Quotes about photo
photography light differences
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one. Galen Rowell
photography environmental roles
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
photography cities two
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.
photography thinking people
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
photography memories important
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
photography american-west people
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
photography mean animal
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
photography real mistake
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.
photography real light
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
photography powerful eye
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
photography book heart
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.
photograph deceptive
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph. Franz Kafka
photography eye play
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
photography narrative cameras
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded. Erica Jong
photography taken thinking
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. Eric Clapton
photography brother giving
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. Jason Sudeikis
photography couple kansas
One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.
photography taken found
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. Hanneli Mustaparta
photography successful answers
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. Greg Gorman
photography enthusiasm doe
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me. Graeme Le Saux
photography sea weather
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
photography wife cameras
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
photography thinking curves
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.
photography simple way
I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place. Harry Callahan
photography technique mystery
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
photography forever goes-on
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
photography mysterious i-can
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
photography prayer
A picture is like a prayer.
photography believe people
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
photography prayer offering
A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
photography strong believe
I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
photography thinking alive
I think I came alive when I started photography.
photography art real
You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.