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Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

CSS Book Recommendations

We’ve shown you some of our CSS experiments and tips and tricks like playing with text, borders, displaying your photography, pull-quotes and blockquotes, lists and menus, logos, and more. We included a list of resources from which we learned to do a lot of these CSS experiments and CSS designs, and here are a list […]

Behind the Background Magic

In our article series on background magic, we looked at the ways to create a perfect background and the crimes against backgrounds many photographers commit. In this Behind The Scenes article, we want to explore more of the magic of backgrounds and how they can make or break a photograph. We’ll show you examples of […]

A Problem with a Door

The cathedral in Toledo is a work of art inside and out. But from the outside, it is a burden to photograph. Crammed inside an architectually crowded old city, the streets approaching the cathedral do so at angles, twists and turns, rarely a clear view down a long street towards an interesting facade of the […]

Developing the Photographic Approach

“Oh, your pictures are so beautiful. Mine never look like that,” exclaim many people when they see our images. “What kind of camera do you use?” Time and again we explain that it isn’t the dummy camera that creates the beautiful pictures. It’s the dummy behind the camera. Honestly, it isn’t the film, it isn’t […]

Wanna Be Neighbors?

This is an email Brent sent to our dearest friend, Bruce, who lives in Kansas. Brent met him while working for Boeing in Whitchita, Kansas, many moons ago. Brent got a new job in Everett, Washington, and moved there, and a year later, Bruce got a job in Everett, at the same plant – different […]

Hello From Los Picos de Europa in Spain

From: Brent VanFossen To: Kent and Lynda Kay VanFossen March 16, 2003 Hey there! Tried to send this a few days ago, but at the moment I hit send, the Internet connection went down in the shop and stayed down. We are now in Bilbao and just came out of the Guggenheim, the museum of […]

The VanFossens flee Israel in the wake of Bush’s war on Iraq

PRESS RELEASE DATE: February 2003 SUBJECT: The VanFossens flee Israel as Bush declares war on Iraq Tel Aviv, Israel – There are many victims in war, but among the ones accounted for in the media are the thousands of US civilians living in the Middle East who choose to stay or flee as US President […]

Two Big Bangs – Again

Another year, another bombing. When will it ever stop? And what good does it do? Nothing changes. They keep attacking and Israel stomps harder. The Palestinian economy, not to mention most of the nearby Arab countries’ economies, are all suffering horribly from their actions. No tourists, everyone afraid, no one spending money. And the IDF […]

Newsletter: Weather or Not

Due to many recent changes in the Internet and our lives, we’ve discontinued our monthly newsletter. Thanks to everyone who subscribed to our monthly newsletter. With the advent of feeds and feed readers, emailed newsletters are slowly becoming obsolete and redundant. To help readers keep up with the information on our site, we have dozens […]

Taking Your Camera on the Road Website Reaches 400 Published Articles

PRESS RELEASE DATE: December 2002 SUBJECT: The VanFossens’ web site Totals over 400 Articles VanFossen Productions, Lorelle and Brent VanFossen “Taking Your Camera on the Road” www.cameraontheroad.com lorelle@cameraontheroad.com Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel – Want to know about taking your camera on the road? How about life living abroad, or especially living in Israel? […]

Newsletter: Telling the Whole Story with Photographs and Words

Due to many recent changes in the Internet and our lives, we’ve discontinued our monthly newsletter. Thanks to everyone who subscribed to our monthly newsletter. With the advent of feeds and feed readers, emailed newsletters are slowly becoming obsolete and redundant. To help readers keep up with the information on our site, we have dozens […]

Life Makeovers Group – How to Start Your Own Group

Life Makeover Program in Tel Aviv Completed In the end of 2002, we finished this year-long program and it was a resounding success for those who participated fully, and a lesser success for those who participated at a lesser level. The adage that you get out of it what you put into it lived up […]

Evening Program – Wild Thing, I Think I Love You – Wildlife Nature Photography

PRESS RELEASE DATE: September 2002 SUBJECT: Exploring the Wild Side of Nature VanFossen Productions, Lorelle and Brent VanFossen “Taking Your Camera on the Road” www.cameraontheroad.com lorelle@cameraontheroad.com Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel – The deer moves slowly through the tall grasses, lifting her head to check the air and then lowering it to return to […]

Personal Safety and Self-Defense Course for Women in Tel Aviv

PRESS RELEASE DATE: September 2002 SUBJECT: Women Can Fight Back ESRA – English Speaking residents Association “Volunteering Together for the Community” PO Box 5816, Herzliya 46157 972-9-958-6932 Women Can Fight Back – Personal Safety Course for Women Tel Aviv, Israel – Current statistics report that one in three women will be sexually assaulted in their […]

Teaching the Basics of the Internet in Tel Aviv, Israel

PRESS RELEASE DATE: September 2002 SUBJECT: Internet Workshops ESRA – English Speaking Residents Association “Volunteering Together for the Community” PO Box 5816, Herzliya 46157 972-9-958-6932 Tel Aviv, Israel – What is the “web”? Everyone is talking “Internet”. Do you feel left out? ESRA-Tel Aviv (English Speaking Residents Association) is offering you a chance to get […]