https://www.camillemadeline.space/home daily 0.75 2016-02-16 https://www.camillemadeline.space/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1616101656459-GFEG48EB3K2780AFT2NA/Zazzle_Camille_IMG_0295BWv2+copy.png CONTACT https://www.camillemadeline.space/myplaceonsquarespace daily 0.75 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1509929721599-0FR3OBOGWEXUOI9DJT7K/SSPhotographyUsed_JournalPages_No003_IMG_2079WM.png Main Entrance "The Journal Pages" | of Leonardo Da Vinci Photographic Series~~No.003 Location: Florence, Italy 'Stationery' used for: "My Question...in letter format...Page 3" © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1517955615592-J3HDKTLFBLT2WJA2GLAV/1037_SSPhotographyUsed_WinterWonderlandWindow_WordsILove_SISU_WM_IMG_1037.png Main Entrance "Winter Wonderland Window" { Photography Original Creation Date: 03.05.2015 } @ { my place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1509135201239-QPRBAE0T5S8LO55GBE9O/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_10_23_Script_JournalPages_MyQuestion_Page+2_IMG_2068.jpg Main Entrance ~~~cmc | 10.23.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1510688222743-RUS82VVP6X9B4LW72TZM/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_11_11_1_365_IMG_9486WM.png Main Entrance "Seeing The Light" Stained Glass Art: © RSC | All Rights Reserved 'Stationery' used for: "An Interlude" © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1505421775469-OI2AL644F80MALKR3R8U/Squarespace_WhereItsImpossible.jpg Main Entrance - "The Unknown" Image Credit: Unknown Quote Credit: Unknown Destination: Unknown ****************** This image is fitting--not only for the quote (which I love), but that I searched and searched and was not able to find one piece of information to credit a single soul for any part of the image. It's all one big unknown. And that's exactly why it's perfect. Again…Symbolism. Still…someone took the photo; someone wrote those words; someone put it all together; and someone shared it for another to find. That means something. Perhaps the fact that I'm trying to credit someone--anyone--will have to be enough. But it isn't. Filling in those ‘unknown’ blank spaces feels important. Destination: Unknown …now that I can accept. At least the direction in the image appears to be ‘upward’. That's comforting. But those steps; there sure are a lot of them! Too many to count. I tried. If the photographer used Photoshop to make a point, then point well taken. From this perspective, there isn't even a guarantee of a destination...not that I'm the least bit concerned. I'm curious, but not concerned...because just a single step, no matter how small, has much to offer. It's a mini-destination, but a destination nonetheless. I tend to think in little pieces. Anything bigger than that can scare me off before I have even begun. So here I stand; at the beginning; looking up. I’ve stepped over the line and into the unknown. The potential and possibility, the magic and mystery of which I spoke about earlier, don't feel quite as romantic on this side of the mirror. In fact, those friends—magic and mystery— are nowhere to be found. I keep glancing at that bottom step. It's inviting. It’s welcoming. It’s exciting. It’s s-c-a-r-y. I think I need to sit for a while on that step... and contemplate. This is not what I expected. In my mind, I had specific traveling plans, regardless of final destination. Now I feel a bit lost. Even the mini-destination, of which I was sure when I started out, has quickly become an unknown. But I am not surprised. And why is that? Because as usual...“I took the road less traveled; and now I don’t know where the f*ck I am.” ~Author: Unknown ~~~cmc | 09.14.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1505923890566-EMOPE6GGFAYKWEHTJY65/SquareSpace_Photography_2017_09_19_IMG_8273WM.png Main Entrance - “WORDS I LOVE” { 1 } GNOSSIENNE (n.; French) "...a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately, neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand." ~John Koenig ~The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows **************** Did you ever go looking for something, and instead of finding what you thought you were looking for, you found…something else? That happens to me a lot. It doesn't mean that what I was originally looking for is no longer important; it may mean that I needed to find something else…first. Why that is ...I'll never know. It's a mystery. I will stick a pin in my initial search, and while I still may go looking for it at a later time, I've learned to pay attention to what's right in front of me—now—and run with it. For instance, I was looking for a word and its definition to share here. I wanted a word that