karen e wink

I love the holidays. They give you license to have fun even with your work.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. –Martin H. Fischer

Art from fish from Karen Wink on Vimeo.
The best way to learn is through real world experience. Plus, it is also cheaper. Most workshops are $15K or more. Money I don’t have. So this year I resolved to learn as much as [...]

STORY BY KAREN WINK
AMERICAN PRESS, August 29, 2010
Current and former employees from the old Mathieson Alkali Works in Westlake gathered before sunrise to witness the last moments of a structure they called the heart of the old plant — a 320-foot tall flue stack.
At about 7 a.m. there was one small boom and then a [...]

Little changes can make all the difference in a good video and a not so good video

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” -Anatole France

Most of the stories I have written so far have been about the arts. Recently I was given the opportunity write a news feature. The story was a tough one but I have a great editor that helped me through [...]

…words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone. - William Albert Allard

Here’s the latest. I love having every angle on a story covered in print and web. Donna Price, the LCAP’s art guru, put the page today for this past Sunday’s paper.
I opted to not have the audio correspond directly with [...]

Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. - Don McCullin

At last, my spare time has been completely dedicated to rebuilding my website. The chosen design is different from what I have [...]

[All photographers has to do, is] find and catch the story-telling moment. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

Well, I really did not slack on anything except my personal blog posts.
The holiday season was long and a little boring to be quite frank. I worked Christmas and trying to find feature photos on a rainy Christmas is almost impossible. My attitude was admittedly bad but it was my first time to ever work [...]

 
 
Marcy Tweed emits a perimeter of joy around herself and her vehicle. It is not just Christmas joy but she does use Christmas as an excuse to spread some of her joy around the town of Lake Charles. 
Tweed first started decorating her vehicle for the City of Lake Charles Christmas Parade  six years ago. She started small [...]