Natural Light Portrait Photography
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.
Your world
is being created
every moment
through HOW YOU SPEAK OF IT
to others –
but especially to yourSELF.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago photographer whose intuition guides her viewfinder. Contact her here or perryportraitart@gmail.com.
To woo the power full new Me
is my current raison d’etre.
Life, you can’t subdue me because I refuse to take your discipline too seriously.
When you try to hurt me, I laugh — and the laughter knows no pain.
I appreciate your joys wherever I find them;
your sorrows neither frighten nor discourage me,
for there is laughter in my soul.
Temporary defeat does not make me sad.
I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song.
Your tears are not for me, for I like laughter much better, and because I like it,
I use it as a substitute for grief and sorrow and pain and disappointment.
Life, you are a fickle trickster — don’t deny it.
You slipped the emotion of love into my heart
so that you might use it as a thorn with which to prick my soul —
but I learned to dodge your trap with laughter.
You tried to lure me with the desire for gold,
but I have fooled you by following the trail which leads to knowledge instead.
You induced me to build beautiful friendships —
then converted my friends to enemies so you may harden my heart,
but I sidestepped your figure on this by laughing off your attempts
and selecting new friends in my own way.
You caused men to cheat me at trade so I will become distrustful,
but I won again because I possess one precious asset which no man can steal —
it is the power to think my own thoughts and to be myself.
You threaten me with death, but to me death is nothing worse
than a long peaceful sleep, and sleep is the sweetest of human experiences
— excepting laughter.
You build a fire of hope in my heart, then sprinkle water on the flames,
but I can go you one better by rekindling the fire — and I laugh at you once more.
You have nothing that can lure me away from laughter,
and you are powerless to scare me into submission.
To a life of laughter, then, I raise my cup of cheer!
Laughing all the way, I celebrate your own Songs of Triumph in portrait form. Contact me here.
Imagine learning someone waited patiently for years
for the best moment to break your heart and trust in others.
A seismic jolt to the core of me
at a time I was happiness on two legs,
ecstatic at my first solo show and at what
had manifested visibly so quickly in my life.
I am reminded of the Old West idea of a gunslinger.
The guy has such a vibe that everyone tries him;
everywhere a stranger stepping up to challenge him
with triggered, “knock you off your high horse” behavior.
Even with an attempt to make my memory a poignant anniversary,
I declared that I would see my special event joyously again.
I decided to reclaim my true energy signature around my exhibition and my artwork.
During my show’s run, I visited my photos, geeked out at the small details,
smiled, sang and felt good all up and down those hallways.
My little ‘sparkler’ awakened by my vulnerable questions
is a firecracker in my daily life, moving out all the nonsense
wanting and wasting her Dorothy’s valuable energy.
And no matter who tried to hate on it –
some with closer proximity than others –
I got its signal stream running clear again.
Dorothy creates portraits imbued with deep feeling. Contact her here.
Dorothy Perry specializes in personal portraits imbued with deep feeling. Contact her here.
