2012.08.08 That's all you have

In a still photograph you basically have two variables,

where you stand and when you press the shutter.

That’s all you have.

~ Henry Wessel

But, in processing . . . you have the world.

~ Me

Linked to:  Tones on Tuesday

2012.08.06 Who she is

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like,

it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

~ Paul Caponigro

My niece, Melanie . . . her portrait should show . . .

strong, loyal, funny, beautiful, stylish, talented.

Then, it would be who she is.

Linked to:  Sweet Shot Tuesday
Tuesday's Tips and Pics

2012.08.05 Make visible

[ rolls of fencing ]

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

~ Henri Cartier Bresson


Linked to:  Mandarin Orange Monday

2012.08.04 The gift of paying attention

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

~ Julia Margaret Cameron

Linked to:  A Rural Journal and The View from Right Here

2012.08.03 What we see is what we are

And what I am is unsettled.

I love my "take it with me everywhere" Canon point-and-shoot.

“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

A dilemma . . .

I love taking photos and processing them.

I love blogging what I've created.

These things relax me, I lose my sense of time while creating.

But, when there are many other things to be done,

whether work, church, volunteer, family, or fun

or all these seemingly at once . . .

what used to relax me

becomes a chore.

And I feel I'm letting myself down.

Luckily, I'm old enough to know that this dilemma will soon pass :)

And, so I wait . . . and work and volunteer and help others first.

Because, after all, that is the point . . .

to put others' needs before mine.

And to do it cheerfully.

[ smile ]