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#2647 - Monday,
November 20, 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
The Nondual Highlights
Everything has it's
beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
"What makes
photography a strange invention is that its primary raw
materials are light and time." - John Berger
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. - Ansel Adams
photo series by Bob
O'Hearn
http://snipurl.com/11t9y
It takes a lot of
imagination to be a good photographer. You need less
imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things.
But in
photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of
looking
before you learn to see the ordinary. - David Bailey
In the right light, at the
right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose
A photograph is a secret
about a secret. The more it tells you the
less you know. - Diane Arbus
I have often thought that
if photography were difficult in the true
sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple
photograph would entail as much time and effort as the
production of
a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast
improvement in
total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a
superficial
image often leads to creative disaster. - Ansel Adams
P
hotography is not about
cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is
about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any
more
than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams, Sydney 1978
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. - Brooks Atkinson
The camera is an
instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
- Dorothea Lange
by n.m. rai
http://eye-po.blogspot.com/2006/11/leaf.html
You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself,
"I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene
before, but
never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies
for its
strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the
intensity of
the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which
the
raw materials--light, space, and shape--are arranged in a
meaningful
and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects.
-Sam Abell, "Seeing and Shooting Straight"
"Swans" Alan Larus photos http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/Sunset%20&%20swans.htm
I'm not responsible for my
photographs. Photography is not
documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning
yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff
– being
sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't
want it,
or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it
happens.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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. - Ansel Adams
When words
become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When
images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Ansel Adams
The Roe Deer
Driving
home at midnight,
a buck and two doe's at the roadside
To my
surprise they did not run away
( they always do ), so I stopped
A doe
walked slowly in front of the car
and looked at me for an eternity
Afterwards,
as I am about to fall to sleep,
there's an
open door
into natures grace and peace
To remind
this dreamer
who she is
poem by Alan Larus
http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/shores/The_Roe_Deer.htm