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Author Archives: Rich
Monday Missive — November 18, 2019
Quotes “I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.” – John Pfahl “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” – Garry Winogrand “My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.” … Continue reading
Monday Missive — November 11, 2019
Quotes “Ideas, bread and books are all the same–they’re better when they’re shared.” — Seth Godin “Staring out the window to me is very constructive time. I bounce off the walls of my imagination and, every once in while an … Continue reading
Monday Missive — November 4, 2019
Quotes “I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” –- Mary Ellen Mark … Continue reading
Monday Missive — October 28, 2019
Quotes “Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.” – John Paul Caponigro “Arriving at a plateau in any art form, and staying there … Continue reading
Posted in Links and Quotes
Tagged action, architecture, art dealer, Links and Quotes, National Geographic, New Guinea, portraits, Rosemarie Yang, Simon Baxter, sports, street photography, whimsey, woodland
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Monday Missive — October 21, 2019
Quotes “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda … Continue reading
Monday Missive — October 14, 2019
Quotes “Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” – Man Ray “Well you can’t … Continue reading
Monday Missive — October 7, 2019
Quotes “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy “Just put on the lens and go.” – Miroslav Tichy “When someone looks at an image … Continue reading
Posted in Links and Quotes
Tagged Gertrude Kasebier, History of photography, infrared, IR, Links and Quotes, symmetry
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Monday Missive — September 30, 2019
Quotes “It’s pretty simple, really. Be decent, friendly, curious and respectful. Works most of the time.” — Joe McNally “Ultimately, the goal in my work is to elicit emotion, be it wonderment, joy, silliness, happiness, solitude. I think because I … Continue reading
Monday Missive — September 23, 2019
Quotes “Like a boxer trains for a fight, a photographer, by walking the streets, and watching, and taking pictures, and coming home, and going out the next day — same thing again, taking pictures,” Frank said in 2009. “It doesn’t … Continue reading
Monday Missive — September 16b, 2019
Ooops. I published September 16 on September 9, but won’t change the dates because the URL uses the title and I am not sure what will happen to the posting. That’s why this is labeled “16b.” Sorry for the confusion. … Continue reading
Monday Missive — September 16, 2019
Ooops. I published September 16 on September 9, but won’t change the dates, because the URL uses the title and I am not sure what will happen to the posting. Sorry for the confusion. Quotes “For each of the artists, … Continue reading
Monday Missive — September 2, 2019
Quotes “Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and … Continue reading
Posted in Links and Quotes
Tagged architectural, black and white, BW, consistency, David Yarrow, Landscape, lens cleaning, Links and Quotes, Monochrome, Photoshop, shadows, split toning, wildlife, Woodstock
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Monday Missive — August 19, 2019
Quotes “Your first task is not to figure out what “art” means, or to have an exhibit, write a book, or get business cards that say “artist” on them. It’s to be (and to become) you. . . . “You” … Continue reading
Posted in Links and Quotes
Tagged Appalachia, composites, glare, glasses, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, locomotive, steam engines, trains
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Monday Missive — August 12, 2019
Quotes Toni Morrison: In Memoriam “Freeing yourself was one thing. Claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to … Continue reading