“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.” — Dorothea Lange
“You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” — Annie Leibovitz
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein
“I found the best light in the dark.” – Arturo Macias
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” - Ansel Adams
Reflections
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” – Ansel Adams
“You are lucky if you take one, maybe two good pictures in a year.” – Thomas Hoepker
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
“Creativity is the ability to give the world something it didn’t know it was missing” – Daniel Pink
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.- Ansel Adams
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.- Ansel Adams
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.- Ansel Adams
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.- Ansel Adams
Early Morning, West of Mono Lake
I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!- Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.- Ansel Adams
If you want reality take the bus.- David LaChapelle
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.- Ansel Adams
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.- Richard Avedon
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.- Edward Weston
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don’t think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won’t take an interest in it.- John Loengard
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.- Author Unknown
A true photograph interprets a moment. It’s that interpretation that makes that photograph unique. -Robert Ash
A. Ask yourself this question: What does this image need that it can get only from me?
B. Get closer to the subject, both literally and figuratively; no one else will do it quite how you do it.
C. Don’t fill your image with so much content that there is then too little room for yourself. – Ted Dayton
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” – Diane Arbus
