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As I discover myself more and more as an artist, I have been exploring the idea of how we impact our external world with what is going on with our internal world. What I have found throughout my years alive, is that our perspective is what impacts the outcome of our situation – we emanate what is inside of us.
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Trying out a self-portrait to prepare for some of my ideas for this coming week's theme. Wanted to play with window lighting, flash, and trying to get skin tones correct.
Also trying out Lightroom 4 beta. Really liking it!!
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When you look at the world around you, do you believe that you are spreading light or darkness? Do you even know? Or ever stop to think about it?
Recently, I have been pondering this question. Am I doing more harm than good with my attitude? Just today I caught myself thinking, I wish I could rewind my life back 2 years and I wouldn’t make all the mistakes I’ve made since then – as long as I could rewind my life with all of the knowledge that I have now. I think humans often wish to go back, undo the mistakes they’ve made and move forward with the knowledge they have now.
Until going back in time becomes an option, we must go forward and do our best to learn from where we came and move forward with grace, love and patience towards ourselves. Even though I would love to rewind 2 years, I wouldn’t want to erase some of my greatest accomplishments of those 2 years or unmeet some of the beautiful people that have crossed my path.
If you could undo something from the past few years, what would you undo?
What are you doing to replenish your soul? Are you constantly giving of yourself without replenishing yourself?
I often find myself in the position of giving everything of myself without taking the time to nurture and replenish my energy. I give and give and give until there is nothing left and I collapse or I put myself in an environment that is desolate and not conducive to nurture me. Lately, I am being more intentional about drawing boundaries so that my soul can replenish itself after I have given a lot of myself to others.
I want you to know that you are an important being. There is nothing wrong with giving but there is also nothing wrong with taking. Strike a balance between both so that your cup can remain full. Find an environment that feeds into you instead of taking from you. Our resources are finite if we don’t care for them and at some point, those who we give to will have nothing to receive because you will be depleted. You matter and nurturing yourself is more important that nurturing others. Take care of yourself first so that you can then turn around and take care of others.
‘Til There is Nothing Left, 2019
Patience, frustration, cynicism, sarcasm, disbelief, contemplation.......
All kinda rolled into one.
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There’s power in what’s hidden. In this moment, we’re not invited to see the face, but to feel the presence. The posture isn’t just concealment—it’s protection, tension, defiance, or maybe even peace. The interwoven fingers form a barrier, but not a wall. It’s a quiet stand in a noisy world. What makes it compelling isn’t what we’re allowed to see, but what we’re made to wonder. This is vulnerability in full display, not through expression, but through the act of withholding it.
One of many Graffiti Walls in Downtown Macon established by The 567 Center for Renewal to provide graffiti and mural artists a legal place to practice their craft. Anyone, whether professional artist or aspiring artist, is able to use the wall as a blank canvas to express themselves and create art without causing property damage for building owners.
This photo is part of my Exploring Macon project featuring images taken around Macon and Middle Georgia.
This portrait was taken on an old staircase inside a house that’s been slowly falling apart over the years.
I liked the quiet light there — soft, dusty, and almost cinematic.
The uncensored series is available here:
For an alternative version of the moment in monochrome, go to: www.michikofujii.co.uk/blog/hzpftcafhsx4r3fkrzr9fd73a5kth8
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Top: Forever 21
Skirt: Forever 21
Shoes: Manolo Blahnik
Belt: Anthropologie
Dress: Togs Soho
Cardigan: Vintage
Shoes: Lower East Side
Hair accessory: From Hawaii
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Dress: Mod Cloth
Shoes: Anthropologie
Belt: Handmade
Even the simple act of a fallen leaf leads to a much bigger importance.
Katsuhiko Matsunaga, a marine chemist at the Hokkaido University, discovered that leaves falling into streams and rivers leach acids into the ocean that stimulate the growth of plankton, the first and most important building block in the food chain.
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
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Happy October 1st, the official month to celebrate Halloween!
Mrs. Death was born out of a challenge that I made for myself. I had purchased a styrofoam skeleton head from Michaels and forced myself to come up with as many concepts as possible utilizing that prop.
This image was very fun to create and I cannot wait to share the rest of the series this month.
Twelve a Year: January
"You think you've seen her naked because she took her clothes off? Tell me about her dreams. Tell me what breaks her heart. What is she passionate about, and what makes her cry? Tell me about her childhood. Better yet, tell me one story about her that you're not in.
You've seen her skin, and you've touched her body. But, you still know as much about her as the book you once found but never got around to opening." - Dominic Matthew Jackson
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
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Top: Love Stitch
Skirt: Forever 21
Shoes: Anthropologie
Belt: Anthropologie
Headband: Vintage
Invisible Petticoat: Vintage from the Rose Bowl Flea Market
The conspiratorial lean and the lopsided smile say that the story she’s telling is clearly getting to one of the good parts.
Unposed shots are just so much more fun. You'd never recapture this as a posed shot.
It’s cool how the gray, urban background makes it look like color-splash, when, other than cropping and watermarking, it’s OOC. And, I love the psychedelic rainbow Tribbles turned into earrings.
24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
DO YOU EASILY GIVE FLIGHT TO THE THOUGHTS THAT HAUNT YOU?
I’ve been giving this topic a lot of thoughts as I prepare to teach my very first “Book of Happy” Class in January at Kim Winey Photography’s Reboot Workshop.
SO many of us go on about out daily lives haunted by what goes through our minds. Thoughts pour in and out, running in the background like the processor of a computer. You think them, give them life, feel them, all the while perhaps not acknowledging what they are or how they’re shaping your past, present and future.
At first, I worried about teaching about my Book of Happy. I have a pretty great life. It’s pretty great now because I worked at it. My parents have been the best teachers in happiness and positivity that I could have ever asked for. During our conversation this past Monday morning, my Mom said, “You weren’t always happy. You weren’t exactly a happy kid but you’ve always worked at it.” I appreciate her words so much because they’re true. To get to a point where the haunted thoughts are far less than the purposeful and happy thoughts takes a great deal of work and effort.
It begins with a commitment to oneself to do something different to achieve a different result.
“THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS.” – ALBERT EINSTEIN
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