I go down to the shore...

I Go Down To The Shore

"I go down to the shore in the morning

and depending on the hour the waves

are rolling in or moving out,

and I say, oh, I am miserable,

what shall-

what shall I do? And the sea says

in its lovely voice:

Excuse me, I have work to do."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings 

"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. You are not here long." -Walker Evans

Photojournalism Quote

"Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify.

The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing. 

Sometimes we have the feeling that we've taken a great photo, and yet we continue to unfold.

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole"

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

on photojournalism, American Photo, Sept/Oct 1997.

Quote of the day

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else". -Judy Garland

Quote of the day

"...And that desire--the strong desire to take pictures--is important.
It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.
Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel.
It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully--and the evidence that other photographers have done so--that keep us taking pictures." -Sam Abell

Quote of the day

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
-Berenice Abbott

Quote of the day

"Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up."
-Jay Maisel

Quote of the day

"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment". -Robert Frank