TEDxPhoenix – Rick Guidotti – Seeing Beauty for a Change
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I Love Pinterest!
I love Pinterest!
It’s so much fun, great place for finding an inspiration and organizing.
The only bad side of Pinterest is that many people don’t credit source or photographers.
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Reset – Time to Come Back to Myself
First of all, I’d like to apologize to all my readers because I’m not so active on my blog lately.
I’m just going trough one of those phases…I need to reboot.
I was working a lot last few months (not only photography, I was launching a new business with my husband) and carrying my baby all this months. We are in 35th week and I feel like I should slow down a little bit. I was so busy with business side of my life and occupied with thoughts how to make money and give a proper life to my son who is going to arrive soon, that I haven’t even finish the book about breastfeeding I started to read.
Jude's crib
While I’m going trough my nesting phase, in the same time I experience need to reboot in business way too. Since I came to USA I feel like I’m not 100% on right direction when it comes to my photography. I kind of neglected my artistic side and became too business oriented.
When you change the country, especially continent and when you join to completely different culture than the one you’re used to, you can feel lost sometimes. I truly feel like I lost my direction. I miss photography I used to do in Serbia and I think I own to myself to come back to myself.
My photographers colleagues and people in Serbia know I used to photograph a lot contemporary and glamour type portraits (with ordinary girls and women who are not professional models). I did 2 nude photo shoots in my life, I enjoyed them, but I think nude and classic cheesy pin up boudoir is not for me in general. I have a deep, deep need to connect with women inside of me again and to start photographing women again.
In 1.5 years since I’m here, I’ve been scared and frustrated immigrant, I’ve been prego (I enjoyed that role, but I miss my body and capability to move normally again), I’ve been a photographer who is trying to find it’s place on over saturated market and now it’s time for new roles. I’m ready to be a mom, but I’m so so ready to be me again as well.
I’d like to find the way how to connect photographing children and women. At home that never been an issue, but for some reason, market in USA (at least Midwest) kind of demands that you distinguish children and women. It will never make any sense to me, because women are those who give a birth to children at the first place and that relation is so strong…Anyway, I hope I won’t get into position that I have to shut down all beautiful images of kids I made just because I decided to go back to photographing glam, sensual type of women portraiture again.
Yours Mili
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As I Began To Love Myself
I’m not sure what’s the real origin of this amazing poem, some people say that Charlie Chaplin wrote it, some people say it’s modified from original and that actually belongs to Kim & Alison McMillen who published the book “When I loved myself enough”.
Instead of wasting more time on who is right and who not, I’ll just enjoy this masterpiece, print it out and frame it.
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As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering
are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody
As I try to force my desires on this person,
even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready
for it,
and even though this person was me.
Today I call it “RESPECT”.As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life,
and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to
grow.
Today I call it “MATURITY”.As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance,
I am in the right place at the right time,
and everything happens at the exactly right moment.
So I could be calm.
Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time,
and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.
Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do
and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own
rhythm.
Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for
my health -
food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and
away from myself.
At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.
Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right,
and ever since I was wrong less of the time.
Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and
worry about the future.
Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening.
Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me
and it can make me sick.
But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.
Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of
problems
with ourselves or others.
Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.
Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!
Photography and Art quotes – 26
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham
I truly believe that my best photograph has not yet been captured.
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Mili
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When You Should Photograph Your Kid?
As a mother to be, I often think about how, when, how often I’m going to photograph my son Jude after he arrives.
Considering I’m a photographer, I’ll probably go nuts and take photos of him every single day, but what if you’re just a mother, great mother but not professional photographer? When is really the right time to take photos of your kids?
If you have a limited budget, yet you still want to capture all the most important moments in your child’s first year, I deeply advice you to find a photographer who’s style you love and who offers baby’s first year plan. These kind of plans usually offer several photo sessions during baby’s first year. You have to pay usually very small session fee for entire plan and after every session you choose how many prints (and which sizes) you want to buy.
So let’s start with some useful tips!
Maternity by Mili Walker
For maternity photos, I deeply advice to schedule your photo shoot when you’re 7 months +
I’m one of the kind, I already had a big belly at 3 months pregnancy, but most of the pregnant ladies start to show much later. Saying that, pregnant belly is usually most photogenic when you’re 7+ months.
Maternity by Mili Walker
Children
Newborn – the best time to take photos of newborn is within 10 days of birth. The best time to schedule your newborn photo session is during your pregnancy (soon as possible) and date should be 7-10 days after your due date. Your “due date” is always placed in my calendar and I look forward to hear from you just as soon as the baby is born. Typically the Dad will contact the studio within a day of the birth to schedule the newborn session.
The key to having a successful newborn photo shoot and achieving those “sleepy, curled up poses” is to photograph your newborn within the first 10 days of life. Newborns tend to sleep less and are difficult to “curl up” and pose once they reach the 10 day mark.
3 Months – At this age, your baby can lift head, knows parents. Usually at this stage they already start to show their unique personality and it’s such a fun talking photos of them!
Babies captured by Mili Walker
Baby
6 Months – Your baby sits (with mother’s support). This is great time for capturing close ups of your kids: parts of the body like legs, eyelashes, lips, naked bottoms, to make series of baby girl smelling flower or baby boy touching things etc.
12 months – This period is the next major change in your’s baby life. At this point your baby sits without support, most of the babies can even stand. They are very active and moving all the time, they know parents very well. It’s also ideal time for 1st birthday photo session and popular “smash the cake” shot.
When it comes to first year of your child’s life and if you really, really have to choose when you’re going to photograph your child, then these 4 phases (newborn, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months) are my recommendation.
What after this? If you asking me, take photos of your family often as possible, depending on your budget. I’d advice you at least once per year.
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There are three phases to awareness: to look, to see, and to perceive. A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives – Unknown
"Someone somewhere in summer time" by Mili Walker
