View From The Truck Window: December 2021

Sunday, December 5, 2021

It's About Light

Same scene, different light.

All photographs, all paintings, are really studies of the qualities of light. When you think of it that way, the subject is relatively unimportant.

One of my favorite sayings, which I wish I'd thought of:

"A day without sunshine is like . . . night."

No Such Thing As Too Many Books

Quotes I Like

"To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. . . . The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding."

~ John Blakemore

"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 -- and looking."

~ Brooks Atkinson

"To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share."

~ Jan Phillips

"Images unearthed are not merely random, they are metaphor. I am not creating something else. I am revealing who I am."

~ Catherine Moore

"Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator."

~ Unknown

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

~ Cesare Pavese

"Life is getting up an hour early to live an hour more."

~ Hal Borland

"The silence spoke loudly of silence,

and the rivers kept speaking,

of rivers, of boulders and air."

~ Jane Hirshfield

"Have you ever noticed how "What the hell" is always the right decision to make?"

~ Terry Johnson

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

~ Diane Arbus

"Photographers too often hear, "Your camera takes good pictures." Imagine telling an author, "Your computer writes such great books."

~ Sandra Juto

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

~ Jean Cocteau

"Earth's crammed with Heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -

The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Birds

The Serious Part of Winter

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Sun Fishing

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Season of the Chilly Toes

Merganser Morning

Sunday, December 19, 2021

My Dog Is Weird

Sunday, December 5, 2021

It's About Light

No Such Thing As Too Many Books

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Last Light Over The Fields