View From The Truck Window: fall

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

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Last Light Over The Fields

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The Day Before The Wind Came

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Fall Storm Moon

Autumn Drive

Monday, November 8, 2021

A Harvest of Beauty

Tributaries

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

In The Rain

Monday, November 1, 2021

Orange Vista

Changes Coming

First Splendor of Fall

Monday, October 18, 2021

Fields of Gold

Green Glow

Golden Treasure

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Early Shadows

Just Swimming In Texture

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Drama From The Skies

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Tuxedo Required

Afternoon Calm

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Spectacular Fall

Testing For Ripeness