{"id":9805,"date":"2024-08-24T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T11:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2024-08-24T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T11:42:45","slug":"my-mother-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/my-mother-the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother, The Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2:before,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2:after{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: table;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Text and photography by Steve Parke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_separator td_block_wrap vc_separator tdi_6  td_separator_solid td_separator_center\"><span style=\"border-color:#EBEBEB;border-width:1px;width:100%;\"><\/span>\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.td_block_separator{\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  align-items: center;\r\n                  margin-bottom: 38px;\r\n                  padding-bottom: 10px;\r\n                }.td_block_separator span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  display: block;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  width: 100%;\r\n                  height: 1px;\r\n                  border-top: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_left span{\r\n                  margin-left: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_align_right span{\r\n                  margin-right: 0;\r\n                }.td_separator_dashed span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dashed;\r\n                }.td_separator_dotted span{\r\n                  border-top-style: dotted;\r\n                }.td_separator_double span{\r\n                  height: 3px;\r\n                  border-bottom: 1px solid #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span{\r\n                  position: relative;\r\n                  height: 20px;\r\n                  overflow: hidden;\r\n                  border: 0;\r\n                  color: #EBEBEB;\r\n                }.td_separator_shadow > span > span{\r\n                  position: absolute;\r\n                  top: -30px;\r\n                  left: 0;\r\n                  right: 0;\r\n                  margin: 0 auto;\r\n                  height: 13px;\r\n                  width: 98%;\r\n                  border-radius: 100%;\r\n                }html :where([style*='border-width']){\r\n                    border-style: none;\r\n                }\n<\/style><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>A Queen in the Forest: Capturing the Magic of My 87-Year-Old Mother<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">I<\/span>\u2019ve photographed countless people in my decadeslong career\u2014including the artist Prince, over many years as his art director at Paisley Park, and numerous models for Faerie Magazine, now Enchanted Living, as <a href=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/autumn-queen-cover-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographer<\/a> and photo editor. (I believe at this point I\u2019m up to sixteen covers!) But when I learned the theme for this issue, I proposed doing what might be my most epic photo shoot yet: one with my very own mother, Joyce Parke, eighty-seven years old and a queen if there ever was one, straight down to her mismatched earrings.<\/p>\n<p>Many moons ago she and my dad plucked up a red-haired baby that needed a family (yes, I\u2019m adopted!), and she was the best mother she could have possibly been to me, always treating me as no less than her firstborn. She has a gigantic heart and is accepting of everyone she meets; in fact, she\u2019ll usually send new friends a handwritten card through the mail if she spends more than two hours with them. She\u2019ll tell them about the weather, the latest murder mystery she\u2019s watching, and how sadistic her new weight trainer at the gym was (or wasn\u2019t) that day. 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I set my sights on the fairground at the Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/34th-annual-arizona-renaissance-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renaissance<\/a> Festival, a place I\u2019ve loved and worked at since my teenage years. And then my mother posed flawlessly for a couple of hours, remarking on how exhausting modelling seems as a potential profession. I don\u2019t think she has any idea how many people a third of her age get just as tired under the same circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I think she has a big career ahead of her. Don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steveparke.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Find Steve Parke\u2019s portfolio, prints, a<\/i><i>nd publications at steveparke.com.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9808&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_cta h2=&#8221;Subscribe!&#8221; txt_align=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;flat&#8221; color=&#8221;grey&#8221; add_button=&#8221;bottom&#8221; btn_title=&#8221;Subscribe Today!&#8221; btn_style=&#8221;flat&#8221; btn_color=&#8221;mulled-wine&#8221; btn_align=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; btn_button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; btn_link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fenchantedlivingmag.com%2Fcollections%2Fsubscribe|target:_blank|rel:nofollow&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><i><img data-dominant-color=\"83615b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #83615b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9806 size-medium aligncenter not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-231x300.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-231x300.avif 231w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-789x1024.avif 789w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-768x997.avif 768w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-1183x1536.avif 1183w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-1577x2048.avif 1577w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-323x420.avif 323w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-696x904.avif 696w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-1068x1387.avif 1068w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-1920x2493.avif 1920w, https:\/\/enchantedlivingmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Pages-from-EL68_webspreads-jpg.avif 1927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>Enchanted Living<\/i><\/em> is a quarterly print magazine that celebrates all things enchanted.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Subscribe now and begin with our Autumn Queen<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/em><b style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/b><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">issue!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_cta]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] Text and photography by Steve Parke [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=\"\"] A Queen in the Forest: Capturing the Magic of My 87-Year-Old Mother I\u2019ve photographed countless people in my decadeslong career\u2014including the artist Prince, over many years as his art director at Paisley Park, and numerous models for Faerie Magazine, now Enchanted Living, as photographer and [...]","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,84],"tags":[2998,3002,3000,360,361,1683,2995,2996,2999,44,2997,2994,3001,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-9805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-photography","9":"tag-adoption","10":"tag-art-portfolio","11":"tag-deep-forest-queen","12":"tag-enchanted-living","13":"tag-faerie-magazine","14":"tag-family","15":"tag-joyce-parke","16":"tag-maryland-renaissance-festival","17":"tag-personal-project","18":"tag-photography","19":"tag-portrait-photography","20":"tag-prince-art-director","21":"tag-red-velvet-cloak","22":"tag-steve-parke"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Mother, The Queen &#8211; 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