On a Misty Morning

When I do press the shutter, which is less frequently than before, I’m doing so with more tenderness and thought (Chris Orwig)

Hard-to-find Alloys

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts (Dan Gable)

Alpine Dreams

It was a long day, the air fine. We enjoyed the advantages of vigor of mind and strength and agility of body. We found an old shepherd in one of the mountain dales, who tried, at great length, to dissuade us from the ascent, saying that some fifty years before he had, in the same ardor of youth, reached the summit, but had gotten for his pains nothing except fatigue and regret, and clothes and body torn by the rocks and briars. No one, so far as he or his companions knew, had ever tried the ascent before or after him. But his counsels increased rather than diminished our desire to proceed, since youth is suspicious of warnings (Petrarch)

Beauty is only skin-deep

Photography succeeds not when the original vision is created photographically, but when the photograph is able to evoke or re-create a similar vision in the mind of each viewer. If the re-creation is not understood or not relevant or not powerful enough, the image fails. But if the special unity of composition found by the photographer triggers strong emotions, the image has a chance of success (Galen Rowell)

Stories and Souls

Stories are to images as souls are to people (Tony Wu)

Young Athletes

Photography for me is not a vocation or an avocation, not a hobby or an amusement or a skill. Photography for me is a spiritual practice. It's a discipline that connects me more closely to the core of the universe and the core of my own being. It opens my eyes and, in doing so, allow my heart and my soul to open, as well (Dewitt Jones)

The Language of Dreams

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language (Gail Godwin)

Soulful Glance

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls (Ted Grant)

Man and Nature

I have gained some new insights into Man through having looked deeply at Nature (Hiroshi Hamaya)

The Emotional Chord

Regardless of how perfectly a photographer's work renders a subject, it is bound to fail unless it strikes that chord that elicits a common emotional and visual response (Galen Rowell)

Defeated

...a portrait of a one-of-a-kind human being at a never-to-be-repeated point in time in a way only you, a one-of- a-kind photographer with a specific way of looking at the world, and the people therein, can make (David Duchemin)

Beauty is only skin deep

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment (Robert Frank)

Heart and Mind

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera (Yousuf Karsch)

Ballerina

It is not what I see outside that makes my images, it is what I feel on the inside that comes out (Carolyn M D'Alessandro)