_9470" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Jody Morris via Flickr[/caption] The trope of the "starving artist" is so old, it's practically not even a trope anymore. Instead, it's more like a creepy bedtime story we tell potential working artists, as if to scare them out of the pursuit of art and in to some other career path.