Challenge Accepted: Expensive Art on a Thrift Store Budget

“Heeeyyyyy Madeline! Wanna participate in a little thingy I'm doing!?! I had this idea, and I'm pretty sure it's brilliant…”   Of course, if a message starts like this, it’s definitely going to pique my interest. And if that message involves some sort of photography challenge, you better believe I’m going to say yes. Throw in the fact that said message is coming from my friend, Robert Cornelius (who is basically a photoshop god), I’m sold. No convincing necessary. Which is why, last Sunday, my roommates were trying their best to pretend it was completely normal for me to be [...]

By |2018-02-19T10:33:16-05:00February 19th, 2018|Behind the Scenes, New Piece|6 Comments

The First Green Rider Book Soundtrack Image Is Here!

This post is something I have been wanting to share with you for a very long time… really since immediately after shooting the images for the Green Rider book soundtrack artwork. When I packed up the last costume and drove away from the shoot that late September afternoon, all I wanted to do was to dive into all the incredible images and let you see everything that was created. But sometimes images (and life) have a mind of their own, and so I’ve been very (im)patiently working towards the day when I could finally write up this post and share [...]

By |2017-11-09T18:53:35-05:00November 9th, 2017|Green Rider, New Piece|0 Comments

An Ominous Name for an Enchanting Location

Last month, I found perhaps the most surreal location I have ever been able to shoot at. And while its name, Purgatory Chasm, may sound rather ominous, my recent trip to this state park in southern Massachusetts actually proved to be anything but. In fact, after spending the day there with my friend and fellow photographer Aleah, climbing through forests and incredible rock formations, I believe I’ve actually found a new favorite location! As we climbed over huge boulders dotted with ferns, beneath broadly rooted trees, and over bubbling streams that wound through mossy stepping stones, I felt like I [...]

By |2017-07-12T09:41:44-04:00July 12th, 2017|New Piece|2 Comments

She’s Not Just for Children: Three New Pieces Inspired by Mother Goose

. . "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go. Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath Day, Is fair and wise and good and gay. - Mother Goose   I first heard the poem Monday’s Child several years ago. It was a beautiful late summer afternoon, and I had just spent the day photographing my youngest sister in the flowerbeds of our back garden. Attempting (and failing) to find a [...]

By |2017-05-22T15:58:43-04:00April 26th, 2017|New Piece|0 Comments

The Diversities of Gifts

The story behind the creation of The Diversities of Gifts is one of many close calls. Many times I told myself “I can’t do this. I won’t be ready in time. I’ll just finish this photo later.” But a New Year’s resolution I made back in January helped me to push through and complete the task. To finally, after three long years, finish Daughters of the King. I don’t believe I’ve felt such an immense amount of relief since I took my last exam in April of 2013, a few short days before I graduated from university and said goodbye [...]

By |2017-05-22T16:00:28-04:00December 21st, 2016|New Piece|2 Comments

How Just 20 Seconds Changed My Year

[eltd_blockquote text="“All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” (Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo)" title_tag="p" width=""]   It takes twenty seconds to start packing your bags. Twenty seconds to back your car out of the driveway. Twenty seconds to make that right turn and merge onto the highway. Twenty seconds to open your car door and take those first few hesitant steps towards their front door... A series of insanely courageous twenty seconds can lead you somewhere at first terrifying, [...]

By |2016-10-19T10:33:45-04:00October 19th, 2016|New Piece|2 Comments

New Piece Today! Line Upon Line

Why does knowledge exist? If you answered “to allow us to discover and create”, you’d be right. If you answered “to help us function”, you’d also be right. You’d even be right if you answered “to prevent us from eating that fifth cookie” (or trying to at least...). In reality, there are an endless amount of answers to this question, but today, with the release of my new image Line Upon Line, I want to talk about one reason in particular: service.     As part of my Daughters of the King Series, this piece represents the Young Womens value Knowledge. Much [...]

By |2016-09-20T15:53:05-04:00September 20th, 2016|New Piece|0 Comments

New Piece Today: Magic’s Origin!

I once read somewhere that your 20s are the hardest decade of your life. Being only 26 years old, and with much of my life still yet to be lived, I can’t really say whether or not this is true. I do know, however, that for myself, the 20s have been a rather difficult decade so far, and I’ve only just passed the halfway mark. My story for today begins on a chilly Spring night in April nearly two months ago. I was experiencing what my older self will undoubtedly look back on as an episode of immature, “woe-is-me” sulking. [...]

By |2016-06-29T22:55:42-04:00June 29th, 2016|New Piece|0 Comments

In Her Tongue is the Law of Kindness

  In Her Tongue is the Law of Kindness   It’s always a mix of excitement and fear when I release a new piece.   All the weeks (and sometimes months) of hard work spent imagining and creating, conveyed in one image and one blog post. It’s a little bit intimidating to think of what people will see or how they will react when they see my piece for the first time. At the same time, though, I find it to be rewarding in a way. To finally see the realization of what was once just an abstract image in [...]

By |2016-05-17T23:25:59-04:00May 17th, 2016|New Piece|2 Comments

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