elevators…..

crown jewels......//©anetteskuggedal

…..an incredible soul told me that life was like an elevator…. [a long story]…..and in many ways that metaphor stays with me as I wonder down life’s highway….and I guess as we struggle to understand what the heck life is all about……we need to enjoy the ride………one of the floors that I tend to linger on a tad too long at times..but all so necessary….. is inspiration……and in my view it all has to do with stories…

…stories of the heart…of the soul…. of cities…. of passion……of truths….of compassion…..intertwined in the balance of their opposites in life…….

nyc stories…..rc//©anetteskuggedal

nyc stories... moma views...//©anetteskuggedal
nyc stories.......moma gardens //©anetteskuggedal
nyc stories.....life passes by...//©anetteskuggedal

in spi ra tion |ˌinspəˈrā sh ən|noun1 the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative

inspiration • the quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something• a person or thing that stimulates in this way

• a sudden brilliant, creative, or timely idea

2 the drawing in of breath; inhalation.• an act of breathing in; an inhalation.

ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [divine guidance] ): via Old French from late Latin inspiratio(n-), from the verb inspirare (see inspire ).

A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. –

irving penn