“Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it’s heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain
85mm | f/2.5 | 1/200 | ISO 800
Erin Konrath │ Erin Konrath Photography {Chicago, Illinois}
In that moment I saw one as she was and the other as who she will be.
35mm | f/8 | 1/800 | ISO 100
Juli Isola │ Juli Isola Photography {San Clemente, California}
“Some houses hide the fact
That children shelter there.
Ours boasts it quite openly,
The signs are everywhere.”
– Excerpt from the poem ‘Excuse This House’
Author Unknown
35mm | f/3.2 | 1/500 | ISO 400
Sonja Hardy │ Bobo + Peep Photography {Winnipeg, Manitoba}
“Lay me down in fields of clover
And be as still as you can
A bee will come and light upon
The flower in my hand
And I wont be scared of bees no more
No I wont be scared of bees no more
No more” – Kalee Hric
35mm | f/2.2 | 1/2000 | ISO 125
Julia Cooke │ A Rock and a Soft Place {Galata, Istanbul, Turkey}
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.” – Wendell Berry
35mm | f/1.6 | 1/4000 | ISO 200
Holly Donovan │ Holly Donovan Photo {Chicago, Illinois}
“A boy is truth with dirt on his face, beauty with a cut on his finger, wisdom with bubble gum in his hair,
and hope of the future with a frog in his pocket.” – Author Unknown
35mm | f/1.4 | 1/3200 | ISO 250
DeAnna McCasland │ DeAnna McCasland Photography {Fredericksburg, Virginia}
All she ever wanted.
35mm | f/1.8 | 1/50 | ISO 1600
Kim Hilliard │ Kim Hill Photography {Montgomery, Alabama}
50mm | f/2.8 | 1/250 | ISO 3200
Jenn Martin Spangenberg │ Pretty in Pics Photography {Chicago, Illinois}
Tara Marie Jurevicius │ Little White Feather Photography {Springdale, Arkansas}
Guest Contributor
“I can choose to let it define me, confine me, refine me, outshine me,
or I can choose to move on and leave it behind me.” – Your beautiful life
22mm | f/ 6.7 | 1/350 | ISO 1000
Eve Rashid | Photos by Eve Rashid {Kansas City, Missouri}