a camera's life

"life is an interesting picture" kenneth john hulick

oh! to be a camera . . . an observer of life's little wonders, a preserver of life's moments, and a storyteller of life's adventures. my camera would like to share some of its experiences with you ~ hope you enjoy
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Thursday, January 5

"april in Paris ~ chestnuts in blossom ~ holiday tables under the trees"

Posted by francesca at 7:42 AM

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francesca: ~ forever a child at heart . . . fascinated by all the wonders, pleasures, mysteries of life ~

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henri cartier-bresson

“we photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again ~ we cannot develop and print a memory”

anonymous

"practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty"

anonymous

"in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

aaron siskind

"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"

degriff

"there will be times when you will be in the field without a camera ~ and, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed ~ don't be bitter because you can't record it ~ sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!"

alfread stieglitz

alfread stieglitz was once asked ~ "how does a photographer learn?" he answered without even a second’s hesitation ~ "by looking"

david sheppard

"take only photographs, leave only footprints"

alfred steiglitz

"in photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality"

john steinbeck

"i hate cameras ~ they are so much more sure than i am about everything"

woody guthrie

"if you walk across my camera i will flash the world your story"

carrie latet

"a photograph is like the recipe ~ a memory the finished dish"

anonymous

"practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty"

matt hardy

"beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph"

emmet gowin

"the challenge of photography is to show the thing being photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us"

julian flynn

"a lot depends on serendipity, making the most of the circumstances"

thalassa cruso

"for many people the scent of certain plants can revive memories with a vividness that nothing else can equal, for the sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that have left the conscious mind"

confucius

"everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it"

dennis hopper

"i was doing something that i thought could have some impact someday ~ in many ways, it's really these photographs that kept me going creatively"

oscar wilde

"the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"

jack wilkinson

"seeing simply is seeing significantly"

huntington witherill

"i also try to respond to the light in terms of what it's really trying to show in and of itself ~ i try to use the light to its best advantage ~ thus, the subject matter is not the only consideration"

anonymous

"photography is a way to tell others how you feel about what you see"

abraham lincoln

"there are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes"

petar kurschner

"photography is the air i breath, the water i drink, the fire i step through, the rock i'm standing on"

henrik a. lundh

"if a photograph stirs the emotions in at least one person, that makes it art ~ this includes the person who clicked the shutter"

nathan lyons

". . . the eye and the camera see more than the mind knows"

albert normandin

"you have to open your mind to your eyes"

warren criswell

"the window of opportunity opens and closes as fast as a camera's shutter"

galen rowell

"at the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings ~ to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist"

walter de mulder

"never see nothing, always see something"

taga creekside

"no matter what camera you use, it is not the camera but your artistic eyes who makes the photograph"

peter kool

"many beautiful moments happen every second, but as a photographer you have to be lucky to encounter one ~ the art is to see and capture it in a photograph"

petar kurschner

"i share my feelings through my shots . . . sometimes there is something i wish to say, but there are no words for it, so here i have my camera, the story teller, and me the director . . ."

edward weston to ansel adams

"i would say to any artist: don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better"

brooks jensen

"our personal growth can fuel our photography and our photography can fuel our personal growth"

len jenshel

"i love how photography when used intuitively, tells you about yourself and your relationship to the world"

guy le querrec

"a photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars"

wayne paulo

"we all look but do we see?"

freeman patterson

"the camera always points both ways ~ in expressing your subject, you also express yourself"

louis pasteur

"where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind"

justin au eong

"the finished photograph is an extension of the photographer's mind, a window to the heart, soul and values within him"

melanie einzig

"the eyes sink to the heart to make the art"

carolyn m d'alessandro

"it is not what i see outside that makes my images, it is what i feel on the inside that comes out"

tedric a. garrison

"remember . . . light is your crayon, and there's always another color in the box"

jacques-henri lartique

"i have two pairs of eyes ~ one to paint and one to take photographs"

wifredo garcia

"maybe, the greatest art discovery within hundred years from now, would be our grandparents' photo albums!"

berenice abbott

"imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine"

amyn nasser

"i believe in the photographer's magic ~ the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour ~ to create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance ~ he respects classic disciplines while at the same time insists on being fast, modern, and wild"

robert farber

"i try to create an emotion through a mood, an appreciation for what's there ~ something people walk by every day and don't see"

peter adams

"photography is not about cameras, gadgets, and gizmos ~ photography is about photographers ~ a camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel"

anonymous

"when people ask what equipment i use . . . i tell them my eyes"

moses oliver

"simply i can say photography is a ~poem~"

moses oliver

"photography is a literature of light"

julia margaret cameron

"from the first moment i handled my lens with a tender ardour"

ross caligagan

"it's a third eye ~ i see things that were never there before"

ansel adams

"photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas ~ it is a creative art"

edward steichen

"photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created ~ it is a major force in explaining man to man"

dorothea lange

"this benefit of seeing . . . can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impresssions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image . . . the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate"

james van der zee

"being an artist, i had an artist's instincts . . . you can see the picture before it's taken ~ then it's up to you to get the camera to see"

emile zola

"the artist is nothing without gift, but the gift is nothing without work"

george eastman

"the kodak camera makes possible a collection of photographs which record the life of its owner and which increase in value each day that passes"

burk uzzle

"photography is a love affair with life"

scott fleming

"i thought i made a mistake once but it turned out it was a creative moment"

antoine de saint-exupery

"it is only with the heart that one can see rightly ~ what is essential is invisible to the eye"

