Argentina, I love you.
Even when we lose : )
Monday, June 26, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
ANSEL ADAMS
Quotes
(The last one made me cry)
We don't make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Quotes
(The last one made me cry)
We don't make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"
Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Tim has a lens that creates things like this:
I want one!
And also, this boy can write some exquisite emails on the subject, such as follows:
Hey dude,
I can't write much, cause I have a Pentateuch essay to write (Gen
6:1-8... Yikes!)
Check out lensbaby.com. Not too expensive for the lens & I think you
would have a LOT of fun with one!
TCG.><>.
P.S.: I'm sure he'll hate me for posting this : )
I want one!
And also, this boy can write some exquisite emails on the subject, such as follows:
Hey dude,
I can't write much, cause I have a Pentateuch essay to write (Gen
6:1-8... Yikes!)
Check out lensbaby.com. Not too expensive for the lens & I think you
would have a LOT of fun with one!
TCG.><>.
P.S.: I'm sure he'll hate me for posting this : )
