February 2012
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“You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures....”
– Tchekov
“We must work everyday, whether we feel like it or not, otherwise when it comes...”
“I came here to understand the primal drive of the modern hunter, and to find a...”
– Erika Larsen
Some things are too special to share with the whole world. Some things, are just too sacred and should be kept in the still privacy of the quiet, untouched until a curious wanderer falls into its splenderous gates and is quited by its beauty, leaving the space awestruck and changed. Some things should be left alone, to dwell in the quitness of living. Some treasures are only treasures because few...
“I seek out places where it can happen more readily, such as deserts or mountains...”
– Minor White, Interviews With Master Photographers : Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, Brett Weston by James Danziger
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I love when the wind blows,
the deep exhale of the mountains
the storming gasps of the sea
the gentle sighs of the valley,
I am reminded that there is land here,
beneath the concreate
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This is an exerpt from a book called, The Photographer’s Eye by John Szarkowski:
his tradition was formed by all the photographs that
had impressed themselves upon his consciousness.
Just think about it for a minute: how much of your visual appetite is feed by the photographers hand? Its spooky almost, the truth and lies a picture can spread.
This is very unlikely, but all I would like for Valentines day is a crap load of candy and a nice hand made card.
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“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they truly were capable of...”
– Thomas Merton
TALBOT
I’m taking a class on the history of photography and I was reading today about Talbot, an English gentlemen, scientist and scholar who helped create camera based imagining with light sensative silver salts. He was a huge reason for a lot of the advances in photography in the early stages of its development. Anyhow he said this about it, and I loved it:
His belief that...
