What I write about: Personal Portfolio

In the previous post I talked about my Aviation Portfolio -- all related, at least tangentially, to my work. In addition I write material that I think of as my Personal Portfolio.

The centerpiece of my Personal Portfolio is a blog called The Right Blue, which I co-produce with my husband. In it we recount the many adventures we've had over the course of several decades as divers, and some of the things we've learned along the way about the ocean and its natural inhabitants. In addition to the tales, the blog also showcases my underwater photography. With very few exceptions (all of which are labeled) , the images on the blog are photos I've taken myself, here in Hawaii where we live, as well as at various dive sites around the world.

Here are a few of the most recent articles posted to The Right Blue:

• Tales of whales: Humpbacks in Hawaii
• A little fish with a big job
• Male fur seals at Taiaroa Head
  

And here are a few recently posted stand-alone photos of marine life (no text -- although each has a brief description posted as the first comment).

• Red-spotted Sandperch
• Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle on Puako Reef
• Stripe-belly Puffer Fish
  

At present we are preparing a new blog -- a land-based companion to The Right Blue. The new blog will feature photos (and descriptions) of scenery, flowers, and animal life. We have an extensive garden that we run like a mini nature preserve, so most of the photos in the new blog will focus an the plants, trees and flowers in our garden, and the critters that live there or visit regularly. We'll also display photos shot elsewhere on our island, as well as images from places to which we travel. Stay tuned: When the new blog is launched I'll announce it here.

Finally, I also write for a multi-author blog called Go! Smell the Flowers. Here are my three most recent posts there:

• Go! Kick up your heels underwater!
  
• Go! See the contrasts
  
• Go! Smell the wildflowers... er, weeds
  

I rarely lack for topics to write about, but sometimes I run a little short of time to write all of the things I want to write, WHEN I want to write them. For example, all of the writing I intended to do in my personal blogs had to be put aside late this past week after a British Airways plane crash landed at London's Heathrow Airport. The priority was to write about that event and its aftermath for my aviation news blogs, which I did, but the task was so labor intensive that it left no time for the personal writing.

So it goes.