http://aliciad.typepad.com/alicia_d/ alicia d. photography - Salt Lake City en-US 2011-09-01T14:35:38-06:00 http://aliciad.typepad.com/alicia_d/2011/09/httpwwwadocaescombrbestbuy2html.html http://www.adocaes.com.br/bestbuy2.html <p><br/> <br/></p> <p class="asset asset-link"> <a href="http://www.adocaes.com.br/bestbuy2.html">http://www.adocaes.com.br/bestbuy2.html</a> </p> Alicia Johnson 2011-09-01T14:35:38-06:00 http://aliciad.typepad.com/alicia_d/2010/02/eve-ensler-tedindia-2009.html I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!!! Check out Eve talking about Embracing our Inner Girl! http://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_embrace_your_inner_girl.html <p>I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!!! Check out Eve talking about Embracing our Inner Girl!</p> <p>http://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_embrace_your_inner_girl.html</p> Story Telling Alicia Johnson 2010-02-11T17:15:49-07:00 http://aliciad.typepad.com/alicia_d/2010/01/a-photographers-magic.html I believe in the photographer's magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance.... <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; ">I believe in the photographer&#39;s magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour.</span></span></span></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; ">To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance.&#0160;<span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; font-size: small; "><em><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; "><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; font-size: small; "><em><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; ">He respects classic disciplines, while at the same time insists on being fast, modern and wild.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; ">-&#0160;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="showquotes.aspx%3Fid=731&amp;name=Nasser,Amyn"><em><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 9px; ">Amyn Nasser</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p>&#0160;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; "><font face="Arial">Can one disagree with such elegance about a photographer’s magic? A camera is a relatively simple contraption – a lens, a mirror and a method of capture, be it film or a digital sensor and photography, in general, seems fairly simple – just point and shoot – so-to-speak.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; "><font face="Arial">But I challenge that idea! I subscribe to the philosophy that looks are deceiving. Just as someone who types isn’t always a writer, someone who presses the shutter button isn’t always a photographer.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: small; "><a href="http://aliciad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d942953ef012876a7f35c970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false" style="float: right;"><img alt="Nicole Jones_IMG_3674export" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d942953ef012876a7f35c970c " src="http://aliciad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d942953ef012876a7f35c970c-500wi" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" /></a></span>The philosophy I subscribe to notes this… The moment matters, big or small, unique or mundane, it always matters. It’s the combination of camera equipment and imagination that surrenders that moment to the eternities.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12px; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">Surely, I am n</span>o </span><a href="http://www.anseladams.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">Ansel Adams</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">, or even a </span><a href="http://jinkyart.com.au/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">Jinky</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">, </span><a href="http://www.cheryljacobsportraits.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">, or</span><a href="http://www.davidjay.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; "> David Jay</span></a><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; ">, nor do I pertain to be. But I’m developing this craft and this I know – it’s a lot easier to shoot what the camera says is “right” than what the imagination, that is the photographer’s magic, says is possible.</span></font></span></p><p></p> Story Telling Alicia Johnson 2010-01-04T19:30:05-07:00