“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
-Aaron Siskind
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Beauty of Quake Lake in the Winter
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
-Aristotle
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
-John Burroughs
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it. -Author Unknown
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! -Ted Grant
I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. -Author Unknown
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. -Author Unknown
You should never think without an image. - Aristotle
Photography helps people to see. - Bernice Abbott
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. - Ansel Adams
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. - Ansel Adams A photograph is an instrument of love and revelation that must see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things. - Ansel Adams
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. - Ansel Adams
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music. - Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams in 1930 had been training to become a concert pianist while considering a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that "the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny." His mother and aunt both pleaded, "Do not give up the piano! The camera cannot express the human soul!" To which Adams replied, "The camera cannot, but the photographer can." - Ansel Adams
The negative is the score, and the print the performance. - Ansel Adams
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. -Elliott Erwitt
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. -Berenice Abbott
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. -Ansel Adams
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. - Paul Strand