“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them Gin, and have a party.
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“Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can’t go hand in hand, I don’t want to go.”
— Hazel Scott
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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
ILuminares is a tough neighborhood. You might feel another hand when you put a hand in some cement.
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To collect photographs is to collect the world. ~Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave," On Photography, 1977
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Life doesn't hold still. Vintage camera shops are dwindling. Get what you need.
Among the natives of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore are delightful. So I try to create each image as if I compose a poem
“...it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.”
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Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
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It seems to me that the world is the best source of excitement; a great source of visual beauty; and a source of intellectual interest. It is a source of so much in life that makes life worth living.