DAILY BLOG

“I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” ~ Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)

“Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go stop and say hello

On the corner is a banker with a motor car
And the little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a Mac in the pouring rain”


Paul McCartney/John Lennon

“An afternoon at the end of winter, Place de la Concorde. Before disappearing, the sun filters through the clouds and sensually outlines the curves of the parked cars. A fleeting effect, which needs to be captured on the spot. The Paris sky is - in the eye of this Parisian - one of the most beautiful and varied in the world, perhaps because of the relative proximity of the English Channel. But that doesn’t mean it is beautiful all the time. Furthermore we must never neglect special moments when they present themselves. Many of the images in my work are the result of dismissing so -called good reasons such as “I’ll do this some other time. I’m late, that’s enough for today” and worst of all, “So, what am I going to use that for?”

~ Willy Ronis

“My camera is like the arrow. Do I reach the target or does the target reach me or is it the same thing? It’s all very emotional.”

~ Bernard Plossu

“Nowhere else would I have had the privilege of meeting so many different individuals as in the school courtyard during break when I played the ambulant photographer.”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

"For a young photographer, it was an intoxicating time. The bay, the bridges, and the City, with its steep hills, fog, and cable cars were a delicious kaleidoscope parading before my lens. Curiosity and passion for the impressionism of nature drove me on, barely ever letting my camera cool."

~ Fred Lyon
(1924-2022)

“Art, both contemplating and creating it, is a way to be in the present moment."

~ Paul Cupido

"Nature does not jump into the camera, focus itself, expose itself, develop itself, and print itself."

~ P.H. Emerson
(1856 - 1936)
From Naturalistic Photography, 1889.

"Very often I say to myself: 'I would like to make a photo where nothing happens.' My dream would be to achieve that purity."

~ Sarah Moon

“Photographers should let their work be seen. When a viewer views the work in a different context from the photographer’s it creates new layers of meaning."

~ Daido Moriyama

"Loss is very much a part of everyone’s life and my photographs are a call to live."

~ Cig Harvey

“I refuse to show the dark side of life. I hate ugliness, it makes me physically sick. But melancholy and compassion, these may be minor values, but they’re the ones that move me most of all.”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

“Darling you are in love with my camera."

~ Georges Dambier
(1925-2011)

“The continuous cycle of existence often reminds me of the quiet ebb and flow of the tide-rising, falling, and inevitably returning to its vast source. "Core V" is a visual reflection on this profound and ceaseless rhythm. When I observe the delicate form of the dandelion, I do not merely see a plant, but a quiet trace of the unseen vitality that breathes through all living things. It is a crystallization of life suspended in the eternal current. We are not separate from nature; we are simply a single drop within its boundless wave.

A single life may appear fragile and small, yet it is intricately woven into an eternal thread that has been flowing since ancient times. When quietly facing this fragile existence, my heart resonates deeply with the invisible pulse released in the very moments life emerges and gently fades.
By giving visual form to this silent tremor, I wish to express my deepest reverence for the unseen force. It is a quiet reflection on the beautiful pulse of life that silently sustains us all."

~ Ryuji Taira

"My practice is split between two roles: that of the photographer, who harvests observations, and the printmaker, who transforms the observations into physical objects. The careful and conscious choice of printing process and paper is critical, as it amplifies the voice of the original observation and gives the photograph an essential tactile presence – inviting the viewer into an intimate, sensory engagement with the imagery."

~ Jeffrey Conley

“You walk into a place, you see there could be a great picture but something is missing. If that something comes it can be a good photo if not, it’s nothing."

~ Gianni Berengo Gardin
(1930-2025)

“India is the one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined."

Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)

“Photography always shows aspects of things or of other people you don’t know of that are revealed through the photographic process.”

~ Flor Garduño

“I don’t like honors. Only lion tamers are decorated. As for tight rope walkers, a medal would make them lose their balance.”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

"It may look like I’m just pointing the camera at what’s in front of me. But I’m trying to photograph what people see, but don’t notice – something that’s mysterious and unknown in everyday life."

~ Daido Moriyama

“Many things happen along the way that might be called serendipitous. For instance when you're making a print you might by chance create something you hadn't visualized in the the beginning. Even through an error you might arrive at something that is more exciting than the original concept. And, of course, that can't happen if someone is doing the printing for you."

~ Don Worth
(1924 - 2009)

“It’s not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You’re still young, that’s your fault
There’s so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want-you can marry
Look at me, I am old but Im happy”

Father and Son
Lyrics Cat Stevens

“I carry your heart with me
I carry it in my heart
I am never without it anywhere I go.”

E.E. Cummings
(1894-1962)

“I can only say that when I draw my last breath, that is the end of my time and the end of my photography, photo graphs will continue to be connected to each other, even if they take on a different form.
That’s the way it is"

~ Daido Moriyama

"I've been inspired to photograph people, eccentricity, the art world, fashion and parties."

~ Dafydd Jones

“Humour is a feeling of shame for overt emotion.When the scene is too tender-or too cruel- you take refuge in humor to avoid that sense of embarrassment."

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

"We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barrier, planting seed
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra, "peace on Earth"
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kind of Druid dude, lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic, the search for the grail"

~ John Lennon
Mindgames

“To me photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.”

