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Ice Queen II (Secret Garden)

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The Ice Queen is the first image in a new series called 'Secret Garden'....... After a very long photographic 'freeze' and creative block I have finally decided to return to the secret garden this winter and create new works within the garden world.... The Ice Queen represents the deep freeze of the Garden. She was sad as she could not find the beauty in the colorful flowers that danced around her....

The series revolves around 1 backdrop and 1 set in which I will be re-creating and re-imagining several times to create new characters within this world.... I challenge myself to stay in one set and to make those characters breathe life..... The backdrop is hand made and painted by myself.... The dress and head piece are also made by me, and the feathers are created by my friend "Rouge Pony"..... Many of the concepts will only have hand made pieces incorporated in them......

On a personal level..... The last few years I have gone through many up's and down's as a photographer and artist... Which I know that everyone experiences. I have always tried to keep my personal life as quiet as possible rarely voicing what happens and what effects me emotionally. Now I am 26 years old and have been taking photographs my whole life but really started creating when I was 19. Within those seven years I have felt that my work wasn't good enough, I have felt blessed by the positive words and crushed by the negative... I spent the last seven months only focusing on the business aspect of my photography which was mainly filled with client work, and though it is wonderful getting to work as a photographer, I kept telling my husband (yes I got married in sept :) that I felt like a part of my soul was missing.

I was going through a creative block and it hurt me emotionally and even physically at times..... but then something happened I decided I was going to take the negativity of the things that life has to offer me and make it into something worth telling a story about. In 2010 a very close family member of mine was diagnosed with an benign tumor she is still with us today, but she is not better. She fights everyday through pain and suffering and it is that strength that inspires me, and it is her strength and her constant support she shows me with my work that makes me not want to sit around feeling sorry for myself but instead to push for what I believe I should be creating and not what others want me to create...... I have dealt with an anxiety disorder since I was 16 years old and that too I have taken and turned into something to fight for. Photography allows me to break away from the constraints of my anxiety and is my therapy.....

I want to be as open now and hope that I might inspire anyone who is going through anything hard in their life. I hope I can show people that life is way too short to be creating for other people and it should always be about creating world and stories because YOU want them to breath life....

Beautiful things happen when you challenge yourself, and beautiful things happen when you let go and let in the beauty... xo

I will be keeping up to date with the series on my blog here: danielamajicphotography.com/es…

The Ice Queen:
Model: Marissa F
Make-up by Katie Foster
Hair by Jillian Di Bernardo
Image size
800x1000px 559.72 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D800
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/2.2
Focal Length
135 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Mar 30, 2014, 3:51:34 PM
Sensor Size
3mm
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