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The "Pepsi Generation" - Pennsylvania Junkyard - November 2004
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios, for the latter, the studio is the world.... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment. - Ernst Haas
The best zoom lens is your legs. - Ernst Haas
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First, I did it to please myself; then I did it to please my friends; and eventually, I did it for money. - Philippe Halsman
Hemmingway the Cat - September 2006
All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the
most elementary simple snapshots.
This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.
Tiger Swallow Tail - September 2006
Butterflies are self propelled
flowers. - R. H. Heinlein
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. - Lewis Hine
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. - Yousuf Karsh
The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. - Yousuf Karsh
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. - Yousuf Karsh
"Twins" My father and my son Zachary - January 1995 & March 1990
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind, soul and spirit, is reflected
through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
Yousuf Karsh
Sunflower Close Up - September 2006
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorthea Lange
Children are our second chance to
have a great parent-child relationship.
Dr. Laura
My Friend Rachel - July 2006
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know, I photograph.
Annie Leibovitz
My Father on Harway Avenue in Brooklyn, NY
Probably from the late 1940s or early 1950s
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film;
they advertise memories. - Theodore Levitt
Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
Jay Maisel
The New Jersey Balloon Festival - July 1994
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize that the foot is more noble
than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
I cannot solve the problems of life by losing myself in the problems of art.
Owning more than one lens assures that you will always have the wrong one on the camera for any given picture. - Ted Orland
When man creates a sharper lens, nature will create a fuzzier subject
Ted Orland
Zach's First Shave - August 1995
Never confuse sharp with good or you'll find yourself shaving with an ice cream cone and licking a razor. - Bill Pierce
Say "Cheese" Jason, Gretchen & Zachary - June 1995
It's no good saying "hold it" to a moment in real life. - Lord Snowdon
A Ron Wyatt photo using my new Canon 30d - September 2006
I may look like an old geezer but I still dream like a young man.
Jan Sudak
"It Really Works...." My New Butterfly Bush - September 2006
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
Pablo Picasso
Rudy's Bar - New York City - November 2006
I like photographers - you don’t ask questions. - Ronald Reagan
"Like Red On A Rose" - April 2007
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. - Galen Rowell
"Lights in the Tunnel" - October 2006
You could say I travel to take photographs and take photographs to travel.
Will the Real Lady Liberty Please Stand Up Photo - September 1992 - - Photoshop Changes - 2006
The photographer is like the cod, which lays a million eggs in order that one may be hatched.
...one of the most universally popular mistakes... is that of classifying supposedly excellent work as Professional, and using the term Amateur to convey the idea of immature productions or to excuse atrociously poor photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz
The eyes are
not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus
Fall Colors - October 2006
The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
William Thackeray
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
The "Good Van" - August 2000
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. - Billy Vaughn
Sir Ben Kingsley - March 2006
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Andy Warhol
New Jersey's Veteran Cemetery - Memorial Day 2007
Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
Brett Weston
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration.
Brett Weston
Carpooling with Clint - 15mm Fisheye - January 2007 - 6:30am
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
Brett Weston
...If I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour. - Edward Weston
U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle - McGuire Air Expo - May 2007 (15mm Fisheye)
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. - Edward Weston
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of the 'human figure divine' but minus the imperfections. - Edward Weston
Jersey Tomatoes - August 1983
Life... I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
Edward Weston
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. - Edward Weston
42nd Street, near 5th Ave. New York - September 2006 - 6:40 am
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car.
But one has a background of years - learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all of this. Then, at the moment of creation... there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me.
Edward Weston
Forsythia Bushes - April 2006
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
Edward Weston
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner they discuss money. - Oscar Wilde
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