Some people say.
“Living well is the best revenge.”
I feel that living well
is ‘mental’ before it becomes material.
Seeing vastness of abundance
(visually, spoken, or in emotional feeling)
in the early dreaming planning stages
of envisioning great feeling life
enriches the picture with the small details
that make whatever you create
just right for you.
Dorothy Perry loves being a cheerleader for intuitive awareness. Contact her for photography or intuitive readings here.
To do justice: to treat or show (something or someone) in a way that is as good as it should be.
When we are active in our busy lives every day,
we don’t think about the photographs that ‘live’ after us.
But consider: what photos will family remember you by?
Amateur photos and selfies don’t always do us justice.
Have portraits with vitality and energy to choose from.
Meet someone that values and captures your personality.
My images of families and dynamic couples are calming, inspiring,
and beautifully displayed in elegant albums and framed art.
An amazing energetic now, for valued memory later.
Of you, your loved ones, or your life’s passion.
Images to do you justice.
Dorothy Perry photographs sensitive people and intimate events. Contact her here.
The image was a beautiful moment in the ceremony, deep within the photo, taken by a guest in the wedding party.
The groom is a photographer friend, and I know so well the axiom that “the shoemaker’s kids have no shoes,”
and how a photographer may sometimes never own any decent photos of their own important life events.
I saw another moment within the image – to be ‘brought out’ and brightened, so that it can be seen – and felt.
The difference between retouching and my creative ‘caress’ is that I use a quieter, more intuitive eye to see the newer photograph inside the original one, not just a cropping. I wrote another post about the technique in a June 6, 2020 post, Finding A Something More.
So happily honored to see that the bride posts this as her profile photo online. I wish Daphne and Jeff Happy Anniversary, and many dances together to come!
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
Contact her for commissioned work here. Thank you.
The most valuable lesson I have learned from my mentors is that
A portrait has to be framed.
so your children can grow up
seeing their lives celebrated in picture form
in art they see around their home.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago photographer of family portraits, modern headshots and personal milestone celebrations. Contact her here.
“I’m going to miss this show.”
This student used to come to the UIC African American Art Gallery
to do her home work and study along with other students:
making art, practicing yoga, and on Finals week,
even eating breakfast there!
It occurred to me that I had made an art show
that successfully created a zone of energy.
For four months, 11 photographs in the AACC gallery
imbued the space with energy,
serving as an artistic ‘power station’ –
and creating a room that felt really nice to rest in.
This show working with vibration worked beyond my expectations,
and created an idea for future exhibitions, rich with potential.
Dorothy Perry can be contacted here.
I have a studio photograph of my parents as a middle aged married couple,
a posed portrait with her best outfit on, leaning on my dad’s back,
both with pleasant, fixed smiles.
This is the same pose we always have of ourselves through school, printed in the yearbooks, and remembered by friends.
But years later the children have only these photographs to recall their fathers, mothers, and beloved partners. What is remembered of their sparkle and vitality?
It is no accident the photograph of my parents my sisters share the most is one of them as childhood sweethearts in their youth and energy, graceful in the naturalness of that candid, immediate moment.
And it is kismet that years later, I find it is the seed of my creative technique in my search to capture real emotions for the romantic parents I love to photograph.
It stems from my desire to capture livelier, more engaged and energized portraits of mothers and fathers, photographing parents as the childhood sweethearts and lifelong soulmates they are.
My portraits are moments between two people in love, showing tenderness and affection. Glowing from true feelings inside for life and each other.
This intimate portrait is a gift that keeps on giving.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
Contact Dorothy here.
This just seemed like yesterday.
You can’t stop them from growing;
but you can stop time.
The lazy afternoons of childhood
are preserved by the warmth of sunlight,
the immediacy of memory,
and joyous moments at play.
I specialize in personal photojournalism
made into photo stories and books.
Lets’ meet throughout Chicagoland
and great parks near you.
Dorothy Perry is a mom, grandmom, and artistic photographer of childhood in the Chicagoland area. Lets talk at perryportraitart@gmail.com or through the Contact Page here.
Paraphrased from Philippians 4:8:
“…Whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,
— if anything is excellent or praiseworthy —
think about such things.”
My focus as a witness and photographer
is to bring a good vibe into the event
and capture its effect on others.
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.
I go online and Google myself sometimes, and saw an 2006 post from a fellow photographer, riffing on the theme of being a psychic photographer based on an ad I had written for my services. (To read the original post, click here.)
It was good-natured, but it stung a little that I had tried so carefully to describe what I did, only to have it be the butt of someone’s joke. And it apparently had still been smouldering, since it had caught my attention during a moment I had not expected.
I think to practice ones’ gift is to know that many times, it will be misunderstood.
The difference is that now I am choosing to see these kinds of situations with a mindset of appreciation for what it teaches – (even though I could not see it while it was happening.)
Some memories arise to a neutral, dispassionate view that acknowledges that yes, something happened, and despite potential for a cautionary tale, yes, it is done.
Others create laughter: I can take a deep breath and smile at challenges to my ego or my vanity. And others can be seen with compassion for a young person’s mis-reading of emotion and information.
When this comes up again in the Slideshow of my Mind,
I will choose to see and feel it differently.
I’ll bring a gentle, open, and curious self to those formative incidents,
especially ones that ‘ring up’ old memories or create unexpected charges of emotion.
I see it in the light of day,
the drama of the story dissolving.
I see it now for the best for everyone involved.
The energy of releasing old stories affects people differently.
Sometimes the act of getting it out happens quickly,
and other times, I have to let it work its way and have its say quietly,
as there is more under the surface that takes time to unfold.
The years since have created someone new:
Someone with a dream, even when another cannot see it (or see it yet.)
With that vision, even the irritations of life are welcomed for the ‘pearl’ created.
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.
A bit of counter-intuition for friends, photographers, and everyone in between:
Don’t be so eager to photograph the daily treasured moments of your life
above all else.
To be in ‘pictures or it didn’t happen’ mode, twenty-four seven.
To be removed from the reality of interaction with family, children, experiences.
Take time to enjoy and feel the depth and beauty of what you witness.
Bring the energy of your presence – go quiet –
be fully there.
Even a second of this type of connecting brings this beautiful state of present energy to the photographer –
and within the photographs you create.✨
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
