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Monday Missive — August 24, 2020

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou “Here were creatures so exquisitely fashioned that they seemed unreal, their beauty too fragile to exist in a world of crushing force.” — … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — July 20, 2020

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “Magritte was an artist who worked in ideas, not in craft.” – Seth Godin 11/17/14 “[Photography is] very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s as much about what you leave … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — July 6, 2020

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “Photography is a window to place, time and memory.” — Soomin Ham “If you want more creative photographs, you need to learn to think more creatively: not different gear, but different thoughts.” — David duChemin “The decisive moment is … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 8, 2020

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” –- Garry Winogrand “In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don’t do it, you don’t know what might happen.” … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 1, 2020

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” — Toni Morrison “You don’t need to explain yourself. Shoot what makes you happy.” — Sean Tucker “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — October 21, 2019

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Rich

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 →

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Monday Missive — August 26, 2019

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — July 22, 2019

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.” – David LaChapelle “Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.” – Wynn Bullock “You are responsible for every part … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 24, 2019

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield “A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.” – Annie Leibovitz “I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 17, 2019

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” – Arnold Newman “To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.” — Sarah … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — June 10, 2019

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Rich

Quotes Interviewer James Robert Southard: What makes for your perfect day of shooting? “It is walking into a place, often a new place. It is being in that perfect moment when you see it and you know it and you … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — April 29, 2019

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Rich

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 8, 2019

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Rich

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 — February 18, 2019

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Rich

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 — December 24, 2018

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “Why don’t you put that old print on the floor and I’ll step on it for you and make it even more vintage.” — Brett Weston to Scott Nichols “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” — … Continue reading →

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