Photographs

For your consideration, thoughts from the studio.

“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
– Ansel Adams

“To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”
– Dorothea Lange

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
– Ernst Haas

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
– Man Ray

“The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.”
– Robert Mapplethorpe

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
– W. Eugene Smith

 “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
– Marc Riboud

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting…wonderful!”
– Joe McNally