March 2012
55 posts
February 2012
31 posts
“The limitations of photography are in yourself, for what we see is only what we are.”
—Ernst Haas
Photographer's Rights
For an excellent, rational and helpful discussion of one’s rights when using a camera in public places, go to The Strobist blog. He is a working professional photographer with excellent creds, intelligent comments and great technical ability (in case you want to learn about using small strobes).
In this post, he discusses a personal incident and elaborates on what he does today to try to defuse a situation before it develops. Completely sane person with no axes to grind.
Plus he links to a document on photographer’s rights which I personally have printed out and carry copies of in all my gear bags. One for me and one for any law enforcement officer who may be sent to check me out while I am shooting in a public place.
Strobist: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-avoid-dealing-with-police-when.html
The Photographer’s Right: http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf
Caveat, he is not a lawyer and neither am I. Be advised accordingly. The .pdf document was written by a lawyer and dates to 2006.
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
John Waters
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
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Ansel Adams
Happy 110! February 20, 2012
“And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.”
—Richard Avedon
“If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won’t make you cry.”
—Ruth Bernhard
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky.
Class has nothing to do with money.
Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
” —Ann Landers
“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.”
—Sam Abell
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
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H. L. Mencken
The sage of Baltimore
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“The more you reason the less you create.”
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Raymond Chandler
Today, Feb. 6th, 1939, ”The Big Sleep” , the first novel featuring Philip Marlowe was published.
“Nature abhors a moron.”
—H. L. Mencken
“If you take photographs, don’t speak, don’t write, don’t analyse yourself, and don’t answer any questions.”
—Robert Doisneau