I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who’ve just got nothing to lose. You know, let’s kamikaze this thing – just throw themselves in it, devil may care.
Ed Ruscha
Category: thoughts
a fork in the road
Like the man said – when you come to a fork in the road, take it…
playing
For several years now I’ve taken pictures (I don’t ‘make’ photographs) with my phone. Mostly I shoot pretty straight, and mostly b/w. Sometimes though I like to experiment with other things like this NOMO wet plate camera.
There are any number of things I can play with. I can shoot straight. I can shoot with a wet plate look. I can play with instant cameras, and half-frame cameras, or disposable cameras or multi -exposure cameras. I can shoot high contrast b/w, or subdued color when I want to. Even garish carnival midway-like color, but I don’t want to do that.
I use Snapseed for any post processing I want to do. Generally it’s just minor tweaks to contrast and tonality and adding a little grain. But there are endless possibilities with it. Most of it I’ll seldom use, if ever, but it’s all available right here at my fingertips. Camera and darkroom right here in my hand. And the damn thing will slide right into my pocket. How cool is that?
from hunter s. thompson
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
Hunter S. Thompson
from robert frank
I try to be honest. Sometimes it is too sad. Now it’s Monday in the world. The beginning of the afternoon. June is building a forge. You must always keep an iron in the fire, my brother.
Robert Frank
from robert adams
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.
Robert Adams – from ‘Beauty in Photography’
words from elliott erwitt
Photography is simply a function of noticing things. All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.
Elliott Erwitt
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