A pen or sword Are simple tools.
A pen or sword Are simple tools.
through a glass darkly...
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
- Dorothea Lange
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
- AA
Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own.
- Brooks Jensen
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
- Ruth Bernhard
Take the damn picture already.
- Many of my friends, while I take a picture.
Not directly photographic, but it applies - "Not all those who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien (letter from Gandalf to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring)
That Tolkien quote has been one of the most comforting things in my adult life. Granted, for much of that time I've definitely felt lost, but the urge to wander is a much bigger thing than that.
What’s wrong with being lost? ;^)
Dante gets lost in the very first line of The Divine Comedy.
Then he needs Virgil to get around, and later Beatrice.
That doesn’t stop him from being the best wanderer of all.
One of my favorite quotes regarding my profession and hobbies.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
'Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful. But not everyone knows the usefulness of the useless.' — Chuang-Tzu
I like that quote. You must have stated it elsewhere on this site
wow how many quotes threads do we have
anyway
enlarge those sheets of film to something grander and you can see that while the "differences" are still seemingly small and insignificant they are now huge when confronted
stand atop the waves in a boat and look down
water
maybe a fish
stand in a boat in the middle of the ocean on increasinlgy larger waves
water
maybe a fish
but there are whales down there you just cant see because you wont go
see below.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
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