Author Archive
April 5, 2012 by Anya Elise
one quarter of a century || my 25th year
When I was a child, I always imagined 25 to be the age of sophistication. The age where you dress in pencil skirts and smart jackets every day for work; have a well-decorated, tidy apartment; and eat things like poached eggs with hollandaise sauce for breakfast. Then I turned 24 and realized that such […]
April 3, 2012 by Anya Elise
staying, doing || tiny Tuesday thoughts
“The staying and doing it, in spite of everything.” from Wild by Cheryl Strayed This sums up my journey with starting a photography business thus far, almost perfectly, though Ms. Strayed isn’t speaking about business at all. If you’ve ever tried to do something large, and unknowable, and full of muchness, then you know this […]
April 2, 2012 by Anya Elise
an ambassador and American hikers || For the Denver Post
(The three American hikers and Suzanne Nossel, executive director for Amnesty International USA, left, are interviewed by local TV news outlets.) I covered my first full, eight-hour shift as a freelance photographer for The Denver Post this past Saturday. It was exhilarating, sometimes overwhelming, and an all-around a fantastic experience. (Though I definitely had a […]
March 29, 2012 by Anya Elise
struggles and theFIX || the business of photography
He was outnumbered 20 to 1. The joke was, if you came here as a single man – the odds were absolutely in your favor! (No, that wasn’t a subtle nod to The Hunger Games, but if it had been now would be the time for me to tell you to go see the movie […]
March 26, 2012 by Anya Elise