described my current state: lost and wandering aimlessly in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs...unable to take that first real step. That's the picture I see in my mind. But instead, I found this beauty—already previously pinned in my personal collection of “words I love”. { GNOSSIENNE }: Isn’t it pretty? The French language is very beautiful. And that definition…who really knows if it's true or if it came from one's imagination? The dictionary defines the word ‘gnossienne’ as something else entirely. for that definition, see below: { gnossienne }; "Several piano compositions written by the French composer, Erik Satie in the late 19th century. The works are, for the most part, in free time (lacking the signatures or bar divisions) and highly experimental with form, rhythm, and chordal structure." Being the jazz freak that I am, I should already have been well aware of the word and its genuine definition. (the genuine definition is actually the epitome of jazz). As a rule, words do not have completely different, double meanings. But Perhaps when a word has been retired for a time, someone discovers it…resurrects it…and dresses it up by giving it a stunningly, jaw-dropping, new definition. I'm not sure if this is acceptable. in the world of words and their accompanying definitions, this could be very confusing. But this one? i dare say it’s quite lovely. Job well done, Mr. Koenig. Approved! And yet, I still feel the same way; a lost wanderer pacing in a small space……. But now, this is what I think: I think maybe this word is exactly what I was looking for after all. When I first read its definition, I thought it was referring to another person outside of ourselves. But what if.—what if— it's not? What if this "person" is someone within ourselves? (Hey, if other people can mess around with word meanings, so can I). Please read the definition again: "...a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand." Unbeknownst to us, is it possible that there's a sliver within each of us that's "an unfinished attic", under lock and without a key? Without a map to our secret, unknown Destination? But I do know exactly where I stand: Still at the bottom; still looking up. Maddeningly. ~~~cmc | 09.19.2017 Art: © Camille Madeline Photography "Sky" | After the Storm | 8.18.2017 | | All Rights Reserved | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1523041472034-QKVANM7N5VCJSKL1Q05U/SS_PhotographyUsed_Melisa_Mirror+Shoot_FINAL_ItsaWinnerAfter_BW_EDIT_WM_IMG_1700+copy+copy.png Main Entrance "In Your Own Mirror" @ {my place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1504818376493-079Y93V952NLG8UKZVUO/Squarespace_Photo1.jpg Main Entrance "MIRROR IMAGE" | Musee d'Orsay, Paris © Camille Madeline Photography | All Rights Reserved | 2017 | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1508784471158-6GG6OXCPA1ROTIO8M67T/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_10_16_JournalPages_IMG_2077WM.jpg Main Entrance "The Journal Pages" | of Leonardo Da Vinci Photographic Series~~No.001 Location: Florence, Italy ~ 'Stationery' used for: "My Question...in letter format...Page 1" © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1506605747750-RIAMOVG3SGG3H8K8G73J/Melisa_Film_IMG_004.png Main Entrance "At Rest: The Goddess in the Garden" | Image: (Divinely) Captured on Film; Digitally Scanned and Edited | | © Camille Madeline Photography | | All Rights Reserved | 2016 | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1510332238523-NZYGG4SDK76UEHU3Q9QT/2079_SSPhotographyUsed_JournalPages_Script_JournalPages_2017_10_30_IMG_2079.jpg Main Entrance ~~~cmc | 10.30.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1510880471559-NUPK3LGSRPKQBS7E373G/SSPhotography+Used_2017_11_CameraOfMySoul_SCRIPT_IMG_0932.jpg Main Entrance ~~~cmc | 11.14.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1525289067935-BI9QXH4L827A0VKI6IXV/SS_PhotographyUsed_IMG_1346WM.png Main Entrance { An Imaginary } "Field of Tall Grass" @ {my Place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1508513414970-J38JX4FCHPS1VGBY05WA/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_10_18_Composite_TheStaircase_Paris_IMG_3098_JournalPages_IMG_2065WM.jpg Main Entrance "Journal Pages on The Staircase" @ { my place on Squarespace } Location Shoot: Paris | Florence Composite Art: © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1509726426907-EWB2C978UUG27BBYX115/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_10_23_NOScript_JournalPages_MyQuestion_Page+2_No002_IMG_2068WM.png Main Entrance "The Journal Pages" | of Leonardo Da Vinci Photographic Series~~No.002 Location: Florence, Italy ~ 'Stationery' used for: "My Question...in letter format...Page 2" © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1505422462287-L5C9UL5VFS9JVJ4V0PLQ/Squarespace_Photo1_Beginnings_2017_08_27.jpg Main Entrance - "Beginnings" The first step is always the most difficult, isn't it? In this case, it has more to do with Squarespace navigation than knowing what to say. A web designer, I am not. So you bet I searched for the most basic template, and even this one is a challenge. But I'm sure it won't be long before I'm posting like a pro. How hard can this be? Millions of others have already figured it out. I can, too. Confidence. I chose this particular photo to represent my new beginning for several reasons, all of which pertain to my mission statement: First, it was one of the many photos I took on a recent trip to the Musee (Museum) D'Orsay in Paris, so it feels symbolic. I accidentally stepped into what looked like a grand ballroom that was full of beautiful details. When I later looked through my collection of photos from that particular room, I was surprised to see only a mere few. This is unlike me. But then I reminded myself of this: quality over quantity. always. Sometimes, one is all it takes. And one is all I needed. Second, it's a photo of a mirror, and of course, a reflection. I honestly don't remember taking this, most likely because there was so much to see. As a rule, when it comes to my photography, I have a photographic memory. I remember everything, because in my mind, I compose it before I shoot it. Not this time. But my camera does not tell a lie. I've taken a lot of photos. So far I have only "blanked out" twice. It's a bit intriguing...and a little eerie, to see a photo I took—and yet—to still question its existence. And finally, it reminds me of an entrance of sorts, perhaps a door or a window....a portal to another universe that is full of potential and possibility---magic and mystery. Is there something already waiting on the other side? Or is it like a blank canvas, a place where we have the power and the ability to create, and shape to our liking? I suppose we don't know--or won't know--until we cross over into this space. Beginnings. It all starts with a single step...the most difficult of all, into the unknown. And because this is who I am..."I want to go where they tell me it's impossible." ~Author Unknown ~~~cmc | 09.11.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/cf444c26-70eb-4256-a122-5a8281bd91bd/MyPlaceonSquareSpace_IDoBelieve_CharlesdeLint_Quotes_Estelle_EngagementRing%29IMG_9453.jpg Main Entrance - Make it stand out { “engagement ring of estelle” } @ {my Place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1508790172973-2HQKTJ4CYHUQZRYJKWUE/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_10_16_Script_JournalPages_IMG_2077WM.jpg Main Entrance - "My Question... ...in letter format..." ~Page 1~ October 16, 2017 Dear Jane Doe...or John Doe...or Whoever Might be Reading This, Do you like stories about ghosts? Do books and movies about the supernatural, whether you believe or not~~intrigue you? Do you seek them out~~~even if just for fun? In all fairness to you, I know that was not one, but three separate questions. However, since the relationship between them is intertwined, I feel that triad of questions is acceptable as a whole. I ask these questions for one reason, and one reason only: I want to know if I am alone, or if I have company in this domain. Again, it is lonely here. If you haven't yet connected the dots, allow me to do that for you. I'm fairly certain my thoughts either reflect a continuation of my previous incomplete entry, or are a segue into a new one~~or both...meaning that in reality, I have not made any connections for you at all. And perhaps you might have a question for me~~such as why I've chosen to write this particular entry in letter format? I don't know. Something about the words feel divinely formal...sacred...as if they should be treated with the utmost reverence and respect~~written on only the finest of paper, to be placed upon completion, in a gold, metallic envelope, and sealed with a kiss. I often joke that I'm going to resurrect the art of letter-writing. But I don't laugh whenever I say that. I am dead serious. I do, however, find something humorous about my comparison of The Universe to a ghost and my questioning if they might be one and the same. Really, those thoughts came out of nowhere...but at the same time, they must have come from somewhere. It seems my synapses are surely fired up with imagination these days! Then again, when the company you keep is your own, that can happen. I know. ~Page 1~ ~~~cmc | 10.16.