This is super inspiring to me.

Wonderful statement, wonderful link, nothing less than expected ;o)
Bless you for the post about THE VIEW...

Perfect timing. I just took a couple quick shots of a friend of my husbands trying to teach our daughter how to slow dance (for an upcoming school dance) she's 11 and the moment was totally scrabable but the photos weren't anywhere near perfect! I will scrap them anyway! thanks for my daily dose of IT IS OK!
Very cool!

Well hello Oprah of scrappin! LOL! That was a great article! Thanks for sharing. Hope you are having a good day today. Snowing here!YEAH!!!! Can you say Great Pics!!!

Ever since I started reading your blog I find myself turning the flash off more & more. In fact, I just took some shots of my 2 year old "washing" the dishes yesterday and did a few without the flash that ended up with bits of blur, then a few with the flash. I definitely loved the warm feel of slightly imperfect shots way more than the ones with the flash.
Thanks for sharing that article, great ideas!

oh man, i have to share this on my blog too.

ali, cool quote.
now go back over to his blog and see his post about calling you the OPRAH OF SCRAPBOOKING! how true!!!
you rock!
tara

Ali! Did you see what Michael wrote about YOU in his blog? SOO very cool!

Thank you for sharing this with us. I am a recovering (sometimes not) perfectionist. And he is so right. So right. The need for things to be perfect can be paralyzing.

You inspire me!
Keep up all the stuff! Love that stack of photos!
J

Thanks for the link ... what a wise man! Kim

Ali-thanks for the post-Thanks to you I have turned off my flash, and I have loved the results, but I have been struggling with the photos that turned out to not be quite perfect. This post really was inspirational-It also seems you have been described as the "Oprah" of scrapbooking and I was just thinking that thought the other day about you. You offer yourself so freely through this blog and all of your other endeavors. I have learned so much from you and I am really starting to view myself as a true artist in this and other areas of my life- It is a liberating feeling. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I promise to continue passing your life wisdom.

Ali- the Oprah of Scarpbooking??? I think I agree!!

Since I started using my new camera with the ability to turn off the flash, I never use the flash. The pictures are so much better without the forced light. Sometimes I shoot the same picutre w/flash and wo/flash, and the no flash phota ALWAYS wins as best picture. I love shooting indoors w/o a flash. I was surprised at how well the photos turned out w/o flash indoors. It has been really fun playing with it!

hmm. i guess i disagree a little. certainly fear holds us back, but is striving for perfection necessarily a bad thing? afterall, there are certain times in life where perfection is vital. if i'm going in for brain surgery, i want to be sure the surgeon has perfected his skill! as perfection relates to photography, it seems the idea of perfection is fairly relative. for someone like mike, turning the flash off creates the look he is trying to achieve; which might be called his idea of perfection!

i am all about the perfect moment not the perfect picture...great read! TFS Oprah!!! ;o)

"You must give up perfection! Perfectionism only provokes fear and fear is what holds us back in pretty much every area of our lives."
That is so true concerning most things in my own life. I think I will make some form of art with that last sentence to hang in my space. Thanks for pointing him out. And I've just been experimenting with not using my flash in the past week.

I love turning my flash off because the photos are so much more tangible, but I have been struggling with blur and out of focus..I only have asmall camera. I have been trying to use more of my 'imperfect pictures' and I am liking the result..thanks great link
Rachel

I totally agree with Rachel! I LOVE imperfect pictures!!!
Mike Colon is THE man!! Such an inspiration!
Glad to see other's appreciating what he has to say as well!

Great quote for my fear word this year, thanks for sharing

Added Mike Colon's blog to my favorites.
"Embrace imperfection" yes?!

Ali, so weird, my hubby and I are Cali people and our wedding photographer was none other than Mike Colon. He introduced my hubby and I to 'photojournalism' style pics and we have tried to copy it ever since. If you're ever in the 'burg (Roseburg) I have 300+ pics of a pretty little wedding, if I do say so my self, so stop and by and check them out. Mike is AMAZING.

you know miss ali, i came back to this post because i was surfing Open Source Photo. anyway, i remember when i first read your post about mike. i'm a photographer and have loved his stuff from the get-go. so when i saw you link to him, i shot him an email and told him that you had linked him. I told him you were one of the top names in Scrapbooking and might as well have had Oprah endorse him as far as scrapbookers are concerned! hahaha!
i had a chance to meet mike at WPPI in vegas. he's a super sweet, and super tall guy! I introduced myself to him and he giggled about the whole scrapbooking thing!
anyway, basically this comment is pointless - hahah! just thought i'd re-visit and comment since i mostly lurk here!
congratulations on all of your achievements and your hubby's too! and thanks for putting so much appreciation into photography. it really makes us happy

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