Trust in Dreams II

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I can’t anticipate the mood of the model, how she will react to a particular place , what the character of the light will be, or how I myself will respond to all these things. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking (Wynn Bullock)

...f8 and be there

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better (Galen Rowell)

A Brief Lifting of the Mask

The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize (Yousuf Karsch)

Paradise among the Stars

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars (Brian Littrell)

Absence

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Gil

Some people have big dreams, some people have small dreams. Whatever you have, the important thing is that you never stop dreaming (John Krakauer)

Emotions in a Fraction of a Second

My passion has  never been for photography "in itself", but for the possibility - through forgetting yourself - of recording in a fraction of a second the emotion of the subject, and the beauty of the form (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

Intention, Curiosity, and Passion

Our most important photographic tools are not our cameras and lenses; they are our ability to see farther and deeper, to be curious, to engage the world and our craft with intention, curiosity, and passion (David du Chemin)

Savoring Life

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second (Marc Riboud)

Muses

A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist’s desires, anxieties, dreams and needs (Vince Aletti)