We recently connected with Emily Adolph and have shared our conversation below.
Emily, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Innovation comes in all shapes, sizes and across all industries, so we’d love to hear about something you’ve done that you feel was particularly innovative.
I love getting creative and thinking of ideas that can help others to feel empowered or find ways to give back to the community.
A few years ago I started a photo series initiative called “Tell Your Story”
The purpose of this photo series was to help empower others through their life experiences – whether it was a weight loss journey, overcoming an abusive relationship, or starting a business. Everyone has a story to tell, and it’s important for us to understand that we are not alone in our journeys.
Emily, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
Yes, thank you. I am so excited to be here!
When I was a young girl I would get lost in my family photo albums. There was something mesmerizing and intriguing about experiencing moments that were trapped in time through a simple photograph. I felt like I could look at the picture and imagine myself in that place, and what it would feel like, or what people were saying or doing. It was a fun way to let my imagination run wild!
I also had a fascination with fashion magazines and modeling. I was obsessed with poses, clothes, hair, and makeup. All of it. I also found myself taking photos with our family’s 35mm camera. I would capture random people, places, and thing’s. I just loved the camera and capturing moments in time.
It was in my late 20s that I started my journey as a freelance photographer. I would photograph family and friends, as well as random objects, just to get used to the digital camera. From there, I built up my portfolio to include a variety of things, but nature is my favorite to photograph. There’s something magical about capturing the world around us.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
To be honest, just the fun flow of experiencing my inner creativity. Allowing myself to connect with my intuition and imagination. It’s fun to run wild with the thoughts, ideas and feelings that surface so I can then visualize them into something real and tangible.
Not every idea is a good one, but that’s how we learn, right? I mean, what is the point of this life if we aren’t having fun and creating as well as learning along the way.
When we are creating we are being free to experience our genuine feelings, emotions, desires and aiming to draw them closer to us through the creative mind. This is where we bring our inner being to the surface. It is the place where dreams are visualized, created, and manifested.
Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.
From my perspective, we are all creative beings.
I find some of us have just closed off that part of ourselves, whether it was from another person diminishing us, or telling us we aren’t good enough or we can’t do something – whatever it might be. When those things happen (negative chatter) we collapse the field of infinite intelligence and stop the flow of our inner being and creative mind.
But this can be reversed.
Once we work through those bounds placed upon us by others, and release them from our subconscious mind, it’s amazing how our creative mind begins to flow effortlessly with ease and becomes limitless.
The only limits are that upon which we place on ourselves through our own mind.
Free your mind and the rest will follow.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.emilyannephoto.com
Image Credits
Photos are credit of myself, Emily Anne Photography. The images of people are: 1. Humpty Hump (music rapper with the microphone and nose cover) 2. Vanilla Ice (music rapper tossing water into the crowd)