About hummanna / Anna Maj Michelson  

Hello there. I do sell photographs, but more importantly I support other artists and if you want to use a photo for a project (in which you aren´t making money) I would be happy to collaborate.

It´s better to ask to use a photo and negotiate something that works for you than to steal it and have me "run across" it on accident. That´s never fun.

I´ve edited my photo licenses to a Creative Commons for this reason. If you can make a little, possibly you can share a little. If you can´t but you still want to make the world beautiful, I will do what I can to help. I don´t appreciate requests for free photos on projects that someone else is profiting off of alone. Feel free to contact me with questions or doubts. I love to collaborate and see my images played with and published and so if you´re super poor, I´m sure we can figure out some sort of exchange. Besides all that nonsense, there is more about me below.




Starting to put some video up over at YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/amichelson

About me:

Born to SoCal hippy parents and raised on the beautiful coast of Oregon (northwest usa) in a tiny town called Otis. Lots of stories later, many places visited, things seen and unseen, I am now living in Sevilla, Spain.

I enjoy flickr as a photo storage site and part portfolio. I keep my family and friends updated with my life this way, thus there are all sorts of photos - work related, playful, basic daily shots, and many many unfinished, unpolished. You´ll have a lot of fun with dust spots in sky shots. It seems I´m not the only one when I visit the Nikon forums related to dust spots.

What I try to live by and share that others have shared with me:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

"The real voyage to discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust

"Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife." From Jonathan Schattke

"La realidad debería estar prohibida." Pedro Almodovar

"We all have bad thoughts and unpleasantness in us. If we make films of people who don't have these things then we make ourselves lonelier. We must be honest with ourselves." Jane Champion

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
-Dorothea Lange

Me on interestingness ; )
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