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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
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Sweater: Anthropologie
Skirt: The J. Peterman Company
Under the skirt: My vintage petticoat
Shoes: Madden Girl
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
Continue reading here: www.photographythrive.com/haunted/
Twelve a Year: November
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
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"Her messy hair is a visible attribute of her stubborn spirit. As she shakes it free, she smiles knowing wild is her favorite color." - poetry by J. Iron Word
I have difficultly putting my emotions and feelings in to words. I search for poets and writers to give my photographs the words I cannot express.
Twelve a Year: November 2018
“He created a world in which I never knew existed.”
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
One of the many transient pieces of art which adorn the walls of Leeside Skatepark in Vancouver, BC Canada. This park is named and dedicated to Lee Matasi December 27, 1981 - December 3, 2005
A tribute website to Lee can be found here
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Untangling the past. It may take quiet moments, and last for days. It's important. It's necessary. Each of us has potential, a special gift. I'm sending this out in hopes it may inspire you to unwrap your package (your future) by releasing the knot of your past. Set yourself free to be creative, and giving. xo
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"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully ... To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours ... To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone's passion by the radiance of the setting sun."
-- Vincent van Gogh, 1888.
As always I appreciate your visits and comments, my friends...Have a nice week...!
Best seen on black - press L or click on image above.
For a sharper, contrasting, confrontational stare, go to: www.michikofujii.co.uk/blog/3z5x8z8e7ptwfcz6pap3kdpzxyegws
Twelve a Year February 2020
If you just wait, the world gets louder when you're by yourself. Listening to the sounds of the natural world is a gift that many block out.
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
Day 18 submission for the Flickr 21 Day photo challenge, prompt is 'Inspiration'. Captured with multiple exposures and light painting on a Nikon Zfc.
Emotions, powerful in their own nature.
Emotions, allowing us to communicate and connect.
Emotions, giving color to the otherwise dull.
Emotions. We are all gifted with them.
Powerful in their own way.
Able to adapt, change and erupt.
Emotions.
Do we control them or allow them to control us?
Models: Me and Jonathan Chape Photography
Click here for the full blog: www.photographythrive.com/emotions
She insisted that I retake the picture with the fan open, and that I post it.
24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
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Skirt: Anthropologie
Shirt: Vintage
Sweater: Gap
Shoes: Born
Tights: Target
Earrings: Anthropologie
Pin: Vintage from Flea Market here in LA
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Skirt: Made by myself
Top: H&M
Sandals: Tommy Bahama
Tiny flowers on hair: Vintage
My take on a shot by JenniPenni.
Andddddd J is for "Just Wondering"
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Finally going home today! I'll miss my grandparents, yes, but I have limited props and wardrobe here! It was killing me!
Um.. this was supposed to be a bit ironic.. I feel like too many are taking it seriously. Giving me the meaning of life! I mean, I adore everyone's opinions, htough :)
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Cardigan: Paul Smith
Skirt: Anthropologie (with my vintage petticoat underneath)
Shoes and tights: Target
Belt: Vintage
Necklace: Handmade by myself
Dress: Max Studio
Cardigan: Paul Smith
Shoes: Target
Belt: Target
Pin: Made by myself
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Twelve a Year: May
"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them."
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
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How can you photograph a place that has had countless photographs taken from every angle possible? My personal answer is that you cannot. Anything you have thought of as being creative or different has most likely already been done. When I go to locations that have had so many before me I only think of one thing, "Did I execute what I wanted to portray?" If the answer is yes, then that is all I care about. That I created what I intended to. And so here is my version of Yosemite.
Inspired by someone that reminded me of the wild within me.
I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm. ― Benedict Smith
"Live Free" - I made this image exclusively for the Sony Female Alpha Grant and it is made to represent what Alpha Means to me. Here is the behind the scenes video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3v8cTIQNw
🌠 Do you believe in something BADLY enough to get it? Do you trust in yourself enough to follow that little guiding voice inside of you? The one who gently nudges you on the path that you should be taking? 🌌
To the courageous women who applied for the Sony Female Alpha Creator-In-Residence grant – I applaud you. It was a hard application and one that took a lot of thought and no time for second-guessing. It was an opportunity to uncover a part of yourself and see how far you could test your limits. It was a chance to really sit down and think about who you are, where you are going and what you want in this life.
I am grateful for that opportunity. I am grateful to have learned so much about myself in those 14 days that I just worked away for over 10 hours a day writing, proofing, re-recording, shooting and just trusting that I deserved this chance. I learned that there is a community of amazing women out there who support each other in their journeys. I learned that there is a company out there who believe in ME and MY dreams. I learned to never back down from a dream and that it is NEVER too late to BE BOLD and FEARLESSLY pursue your dreams. I stand for that WHOLEHEARTEDLY. It took me the better part of 11 years to get here but I refuse to give up. There is so much in store for us if we just choose to believe in our own power. So I extend my hand out to you and ask: What is it that YOU want MOST in this world and how can we work together to get there?
🌠 Be bold, be brave, be fearless – your dreams are waiting 🌠
Unhealthy Routine (1/3 in my Masquerade series)
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Full Blog: www.fiercelypowerful.com/masquerade/
Twelve a Year May 2020
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
I find that I don't take a lot of photos in my underwear. On one hand, it feels too revealing for a more casual setting, especially since the underwear tend to reveal the contours of what's underneath. So I opt for just a shirtless photo. But in a setting where it's expected for me to show my body, an underwear photo feels underwhelming when I could just be naked. I suppose I should just share these photos more in both settings. I value being authentic and vulnerable, and presenting myself in nothing but underwear can be a relatively safe yet poignant way to do that.
An AI recreation of "Portrait of a Woman by Georgios Lakovidis" using the CED Photography process method.
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Skirt: Anthropologie
Shirt: Vintage
Shoes: Madden Girl
Necklace: Vintage
Belt: Vintage
“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ”
― Rumi
I can honestly say, this has to be one of my favorite quotes. New image “Sorrow”.
What is an emotion that you are connecting with the most right now?
Read my unexpected encounter with sorrow on the blog: www.photographythrive.com/sorrow/
A recreation of Claire de Bearn, Duchess of Vallombrosa by Franz Xavier Winterhalter using the CED Photography process.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison