Category Archives: Inspiration

Portrait Inspired: Christina Ricci by Patrick Hoelck

Things I love about this image include the classic feeling, the soft detail brought out by the rim lighting, the delicate positioning of her fingers, the intimate and powerful gaze in her eyes, and the combination of subtle cold and warm tones. Beautiful Be sure to view the rest of Patrick’s Portfolio, thoroughly pleasing to...

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this is a photo that makes me incredibly happy

you are beautiful., originally uploaded by sungazing. Thank you Marge Piercy, for making such a bold statement with this image

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What’s Your Sanctuary?

sanctuary (a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept) So I’ve been working on clearing clutter from my life and reorganizing my bedroom. I decided on mostly white, and to hang actual pencil sketches rather than any finished pieces of art to sort of represent bareness, candidness, rawness, simplicity, and honesty so I can surround myself...

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Mothers Everywhere, Celebrate Your Children Today :)

This morning my son woke me up and placed a ziplock baggie full of ‘mother’s day coupons’ into my lap. “You’ll never guess what kind of coupons these are!” His smile was huge, and proud, and a smidge goofy with joy. When I opened the package to my surprise, they were ‘helper’ coupons — little...

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Everyone Should Dream

A lot of times when you think of ‘abandoned houses’ or locations, there is a ‘creepy’ vibe that goes along with that. Not the case with this amazing farm house I had the opportunity to explore here in Ohio recently. There was so much light and brightness throughout the place, a warm and welcoming feeling...

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Your Friends’ Children

There’s something about the way you feel toward your friends’ children that is different from other children, especially if you’re already a parent; you feel protective over them, you care about how they perceive you and the example you’re setting for them. You miss them even. But what’s best about your friends’ children, is you...

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The Little Things

It is out of habit, to get caught up in our everyday events, routines, social networks, etc. The majority of us are so busy just “being busy” that we forget to make time for ourselves, we lose sight of how to nurture our passions, and when we stop for a breath of fresh air all...

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Stories

There’s something special, eerie, very raw, and rather moving about things and places that have been left behind.  Staring the past in the face can make you feel incredibly alive and connected to situations you aren’t totally sure ever existed, but you know that something significant has happened because the energy is thick and moves...

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vestige

An abundance of new understanding breathes in, around, and through. Intimate. Conceivable. For a moment, infinite. Contradictory. Complimentary. Everything, nothing, yesterday, tomorrow, joy, questions, and sorrow. Definitive fragments of our existence whisper to us, secrets about the connectedness between ourselves and our surroundings. Why are we conditioned to ignore those kinds of intuitions, why are...

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Image And Words: Simplicity

comfort discovered you, meunsuspectingsomething brushed against our soulswhispering familiar secretssinging softly about truth you were with meall this time I held onto youfrom miles awayI felt your hand in mineas it gripped the camerawhile my eyes looked through the lenswhile the rain insisted on my company;you were there. now comfort has discovered you, meunsuspectingwe withstood...

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