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1516476557042-BMA1IVGTOV6LOBC0A51D/HowTheLightGetsInIMG_1105v4WM.png Main Entrance "How The Light Gets In" @ { my place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1516666352344-AO7X3SBWUGPLOSCWOZ3N/SS_PhotographyUsed_IMG_1037WM.png Main Entrance - "Words I Love...{3}" SISU (n., Finnish) | [see-suu] Dating back to year 1745; derived from the word "Sisucunda". "Extraordinary determination, courage, and resoluteness in the face of extreme adversity; An action mindset which enables individuals to see beyond their present limitations and into what might be; Taking action against the odds and reaching beyond observed capacities; Not accepting what is supposed to be a reality; An integral element of Finnish culture, and also a universal capacity for which the potential exists within all individuals". https://sisulab.com/2015/04/10/the-origins-of-sisu/ Art: © Camille Madeline Photography "Winter Wonderland Window" | 03.05.2015 | | All Rights Reserved | ~~~cmc | 01.22.2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1505674520827-J9585KOCTMRG23FQ902H/Paris_IMG_3098WM.png Main Entrance "The Staircase" @ { my place on Squarespace } | Location Shoot: Hotel in Paris, France | | © Camille Madeline Photography | | All Rights Reserved | 2017 | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1518655715158-XIOTG3U7INSZX4MVLUOR/SSPhotographyUsed_Valentine%27sDayLovePoem_AftertheStorm2IMG_8272.jpg Main Entrance Background Art: © Camille Madeline Photography "Sky" | After the Storm | 8.18.2017 | | All Rights Reserved | https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1582143677168-7C36QK15Z6V4J3UJDVG1/8273_SSPhotographyUsed_2020_02_19_Dormiveglia_WordsILove_SkyImage_IMG_8273.jpg Main Entrance - “Words I Love”...{4} DORMIVEGLIA (N., ITALIAN) [dormi’veʎa/] “dormiveglia is the state of being half-asleep or half-awake. Dormiveglia is an Italian word and one that doesn’t have a single word equivalent in English, or at least not one that is near as lovely, since semi-conscious is somewhat lacking in descriptive delight and essence. Besides, dormiveglia is describing a semi-conscious sleep awake state, not just semi-consciousness. dormiveglia is such a poetic, almost everyday word, since i know that i find myself in that deliciously half-awake, half-asleep state quite often. dormiveglia is a “favorite state of mind” that is usually in the early hours right before dawn, when we roll over and snuggle deeper into our soft bedding, knowing we still have time to dwell in the land of dreams before having to fully wake up. of course there are those times when the dormiveglia is almost painful, since I know I have to get up, yet relinquishing the hold sleep still has on me seems more a battle hard fought than not. i feel so inspired by the word dormiveglia and simply contemplating that space and state of semi-consciousness gives me such thrilling chills of poetic and artistic inspiration since it is a place I know well. What do you think of dormiveglia, either as a word or a state of being?”. https://lawhimsy.com/2018/04/11/word-nerd-dormiveglia/ "Sky" | After the Storm | 08.18.2017 | Art:© Camille Madeline Photography | All Rights Reserved | ~~~cmc | 02.18.2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1510464622310-Y8QS4M6G8HIGE2F097VW/9486_SSEntryPhotographyUsed_NOScript_StainedGlassNov6_10_1_365_IMG_9486.jpg Main Entrance - "Words I Love...{2}" ~~~cmc | 11.06.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1511987496706-6QOWJ6PJ7HRFCW5DLLCK/SSPhotographyUsed_EndoftheDay_IMG_9670WM.png Main Entrance { @ } "The End of the Day" @ { my place on Squarespace } © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1510464779180-XDAG5GIX32LTA7L7OVP9/8273_SSPhotographyUsed_2017_11_10_Alexithymia_WordsILove_SkyImage_IMG_8273.jpg Main Entrance - "Words I Love...{2}" ALEXITHYMIA (n., Greek) Difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses. ~from Dictionary.com Art: © Camille Madeline Photography "Sky" | After the Storm | 08.18.2017 | | All Rights Reserved | ~~~cmc | 11.06.2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1511205609980-X875WOPBN8QRN0PXW63B/SSPhotographyUsed_Composite_CameraofMySoul_Quandary_IMG_0932_0952.png Main Entrance "Autumn Soul Camera" | The Light Catcher @ { my place on Squarespace } 'Stationery' used for: "My Quandary" © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a626f0be42d66c6ec3b996/1508686044919-TYU0WIQBEYSSA2DKIJA7/SSPhotographyUsed_2017_09_30_NoScript_Composite_JournalPages_TheStaircase_Paris_IMG_2065_3098WM.jpg Main Entrance "Journal Pages on the Staircase" @ {my place on Squarespace } Location Shoot: Paris | Florence ~ 'Stationery' used for: "Intermission" Composite Art | © Camille Madeline Photography All Rights Reserved | 2017 https://www.camillemadeline.space/the-foyer daily 1.0 2022-04-20