Tag: Beauty

Five Fairy Minutes
Photography

Five Fairy Minutes

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Iridescent soap bubbles floating across the windshield and hood of a white vintage car in warm afternoon sunlight, with a brick building in the background.

A little unexpected magic in the morning. One that I DELIBERATELY make.

When I go into my car trunk, I bring out my tiny bubble wand: a battery operated summer toy fan that blows bubbles instead of the ‘old school’ method of waving it around (technology!)

I blow bubbles over my car, my environment. I stand and twirl in them. I fill the street so you see them. And like bubbles do, they’re gone. just like that.

I have my Five Fairy Minutes and I pack it all away.

A few minutes to honor what my little kid inside likes: seeing bubbles whenever she wants. A moment to indulge in her love of prettiness and beauty.

I give her grown-up self permission to carry along the means to make them whenever and wherever she wants

to be part of the morning magic as well as see it.

Dorothy Perry senses her experiences of daily joy in her photography and portrait making ideas. Reach her at perryportraitart@gmail.com or through her contact page.

Senses of Beauty
Creativity · Dorothy Perry · Energy · Photography · Practice · Self-Development · Spirituality · Vision

Senses of Beauty

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two pictures together showing a woman's gesture and a spiritual hand posture.

When senses are expanded by the cultivated sense of smell,

like in perfume, incense or petrichor (the smell of rain falling),

it activates your appreciation and ability to be moved by beauty,

so YOU can see and feel what little beautiful daily things activate YOU.

A Japanese man writes speaks about just loving seeing raindrops on rainy days.

Blissing at rain drops on webs. Taking joy in a normal walk.

And the smell of rain falling.

These tiny joys in energy

are a joy of sensory magnitude.

Dorothy Perry sees daily joys for families and individuals. Reach her at perryportraitart@gmail.com or through her Contact Page.

Loving Cup
Creativity · Photography · Vision

Loving Cup

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Coffee is life. And energy.

I love making both.

My signed, limited edition ceramic mug is 11 oz for dark roast or Darjeeling,

my son’s hands signing LOVE to sweeten the brew.

ceramic mug with boys fingers signing out LOVE.

A single mug is sixty dollars (shipping incl.) through perryportraitart@gmail.com.

A warm sip to your success,

Dorothy Perry creates photographic objects that carry and contain personal energy. She runs her life on her intuition in Chicago.

On the Easel
Consciousness · Dorothy Perry · Energy · Family Portrait · Parenthood · Perry Portrait Art · Photography · Vision

On the Easel

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Today’s On The Easel is an infant’s portrait in natural light.

Very small infants are absolutely lovely while they observe their world around them. They truly embody the innate energy of innocence and presence

and the ‘beginners mind’ that so many major religions seek as wisdom.

I’d love to help record the fresh faces of newborns, toddlers and early youth that changes so quickly (don’t we moms know!)

Let’s talk about how to make yours special.

Prayer for A Bellydancer
Photography

Prayer for A Bellydancer

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I like men’s belly dance music.

And my algorithm brings forth

a channel of Turkish dancers.

All very wiry very tough guys in thrusts and hip rolls,

drums, violin, clarinet, other strings,

old guys with finger cymbals,

and fast, strong physical dancing my dance seeking rhythm really loves.

100% ALL MEN unless a grandma clapping on her seat.

Though these men are professionals, I am not really watching them in seductively dancing,

I am watching the style of some specific dancers.

And my crush: An unnamed performer with a fresh natural skill.

I saw a early reel with enthusiasm and a unique, natural enjoyment.

A little chubby guy with a great smile and an ease my inner dancer recognized.

Then tourist photos of him busking on the street, still smiling,

then at a wedding, in neat, nice haircut and nice shirt.

In time the thing done for the joy of it

will change in the routine of it,

the baby face will be changed by the hours and food

and stimulants and some places surgery.

Some stars deliberately cultivate gigantic ponderous bellies to jiggle.

I do not know him, but please protect his spirit and his smile in the cutthroat ocean he swims in.

Protect the groups he plays with, the people who help his life and livelihood.

And keep him safe from the ‘inspiration’ of the jelly bellied.

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The dancer in blue pants. I love his cheroot.

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And a fast-moving song my brain calls “the bak bak bak bak song” for fun. No dancers, just the music. Enjoy!

I photograph joyous dancing feeling

that stirs my feet, my hips, and my soul.

I Thank God for ways music enters my world.

Positioning
A Certain Way · Consciousness · Counterintuition · Creativity · Energy · Healing · Photography · Practice · Self-Development · Song Of Triumph · Spirituality · Vision

Positioning

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Face of toddler chlid swung upside down.


Counterintuition: an instant change of picture and response,

given by neuro and physical emotions saying, ‘this, instead‘.

It’s a part of your intuition and a place that comes from even further out / (or deeper);

a ‘wild card’ of deep knowing, immediately.

It requires trust in yourself like never before,

physically being in your body like never before,

which is the practice of inside body connection and inner communication

that builds mental and emotional strength to do other things,

and in that spirit, ultimately, the things you were meant to do.

Dorothy Perry, contacted here.

Given Wings
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Given Wings

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“Birds make great sky-circles

of their freedom.

How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,

they’re given wings.” ~ Rumi

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

The First Purple
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The First Purple

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The mercurial Midwest Spring has been hard on the beautiful flowers

that come up in the neighbors’ gardens.  

They come into the beautiful, shapes colors and scents

and sometimes into extended days of rain and chill that blast and freeze them.  

The lilac season came in the midst of rain and bone chilling temperatures.  

In a week, they had bloomed and then were gone.

I picked a wild branch, that true to all wild things, did not open, 

but found a blooming garden and stood there

(as long as my son let me)

breathing in the air of my childhood

being again as the little curious, exploring, growing child.

And with this brief meeting this season,

I ‘got’ how flowers are used as examples

to teaching the here and nowness of life: 

so beautifully, completely HERE

in their short season and time on Earth.  

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

Singled Out
Consciousness · Creativity · Energy · Manifesting · Photography · Self-Development · Song Of Triumph · Spirituality

Singled Out

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ALWAYS show

the vision of the types of photographs

you desire to make.

Your photograph with your optimistic energetic signature

lives in the internet ‘ether’ for years,

attracting for years as well,

and should be both your best

and your choice.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

Shower of Power
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Shower of Power

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The pieces of glass that clad this building

show their secrets of refraction when the light is just right.

I see person after person walk by,

deep in their thoughts and phones, 

unaware they are travelling through a shower of rainbows. 

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.

 Contact her studio for commissioned work here.