daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Monday, October 31, 2011

October 31, 2011




If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
- George Gobal

Sunday, October 30, 2011

October 30, 2011



With watercolor, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow sifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a window pane. Watercolor perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
- Andrew Wyeth

Saturday, October 29, 2011

October 29, 2011






A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
- Author Unknown

Friday, October 28, 2011

October 28, 2011





A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
- V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives

Thursday, October 27, 2011

October 27, 2011





I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
- Fred Frith

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

October 26, 2011






In play there are two pleasures for your choosing -

The one is winning, and the other losing.
- Lord Byron

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

October 25, 2011





Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein


Monday, October 24, 2011

October 24, 2011





We all play characters, but it's really united on the ensemble concept. Everybody is always telling a story. Even if you're just standing there holding a chair, you are the person narrating, or the person acting out the narration.
- Tom Demenkoff

Sunday, October 23, 2011

October 23, 2011




While digital photography has removed the previous time consuming tasks of developing film and making prints in the darkroom, it now requires many more hours of culling, selecting and editing until only a very few photographs have been distilled from the hundreds shot during a session.
- Rick Doble

Saturday, October 22, 2011

October 22, 2011



I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
- Robert Altman

Friday, October 21, 2011

October 21, 2011





Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence

Thursday, October 20, 2011

October 20, 2011




The camera can photograph thought.
- Dirk Bogarde

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

October 19, 2011



You know where you are with an honest pair of socks.

- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

October 18, 2011



It's like pulling a string on a bad sweater,”
- Tom DeLay

Monday, October 17, 2011

October 17, 2011


I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
- Zoolander

Sunday, October 16, 2011

October 16, 2011




The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi, football coach for the NFL

Saturday, October 15, 2011

October 15, 2011



There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better.
- Stephen Morris

Friday, October 14, 2011

October 14, 2011




Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs

Thursday, October 13, 2011

October 13, 2011



(Professional) photographers are like Hookers: at first we started doing it because we liked it and it felt good, then we kept doing it but only for our friends, and NOW we're still doing it but are charging money for doing it!
- Dean Collins

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

October 12, 2011



From whence arrived the praying mantis?
From outer space, or lost Atlantis?
glimpse the grin, green metal mug
at masks the pseudo-saintly bug,
Orthopterous, also carnivorous,
And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us.
- Ogden Nash, "The Praying Mantis"

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

October 11, 2011




No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet.

- C.S. Lewis

Monday, October 10, 2011

October 10, 2011


To eat an egg, you must break the shell.
- Jamaican Proverb

Sunday, October 9, 2011

October 09, 2011






A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
- Anne Taylor Fleming

Saturday, October 8, 2011

October 08, 2011



Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
Feed the birds," that's what she cries
While overhead, her birds fill the skies
- Mary Poppins, "Feed the Birds"

Friday, October 7, 2011

October 07, 2011


Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence

Thursday, October 6, 2011

October 06, 2011

Creativity with portraits involves the invocation of a state of rapport when only a camera stands between two people...mutual vulnerability and mutual trust.
- Minor White, Mirrors, messages, manifestations by Minor White

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

October 05, 2011





Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart.
- Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

October 04, 2011




When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Monday, October 3, 2011

October 03, 2011






Patrick: I won an award!
Spongebob: You won an award!
Patrick: And I didn't even do anything!

- Spongebob Squarepants

Sunday, October 2, 2011

October 02, 2011





You shake and shake the ketchup bottle, none will come, and then a lot'll.

- Kate & Leopold

Saturday, October 1, 2011

October 01, 2011




These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

- George Eliot