January 2012
34 posts
“The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they’ve gone.”
—Yousuf Karsh
“(Professional) photographers are like hookers: at first we started doing it because we liked it and it felt good, then we kept doing it but only for our friends, and now we’re still doing it but are charging money for doing it!”
—Dean Collins
Gallery entries
I’m gobsmacked! Last several months I’ve had several entries accepted into different juried shows.
I am going to post the accepted entries here. I started with Beach Scene. It is a color photograph combined with a high contrast B&W negative overlay. Then manipulated in curves and saturation.
Other shots are not so “worked on”.
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”
—Garry Winogrand
“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
—Ansel Adams
“Artists don’t owe the world anything, least of all explanations.”
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Sam Haskins
Photographer, South Africa
“It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveller who enters a strange country.”
—Bill Brandt
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
—Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
“At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.”
—
America photographer and teacher
“Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.”
—Jack Welpott
“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that’s where most of my prints end up.”
—John Sexton
“Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive”
—
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.”
—George Eastman
“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
—Henri Cartier-Bresson
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
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“What Makes a Good Picture?”
“Youth never moves me. I seldom see anything very beautiful in a young face.”
—Richard Avedon
“May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed
in the centre of our being.
It will not fail us.” —Thomas Merton
and not neglect the silence that is printed
in the centre of our being.
It will not fail us.” —Thomas Merton
“There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.”
—Oscar Wilde