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Monday Missive — May 13, 2019

Quotes “…  I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.” — Steve McCurry “Knowledge is preferable to ignorance.. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.” – … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 6, 2019

Quotes “I decided to accept as true my own thinking. I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain, and I am quite free.” — Georgia O’Keeffe via Cole Thompson “Sometimes you have … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 29, 2019

Quotes “That’s why I fight against the notion of rules. . . They don’t encourage the kind of questions that will get us to making better photographs. They don’t ask Why. As in, ‘Why am I making this photograph and … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 22, 2019

Quotes “To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.” — James Carse “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” — Theodore Dreiser “. . .  it’s not knowing how to … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 15, 2019

Quotes – 10 quotes from writers that will make you a better photographer — From Steve Links Photoessays/Bodies of Work– A lifetime of work on 152 acres Interesting concept and execution, although some of the images are so abstract or … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 8, 2019

Quotes “One of the greatest barriers to creativity and to life is fear. That fear manifests itself in many ways but one of the more destructive is the perfectionism so many of us are paralyzed by.” — David DuChemin “Being … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 1, 2019

Quotes “The tool so many of us use to make our art—the camera—is also a way to see the world; to be more alive in this world. It can be a tool that brings such joy, and a means of … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — March 25, 2019

Quotes “Art isn’t about what others say about our art, but what we say through that art.” — David DuChemin “The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — March 18, 2019

Quotes “We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that’s the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it’s called documentary, which … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — March 11, 2019

Quotes “. . . Look how beautiful are all the things that He does. His signatureIs the beauty of things.” — Robinson Jeffers “And the photographs have a reality for me that the people don’t. It’s through the photographs that … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 25, 2019

Quotes “If it’s a likeness, alone, it’s not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind–if you see … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 18, 2019

Quotes “The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.“  — Graciela Iturbide “The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.“ — Anne Geddes “Photography, as … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 11, 2019

Quotes “… how did we come so quickly and so far from the time when a guy like Ansel Adams was happy with 12 good photographs a year? Where has the slower, more considered, less frantic approach to craft gone? … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — February 4, 2019

Quotes “Fear of failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were meant to do” — J.K. Rowling “I focus on the photographic object, the print, or the artist book, as a keepsake of my experience … Continue reading

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