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Monday Missive — January 23, 2017

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Rich

Quotes “Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.” – Chuck Close “I … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – January 16, 2017

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Rich

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this innerlife will result in his personal vision of the world.” – Edward Hopper “Broken and broken again on the sea, the moon so easily mends.” … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – January 9, 2017

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Rich

Quotes The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. — Robinson … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – Jan. 2, 2017

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Rich

Quotes Wondering—Past and Future Wondering about your past, about what might have happened, about bad decisions made and roads not taken… this is a recipe for not much more than regret. But wondering about your future? When we wonder about … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – December 26, 2016

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.” — Robert A. Heinlein “Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein “My photographs are a … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – December 19, 2016

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “Nature has explained to me many things that books alone could not give me. Science and nature have given me the most interesting hours of my life.” — Roman Vishniac “Logic will never change emotion or perception.” — Edward … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – December 12, 2016

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh “When I looked at the resulting images, however, they felt distant, cold, and … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – December 5, 2016

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur, the challenge is to level set, to be comfortable with the undone, with the cycle of never-ending. We were trained to finish our homework, our peas and our chores. Today, we’re … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – Nov. 28, 2016

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Rich

Quotes [Laura] Henkin said, “I don’t think it gets talked about a lot, but I believe strongly that photographs should all be presented as interpretive prints—meaning, the artist is directing the viewer in what to see. In order to accomplish … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive – November 21, 2016

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” — Ansel Adams “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — November 14, 2016

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “Let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early: Let it flow.” – Ross Lovegrove “I wanted my vision to be just that, my personal vision. Photography is a great way to … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — Nov. 7, 2016

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.” — Edward Abbey “…in the end, creativity is a gift to … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — October 31, 2016

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get.” – Timothy Allen “Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — October 24. 2016

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Rich

Quotes Even stones under mountain waterfalls compose odes to plum blossoms. — Onitsura in Harry Behn in Cricket Songs, Japanese Haiku translated by Harry Behn “Knowledge is preferable to ignorance.. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — Oct. 17, 2016

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Rich

Quotes “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” — Aaron Siskind “Quit trying to find beautiful objects to … Continue reading →

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