Margaret Bourke-White

I know of nothing to equal the happy expectancy of finding something new, something unguessed in advance, something only you would find, because as well as being a photographer, you were a certain kind of human being, and you would react to something all others might walk by.



 

Joan Didion

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
David Hurn

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of such complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure for me, in things such as they are

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Slung my new Moop bag over my shoulder this evening and went on a walk around the neighborhood. Inside, nestled between the water resistant cordura ( yeah, I don't really know what that is ) was my Nikon D90, ready for action. I had planned on taking some of those nice evening pictures where the light is just right, somewhere between golden and blue. Maybe some of the people out strolling along the Street would want their picture taken as well. If so, I was ready. Because that's really how it works isn't it? You walk around with your camera in hopes of seeing someone that looks interesting  and what your heart wants to do is go up to them and ask, without sounding like a wierdo, if maybe you could take their picture. The two guys standing on the sidewalk outside a  restaurant warming up their banjos would have been perfect. But when I walked by my camera was still in my bag. And they looked like they were really into what they were doing, and I didn't want to bother them. And so I kept walking. With the 50mm lens, I would have taken a nice portrait or I might have flubbed it up out of nervousness. But I will never know. Sometimes we don't always do what the heart wants us to do. And really, that's a shame.

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