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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Published in Where Women Create-Llano Earth Art Festival


Hello Friends!I'm thrilled to share something a little bit different, a little bit magical, and a whole lot of awesome with all of you. 
This past April, it was my pleasure to photograph the second annual Llano Earth Art Festival in beautiful Llano, Texas exclusively for Where Women Create Magazine.


So....what is LEAF, you might be asking right about now? 
Well, like I said, it's pure magic, but a bit of exposition is in order. 



 Festival organizer Binky Morgan,  
(the beautiful lady above ),
and the entire LEAF team of visionaries 
worked tirelessly to make this joyous, 
multi-sensory experience happen 
on the banks of the Llano River. 

It's all about Earth, and Art ( and Earth Art! ),
workshops, land art installations, music, fashion, and so, so much more. 


But above all else, it's home to the National Rock Stacking Championship, which is a gravity-defying form of creative expression which astonishes and confounds in equal measure.
























You can read all about LEAF 
in the Nov/Dec/Jan 2017 issue of 
Where Women Create Magazine,
on newsstands now. 

And to learn more about LEAF, 
be sure to click 



Thank you to Where Women Create Magazine, 
and Binky Morgan for the privilege 
of collaborating on this project, 

And a great big thank you 
to my expert photographer buddies 
Cynthia Lively and Lou Quallenberg 
for contributing their own stellar photos to this piece. 

Happy Holidays, 
and the best to each of you! 


Best,
Anne

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

That Someone


Inspiration.

It's not always a what, 
sometimes it's a who.


The lady above is Jill Thompson Elliott.
Wife and mom, owner/proprietor of 
Haberdashery Boutique in Fredericksburg, Texas, 
and a wonderfully intuitive photographer. 

If I told her that she does it all well, 
and with preternatural grace, 
she would just crinkle up that cute nose of hers 
and correct me, albeit graciously. 

She knows that what looks and seems effortless 
is usually anything but. 
And I know it, too. 

But don't we all sometimes 
look dolefully at "that someone" who seemingly 
has it all together? The one who has figured out 
the secret to having it all and doing it all,...
being that woman that we all aspire to be? 

What we see is superficially viewed through 
our own experiences, our own failings, 
and a huge, heaping pile of misconceptions. 

The woman who "has it all", that someone
is a woman who has laughed and cried, and sacrificed. 
She has suffered great joy and crushing losses, 
sometimes in equal measure. 

She has laid awake crying, silently working out 
in her sleepless mind the "how's and why's and when's",
and how to wisely navigate the curve-balls 
that life invariably hits us with. 

She is Jill Thompson Elliott, 
and a thousand other women I know 
and admire. 
And yeah, right here and right now, 
today, she is that someone who I want to 
acknowledge as making an impact on my life. 

This post will surprise her, no doubt, 
but that's kinda the point. 

It's nice when we are going about our everyday lives, 
just doing what we do without any fanfare, 
expecting no notice or recognition, 
someone sneaks up on you... 
kind of like I did in that photo I snapped of Jill,,,
and says, 
"pssssst....hey you...you're pretty okay, ya know?  
you made an impact, and you are an inspiration?"

Readers, keep being who you are, 
because chances are, 
YOU are that someone to someone else. 


Best,
Anne


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