scott macquarrie

"photography for me is a passion, a mixture of science and art that creates magic ~ if a day goes by without photography, it's incomplete"

alfred eisenstaedt

"keep it simple"

tara chisholm

"photography is the beauty of life, captured"

matei glass

"my favorite photographs speak eloquently, both about and to us"

bill frakes

"it's a lovely way to communicate and it's a true, universal language"

eve arnold

"you can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there"

simon watney

"no picture has a single meaning"

ansel adams

"in wisdom gathered over time i have found that every experience is a form of exploration"

ronald reagan

"i like photographers ~ you don't ask questions"

robert doisneau

"if i knew how to take a good photograph, i'd do it every time"

lisa jones

"photography is like an open book to the world"

irving pobboravsky

"the camera is a magic window that transforms the world"

anonymous

"photography was once described as painting with light"

james elliott

"photography is as easy as you are to please"

scott rhodes

"when you look at life 'through the cameras eye', it helps you to appreciate the things you normally would have over looked ~ it helps to slow you down and enjoy life for the moment"

w. thackeray

"the two most engaging powers of a photographer are to make new things familiar and familiar things new"

arnold drapkin

"the most important attribute a photographer can have is enthusiasm"

george bernard shaw

"the photographer is like the cod, which lays a million eggs in order that one may be hatched"

edward weston

"anything that excites me for any reason, i will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual"

elliott erwitt

"the whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words"

garry winogrand

"no one moment is most important ~ any moment can be something"

john szarkowski

"to quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft"

ruth bernhard

"if you're not interested in life, then photography has no meaning"

andreas carl

"photography has increased my awareness"

sam abell

"photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me"

scott adams

"creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes ~ art is knowing which ones to keep"

sir joshua reynolds

"a room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts"

eliot porter

"sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject"

dorothea lange

". . . put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you"

justin au eong

"the finished photograph is an extension of the photographer's mind, a window to the heart, soul and values within him"

aristotle

"the soul can not think without a picture"

minor white

"when gifts are given to me through my camera, i accept them graciously"

ernst haas

"best wide-angle lens? two steps backward ~ look for the *ah-ha*"

christophe agou

"when i use the camera, i often feel like i know part of the people or places i come in contact with"

joel strasser

"a good photographer must love life more than he does photography"

ernst haas

"i am not interested in shooting new things ~ i am interested to see things new"

edward abbey

our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today"

jean cocteau

"a true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter"

ralph waldo emerson

"art is not to be found by touring to egypt, china, or peru ~ if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it"

doug bartlow

"no matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes the picture"

arturo macias uceda

"i found the best light in the dark"

irving penn

"photographing a cake can be art"

anonymous

"unlike a painter, a photographer starts with something finished and works backward"

john e. burkowski

"photographs are like wine, they get better with age"

barbara morgan

"light is the shape and play of my thoughts . . . my reason for being a photographer"

henri cartier-bresson

"i'm not responsible for my photographs. photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. it's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff ~ being sensitive to coincidence. you can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. first you must lose your self. then it happens."

bill frakes

"you should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul ~ the capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others"

w. eugene smith

"what use is having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?"

john szarkowski

"luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher"

alfred eisenstaedt

"when i have a camera in my hand, i know no fear"

john szarkowski

"a camera has interesting ideas on its own"

ansel adams

"a true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words"

henri cartier-bresson

"of course it's all luck"

anonymous

"anyone can take a picture . . . a person with a passion sees the picture before it's taken"

ruth bernhard

"there is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture"

imogen cunningham

"which of my photographs is my favorite? the one i'm going to take tomorrow"

aaron sussman

"photography is a means of recording forever the things one sees for a moment"

anonymous

"the camera captures light, our minds capture images"

anonymous

"one picture is worth a thousand words"

charlie waite

"a landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraint of language and culture"

anonymous

"photography teaches that how well you see has nothing to do with how well you see"

henri matisse

"the artist must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. all his life he must see as he did when he was a child."

sergio larrain

"a good picture is born from a state of grace. grace becomes manifest when one is freed from conventions, free as a child in his first discovery of reality."

andreas gursky

"for me, vision is an intelligent form of thought"

gilles peress

"every picture i take is like a diary entry"

mark twain

"you can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus"

henry thoreau

"it's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see"

gary kapluggin

"photography is my second language"

brooks anderson

"the virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking"

priscilla ferguson-forthman

"the camera is a most fantastic drawing instrument, like a pencil on steroids"

peter adams

"great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field"

author unknown

"the goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer"

eudora welty

"a good snapshot stops a moment from running away"

pablo picasso

" in every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression"

berenice abbott

"photography helps people to see"

jacques-henri lartique

"it's marvellous, marvellous! nothing will ever be as much fun. i'm going to photograph everything, everything!"

frank deford

"she glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes"

elliott erwitt

"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."

dorothea lang

"photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still"

harry callahan

"i wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. to me, that makes photography more exciting."

sam abell

"photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment ~ this very moment ~ to stay"

jacques-henri lartique

"photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true"

walker evans

"whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts"

aaron siskind

"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."

ansel adams

"a great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety"

author unknown

"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"

dorothea lange

"the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera"

ernst haas

"there is only you and your camera. the limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."

ambrose bierce

"photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art"

dirk bogarde

"the camera can photograph thought"

jousuf karsh

"look and think before opening the shutter. the heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."

henri cartier-bresson

"as far as i am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. it is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. it is a way of life."

galen rowell

"i began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed"

minor white

"often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts"