Royall Jo

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My picture- Chicago

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Visiting Virginia to photograph a home and our pups had the best day (photo by me)

[amyjoroyall]

Write about the talking whale... the one that is trapped in your imagination, desperate to get out.

Finding Neverland

[jeanpolfus]

"[He] was, after all, a serious photographer trying to capture a moment, perhaps not realizing that tripping the shutter captures nothing, that everything on the ground glass changes before the light hits the film plane. What the camera allows you to do is to invent, to create. That’s really what photographs are. Not records of moments, but rather imaginative acts."

- Thomas King, The Truth about Stories

Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

[books-foreverandalways]

“Oh, you’re one of those,” the princess said. “One of what?” “One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth…?” The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. “Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I’d have lain down and died waiting.”

Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta (via books-foreverandalways)

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Photography by Amy Jo Royall

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Photography by Amy Jo Royall

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Photography by Amy Jo Royall

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Photography by Amy Jo Royall

[amyjoroyall]

It is crazy how much I love my in-laws. I feel pretty dang lucky. 

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Photograph by Amy Jo Royall

[amyjoroyall]

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Savannah, Georgia 

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Finding a corner where all of the right textures, colors and light come together. They didn't even know they were right, they just were. 

Photograph by Amy Jo Royall

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She thought I left her. Like I ever could. 

Photograph by Amy Jo Royall

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Road Trippin' the keys

Photograph by Amy Jo Royall

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[W]e all might benefit from incorporating more of the things we love into our daily routines instead of saving them for the weekend or our next vacation.

Kinfolk Magazine (via femmeinnest)