Sketching the Moment
Tag: photography
Poetry for Your Eyes
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do
when they want to read a line of a poem... twice.
- Robert Frank
Getting It Right
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Momento Mori
All photographs are memento mori.
To take a photograph is to participate in another
person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it,
all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt
- Susan Sontag
Trust and Rapport
All the planning, intuition, technical prowess, and knowledge,
as well as the trust and rapport you have (or haven’t) established,
will show up in the picture, frozen forever.
- Gregory Heisler
This is something that many photographers, including myself, sometimes forget. It can really hurt a potentially great photo shoot.
What is Photography?
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye, and the heart.
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photogravity
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture
is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
- Edward Weston
The Power of Image
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years,
regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
– Anne Geddes
Time and Remebrance
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
– Peter Adams
Everything Changes
