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Monday Missive — October 5, 2020

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “What I have learned in art school is that art cannot be taught. You can learn techniques, but no teacher or school can make an artist. That comes from the deepest self. That comes from long battles with your … 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 — May 25, 2020

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “. . . creativity is about doing the work rather than waiting for inspiration or talent to kick in.” — David duChemin “inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us show up and get to work.” — Chuck Close … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — May 4, 2020

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Rich

Quotes “I have been obsessed for years with finding new projects to work on. … At times, I have purposely let go of that frame of mind and gone with, what I would tell myself, is the pleasure of just … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — April 27, 2010

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Rich

Quotes – 20 photography quotes Links Photoessays/Bodies of Work – Really excellent nature composites – Story telling with pictures – Vietnam Portraits Post-processing – Using color properly in landscape photography – Using gradient maps to increase the luminosity of portraits … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — October 28, 2019

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Rich

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 →

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Monday Missive — July 1, 2019

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Rich

Quotes [Poetry is] “an immense conversation of the soul.” — Joy Harjo, next US poet laureate of the US. Applies to photography as well. “The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it … 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 3, 2019

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “You are your own first and most important audience. That’s how you please your audience. By making your art for you.” — David DuChemin ‘“[He] encouraged me to let myself go, not hold anything back, try everything,” she recalled‘ … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — May 13, 2019

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Rich

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 — February 25, 2019

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Rich

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

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 — February 11, 2019

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Rich

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 — January 28, 2019

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Rich

Quotes “The more personal you make your work, the more universal it becomes.” — Katrin Eismann “The enemy of art is the total lack of limitations.” — Orson Wells “I chose nature photography as a way of capturing and sharing … Continue reading →

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Monday Missive — December 31, 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Rich

Quotes “…follow the quiet nudges of your intuition.” — Ursula von Rydingsvard “…I can doubt pieces before making them, but I have to jump into the unknown to get somewhere. I have to dare to make them.” — Paola Pivi … Continue reading →

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