"When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched."
— Patch Adams

Natural Beauty.

This was a photo from my "Lady of Shallot" photo shoot for my senior project.

The Lady of Shallot is a poem for the people that didn't know:)

SORRYYYY

I'm sorry I took a little break from the blog since I was so busy with applying for schools and finishing up my senior year but i'm back and ready to show you guys some of my newer photography! By the way, just an update with myself I'll be attending MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) next year!!!!!

 

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.” -Yves Saint Laurent quotes

 

"When you move like a jellyfish
Rhythm don't mean nothing
You go with the flow
You don't stop"

"illuminate the important things in life, and everything else will freeze in silence."

 

“You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” 

-Stephen King

 

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. " -Chinese Proverb

 

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." -Willa Cather

 

Orange you glad i didn't say banana? 

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”-Dale Carnegie

"And this great force it takes me to the ferry
To cross wind and water so untamed
And while on that ship my life just seems so very
Small in comparison to everything around"

-Jackopierce 

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. "-Napoleon Bonaparte

 

no quote to go along with this one..Cholula is just simply amazing. 

30 second exposure in a pitch black room, lit up with light from my cell phone.

My Keith Haring painting lit up by glow sticks. I absolutely love him.

"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about. "
-Keith Haring

“Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”-Albert Einstein

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish." -Ovid

“ We are all one. In the human form we are pioneers embarked on a wonderful journey, exploring and experiencing the physical world.”- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.”-Marilyn Monroe

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."  ~Berthold Auerbach

“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”- Kahlil Gibra

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”- William Penn

Love in a cup.

 

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."-Bob Dylan

busy :(

I'm sorry I've been so busy lately i havn't had any time to update. I'll try to pick it back up soon:)

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing. -"Mike Krzyzewski

“Men are like pumpkins. It seems like all the good ones are either taken or they've had everything scraped out of their heads with a spoon.”-Anonymous

“You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.”-Robert Collier

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”-C.S. Lewis

 

"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune."-Boris Pasternak

MY COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS :(

I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated any of my photos this past weekend, I've been in Richmond. I came home today and went to update this and found that my computer has a nasty virus so i can't access any of my pictures. I'm trying the best i can to get it fixed! so so so so sorry. Keep checking back though, it should be fixed soon (hopefully :/ )!

Much Love,
Amalia

“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”-Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."-James Callaghan

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.”-Mignon McLaughlin 

"One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why."  ~Author Unknown

Day 12 - September 6, 2010

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product." -Edward Steichen

Day 11-September 5, 2010

Take notice of the fly. (click the picture)

"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future." -Coco Chanel

Day 10- September 4, 2010

The light trail of the ferry boat at night. 

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."-Lord Byron

Day 9- September 3, 2010

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” -Helen Keller quotes

Day 8- September 2, 2010

Stephen Frank from Tek SubPort.

That is a massive visual screen behind him.

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." -Bob Marley

Day 7- September 1, 2010

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.” 
 - G. K. Chesterton 

Day 6- August 31, 2010

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." -Kahlil Gibran

Day 5- August 30, 2010

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."-Albert Camus

Day 4-August 29, 2010

I made blueberry french toast for breakfast.

"Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who--try as she might--just can't seem to pick as fast as she eats." Robert McCloskey's (Blueberries for Sal)

Day 3-August 28,2010

Watching the sunset the night before my sisters wedding.

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

-Pamela Hansford Johnson 

Day 2-August 27th, 2010

This is my cousin Christine laying in crazy shadows created by leaves.

 

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."-Josh Ruskin

Day 1-August 26th, 2010

I took this picture this summer, it shows 3 starfish in a tidal pool with the reflection of the clouds in the middle. Starfish are very graceful animals which you can bend into basically any shape, but they always go back to their original form when they you place them back in the water.

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”- Thomas Merton