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Monday Missive – April 10, 2017

Quotes “Self-doubt kills talent.” – Edie McClurg “Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.” – Jack Nicklaus “Art … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – April 3, 2017

Quotes “It’s tempting to diversify, particularly when it comes to what you offer the world. … More breadth, though, doesn’t cause change, and it won’t get you noticed. Focus works. A sharp edge cuts through the clutter.” — Posted by … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – March 27, 2017

Quotes “I believe in wonder and look for it every day.” – Keith Carter “Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary…” — Steven Weinberg And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in greet underwood and cover Blossom by … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – March 20, 2017

Quotes “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” — Robert Frank “There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – March 13, 2017

Quotes “Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.” – John Paul Caponigro “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” – Jean Luc Goddard “Your photography is a record of your living.” – Paul Strand Links – … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — March 6, 2017

Quotes Lazy but talented That’s most of us. You can work really hard to get a little more talented. And you can also work to get a little less lazy. It turns out that getting less lazy, more brave—more clear … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 27, 2017

Quotes “Creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a pure numbers game.” — Robert Sutton “I found I could say things … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – February 20, 2017

Quotes “Inspiring photographs… – Can teach you a lot about photography. – Can expose you to new techniques and photographers. – Can provide great fodder for online sharining. – Can be the ultimate creativity-killing distraction.” — CJ Chilvers in A … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – February 13, 2017

Quotes “We are only trying to tell a story. Let the 17th-century painters worry about the effects. We’ve got to tell it now, let the news in, show the hungry face, the broken land, anything so that those who are … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – February 6, 2017

Quotes “I do what I feel, that’s all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That’s all I’ve ever done.” – Andre Kertesz “Sometimes you don’t know why you’re doing something. You’re intuitively following, to see where … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — January 30, 2017

Quotes “What we choose not to do matters.” — Seth Godin, 5/20/16 “As soon as we say the truth is relative, and shiftable, and a matter of opinion, we lose the power that comes from knowing.” — Seth Godin 4/1/16 … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — January 23, 2017

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

“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

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

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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