... I live while I photograph. I do not Photograph to live.
... When I was younger, I dreamed of flying. I fell in love with the big blue sky above our heads. But not at all like Jenny, from Forrest Gump, the poor girl. So I learned how to fly. I went to Florida and earned my wings.Just like the Little Prince. Like Arthur Dent. Like Luke Skywalker. Like the Flying Tigers. Like Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. Like the Blue Angels.
... My name is Alan-Maurice Valdellon Kayanan and I like my name. It's very long and I can say it with a ridiculous filipino accent. I love nerds. I wish there were more of us. I encourage all nerds to find each other and Breed. I come from a large family of nerds. I have an extra helping of Dork too. As in, I'm probably dorkier than you are.
*1016 photographs in my Photo Section. Lots to see.
*315 enteries in my Blog. Enough to read.
... I know lots about all kinds of smiles. I have to. I am an apt student of human facial expression. I know there's a birth of a smile and a death of a smile. I know that for different people a smile fully blossoms at different times. I know a smile looks different when you exhale, inhale, or hold a breath. I know when a genuine smile starts in your eyes and ends up on your lips. I've seen so many smiles that look almost right, but end before they ever get close to your eyes. I love how a smile can be the most welcome and universal form of communication. I love how you can 'hear' a smile over the phone when talking to an old friend who lives thousands of miles away. I love your smile. I think smiles and laughter are the best ingredients to a life well lived.
... I am also as versed in frowns and tears as I am with smiles and joy...
... I am constantly having an affair with color.
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...I have such a strange sense of humor. I feel isolated in my horridly dirty taste in jokes. I always win gross-out competitions. Don't even try me I'll make you throw up a little in your mouth.
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
~Ansel Adams
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
~George S. Patton
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
~Douglas Adams
