LAshElam

Hello! I'm a photographer living in RVA (Richmond, VA) with a dog (that I usually call a pig) named Dubs! (He's a rescued AmStaff)

Loves:
philately... I'm a budding Philatelist... I inherited my grandmother's stamp collection and have kept up with local designs, but haven't settled into my niches yet
I collect US National Parks Passport cancellations and would love to know if your country has something similar.
pens, pencils, writing utensils
especially fountain & pointed pens
handwritten things
correspondence, lists, calligraphy, BuJo, travelers notebook
ink, paper, origami, stationary, stamps... and of course post cards!!!

books (bibliophile)-
Nonfiction- science, history, humor...
Tolkien... Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere... Pullman’s His Dark Materials... A Song of Ice & Fire... Harry Potter...
Classics... Jane Eyre, Middlemarch and anything Austen, Tolstoy, Dickens, Mark Twain, many many more... Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Mystery, Children’s... though I’ll try anything
crosswords & puzzles & trivia & games are so fun... CAH, scrabble

travel, culture, geography, fun facts, people watching, nature, the brain
animals- wildlife and pets... but especially:
dogs... love them all but I'm obsessed with french bulldogs!
hippos, pandas,
foxes, bears, otters, wolves, raccoons
jaguars, elephants
goats, horses, cows
and hedgehogs
plants- especially succulents!
I'm a bit of a naturalist so I think feathers, skulls, bones, rocks, etc. are cool!
art- renaissance, tenebrism, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, impressionism, post impressionism, german expressionism, Renoir, vanGogh, Monet, Degas, Lautrec, Schiele, Picasso, Warhol, Close, pop, modern... drawing, charcoal, soft pastel, painting, oil, watercolor, ink, glassblowing, color

cameras-Canon, Fuji Instax, Mamiya vintage cameras...film and polaroid... especially portraits and photojournalism, National Geographic
tech- Apple hooked me... iMac, MacbookPro, iPhone, Watch, iPad Pro, Pencil... Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop... Procreate

movies (cinephile haha)- Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, James Bond... Marvel, Disney, Pixar... Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock... Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Classics 1930s-1950s, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall... 90s to early 2000s (my childhood).
music- I love a little bit of everything... so I 💚 spotify

food- love it all... fresh fruit & veggies, bread, meat & cheese
I love pie sweet & savory... chocolate & caramel... Always have peanut or almond m&ms with me! haha
coffee- starbucks for access but I enjoy the good stuff

I’d love to know what we have in common... and postcards related to any of these things or your location would be lovely! Thanks for getting to know me a little and sending me a postcard. :)
I prefer non-envelope postcards <3