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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

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Sun Fishing

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

The Day Before The Wind Came

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Solitude

Monday, November 1, 2021

First Splendor of Fall

Monday, October 18, 2021

True Blue Love

Green Glow

Saturday, September 11, 2021

The Height of Summer

Monday, September 6, 2021

Bright Fresh Morning

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Lush Summer

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Summer Idyll

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Woodland Finds

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Morning at Johnson's Sauk Trail Park

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Snow Day

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A Crystal Universe

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Morning Catch

Thursday, November 12, 2020

In The Moonlight

That Special Evening

Morning Sun And Coffee

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Foggy Fall Flavor

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Progressing Toward Gold