Amanda Shopa
Film Photography & Fiber Arts
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Weeks 77–80 of 209 Weeks
Week 77 of 209 Weeks: “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” —Rachel Carson Photo Notes: This photo was taken in Waubun, MN in July 2025. I think the floret in the seedhead might be evidence of a disease or infection. Week…
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Week 80 of 209 Weeks
Week 80 of 209 Weeks: “So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.” —Mary Oliver, from “Mornings at Blackwater” Photo Notes: This photo was taken with Ilford SFX, a near-infrared film, at Vermilion-Soudan State Park in October 2025. This…
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Taekwondo, Vulnerability, and the Apple Ajumma
Living in Korea fundamentally changed me. When I moved to Korea, I was twenty-five. I’d lived a thousand miles away from my family for years. I’d lived alone and with others, and I was settled in my career. I’d traveled domestically and abroad, mostly solo. I knew love and heartbreak. By all measures, I was…
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Week 79 of 209 Weeks
Week 79 of 209 Weeks: “I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily.” —Ted Chiang, Exhalation Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Vermilion-Soudan State Park in October 2025.
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Week 78 of 209 Weeks
Week 78 of 209 Weeks: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” —Wendell Phillips Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Vermilion-Soudan State Park in summer of 2023. This grasshopper hung around for a very long time, long enough that I could go get more film!
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Week 77 of 209 Weeks
Week 77 of 209 Weeks: “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” —Rachel Carson Photo Notes: This photo was taken in Waubun, MN in July 2025. I think the floret in the seedhead might be evidence of a disease or infection.
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Weeks 73–76 of 209 Weeks
Week 73 of 209 Weeks: “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” —Meister Eckhart Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the University of Minnesota’s iron pour in spring 2019. Week 74 of 209 Weeks: “The only recognizable feature of hope is action.” —Grace Paley Photo Notes: The photo was taken at the Minnesota State…
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Week 76 of 209 Weeks
Week 76 of 209 Weeks: I love you. Let’s be family. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in 2020.
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If I Stay Here, I’ll Never Leave
Twenty years ago today, I moved abroad to teach for a year. I left the United States the morning of July 2nd, 2006 with a few large pieces of luggage. I arrived in Seoul the evening of July 3rd, and I started teaching at a brand new kindergarten on July 4th. (On July 5th—early enough…
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Week 75 of 209 Weeks
Week 75 of 209 Weeks: “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” —Dorothy Day Photo Notes: This photo was taken on the University of Minnesota campus in Spring 2019. Apparently it’s the only known “shoe tree” in Minnesota.