Friday, June 26, 2009

QOTD 6/26/2009

Photography. The best cure for a bad memory. John E. Burkowski (Todd-Last quote for a few days as I will be living out the Gospel in Peru for the next week.)

Thursday, June 25, 2009

QOTD 6/25/2009

Satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different. David Burnett

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

QOTD 6/24/2009

Photography is not a bad past-time for people who can't paint. Sydney Cabbie

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

QOTD 6/23/2009

Photographs are like wine, they get better with age. John E. Burkowski

Monday, June 22, 2009

POTW 6/22/2009

Having a little fun after capturing some traditional headshots with Whitney and mom Rhonda.

QOTD 6/22/2009

Free is the one light source given by a window which faces north. It's a painterly light that any face comes alive in. Garry Camp Burdick

Sunday, June 21, 2009

QOTD 6/21/2009

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. Peg Bracken

Friday, June 19, 2009

QOTD 6/19/2009

The moment you realize you are not photographing a subject but are photographing light is when you have control over the medium.  Daryl Benson

Thursday, June 18, 2009

QOTD 6/18/2009

Most things in life are moments of pleasure & a lifetime of embarrassment; photos are a moment of embarrassment & a lifetime of pleasure. TonyBenn

POTW 6/18/2009


          Shot between 8am and 9:30am at Old Town Grapevine and Grapevine Springs Park.  The Rountree boys were on there best behavior, mugging it up for the camera.  The promise of a trip to Yogurtville (not Yogurtland) may have had something to do with it.  Happy Father's Day Mark.  


Wednesday, June 17, 2009

QOTD 6/17/2009

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.  Roland Barthes

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

QOTD 6/16/2009

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... photoshop  Tyra Banks

Monday, June 15, 2009

QOTD 6/15/2009

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform them by photographing them. Morley Baer

Sunday, June 14, 2009

QOTD 6/14/2009

Either one captures the moment at the perfect time, or not.  And if not, it is lost forever.  Michael Britt

Friday, June 12, 2009

QOTD 6/12/2009

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. Francis Bacon

Thursday, June 11, 2009

QOTD 6/11/2009

Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light. Francis Bacon

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

QOTD 6/10/2009

I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized. - Louis Fabian Bachrach

Saturday, June 6, 2009

QOTD 6/7/2009

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.  Richard Avedon

POTW 6/8/2009

Shot midday under the George Bush Tollway using supplemental off camera flash thru a diffused, high right.  Interesting yet simple background. 

Friday, June 5, 2009

QOTD 6/6/2009

Point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. No photo editor can crop you from the picture. KenAuletta

Thursday, June 4, 2009

QOTD 6/5/2009

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.  Eugene Atget

QOTD 6/4/2009

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have the film (memory card in the digital age). Anonymous

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

QOTD 6/3/2009

When people say photography is not art what they actually mean is THEIR photography is not art. - Anonymous

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

QOTD 6/2/2009

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. - Anonymous

Monday, June 1, 2009

QOTD 6/1/2009

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photo looks perishable we say "Gee I'm glad I have that moment." John Loengard