Monthly Archives: January 2010
Weekend Update
I spent the majority of my weekend doing some maintenance on my parents house. It started with a simple enough request. My mom wanted me to hang a door for her. That simple little task turned into a full weekend of fix-its. Including re-tiling a bathroom, and fixing a kitchen sink. It seems I’m just [...]
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Photography Quote – Robert Mapplethorpe
“Sell the public flowers… things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.”
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Photography Quote – Paul Strand
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
- Paul Strand (1890-1976)
Photography Quote – Helmut Newton
“The photographs don’t arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”
- Helmut Newton (1920-2004)
Photography Quote – Cecil Beaton
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
- Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)
Photography Quote – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Liz Dunn
A few weeks back I got a call from a good friend of mine, Liz Dunn. Liz is quite the pageant queen. Her most current title is Miss Watermelon Festival 2010 and she will be competing in the Miss Louisiana Pageant later this year. So when Liz called me for her official head shots I [...]
Photography Quote – Richard Avedon
“My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.”
-Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Photo of The Week
Sunday I spent the majority of my day organizing a huge backlog of photos. At some point during this immense process I realized I have A LOT of good photos that never really get seen by anyone, because of this I decided to post one photo a week from my archive. These selections will be [...]
Photography Quote – Joel Peter Witkin