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

“A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while”

Don McClean
American Pie 1971

“If you think you have completed your work, you are finished."

~ Daido Moriyama

Green is the color of nature and life, the dominant color of plants and forests. It represents the living world and the outdoors.
It signifies spring and new beginnings and growth and harmony .

“I held her close but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green
Turned to brown”

Paul Simon
Lyrics “Leaves That Are Green”

“I work for the pleasure of the work and everything else is a matter for the critics. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death”

~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)

“The body of a woman
Is a poem
That at the prompting
Of the spirit
Wrote God
Our Lord
Is the great album
Of Nature”

~ Heinrich Heine
(1797-1856)

“The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later, but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.”

~ George Tice
(1938-2025)

“Art has many roles, maybe the common one is to avoid knowledge and understanding of the world and life. The role of science is also the same but more universal. The major difference is that art is not progressing like science. The findings of a new research makes old knowledge expired but in art old achievements are timeless.”

~ Pentti Sammallahti

“I took mischievous pleasure in bringing to light anything abandoned, not just among people but also in my choice of backgrounds.”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

“Even though the photographs were taken by me in the end they belong to the viewer."

~ Daido Moriyama

“I came up with the idea of getting as many musicians together in one place as we could. It would be a sort of graduation photo or class picture of all the jazz musicians. After I thought about it some more I decided they should get together in Harlem. After all that’s where Jazz started when it came to New York.”

~ Art Kane
(1925-1995)

“When you walk through a storm hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark”

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein from “Carousel”

“ I could never work in someone else’s studio. I am of an independent nature and need my own surroundings.”
The first model that ever inspired me was Liz Gibbons. This long, long girl whose skin was almost gold."

~ Louise Dahl -Wolfe
(1895-1989)

“The best images are rarely planned or expected, but result from moments of lucky co incidence."

~ Pentti Sammallahti


“Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas,I have felt that some un earthly and unknown light illuminated me.
In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism.It is of all ages, climbs and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge.
When I read it,II feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a Summer Night”

~ Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)

"I detected in her not only compassion, but also a tenderness and a gentleness that men didn’t have.”

~ Raymond Depardon
The great French photographer on her passing.

Photography is not a profession. It is a compulsion.
~ Fred Lyon
(1924-2022)

“Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach
Or to Hollywood
But I'm taking a Greyhound
On the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind"
Billy Joel

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.”

~ Barack Obama

“Photography teaches us to see and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photography I make a wish, I was always looking for beauty.”

~ George Tice (1938-2025)

“I was sorry I couldn't be closer to people but I didn't dare go up to them. And now it is precisely those images - they have so much space in them -
that are the most touching.”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912 - 1994)

“All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I’ve been for a walk
On a winter’s day
I’d be safe and warm
If I was in LA
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day"

John Phillips/Michele Phillips
The Mamas and the Papas

"I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh and just like the river
I’ve been running ever since
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh yes it will”

~ Sam Cooke

“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic.That is why my contact with music is a total embrace”

~ Leonard Bernstein

“All my life I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”

~ Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

“Blue songs are like tattoos
You know I’ve been to sea before
Crown and anchor me
Or let me sail away
Hey Blue, here is a song for you"

Joni Mitchell from “Blue”

"It felt as if the end were nigh. With the sun obliterated by dark smoke, a Dantean landscape stretched as far as the eye could see. The horizon itself was marked by torches of fire where burning oil leapt from the lifeless desert."

~ Sebastião Salgado
(1944 - 2025)

“For over four decades my photography has explored the dialogue between humanity and nature, tradition and time.
I work to capture moments where the ordinary reveals its hidden poetry- where visible and invisible words converge through black and white compositions that speak not just to what we see but to what we feel.”

~ Flor Garduño

“The high class in Britain gives itself in spectacle to the people of the street who just cheer them. It’s a funny old country. Everybody adores old customs which have no more use anymore.”

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908-2004)

“Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy,. taxi light, shines so bright
But I don’t need no friends,
As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset
I am in paradise”

Ray Davies, The Kinks

“I love my dog
As much as I love you
You may fade
My dog will always come through “

~ Cat Stevens

“My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.”

~ Wynn Bullock
(1902-1975)

“It’s a little funny
This feeling inside
I’m not one of those who can easily hide
I don’t have much money but boy if I did
I’d buy a big house where we both could live

If I were a sculptor, ha
But then again no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it’s not much, but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one’s for you”

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Music by Elton John

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels in the deepest sense about what is being photographed."
~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

"You build on failure. You use it as stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time or any of your space."

~ Johnny Cash
(1932 - 2003)

“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you’re mine I walk the line
I find it very, easy to be true. I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes I’ll admit that I’m a fool for you
Because you’re mine, I walk the line."

~ Johnny Cash
(1932 -2003)

“Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny"

Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)

“Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man no time to talk
Music loud and women warm
I’ve been kicked around since I was born
And now it’s all right, it’s okay
And you may look the other way
But we can try to understand
The New York Times effect on man”

Song by Bee Gees 1977

“My quest, through the magic of light and shadows, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. My nudes are ideals of my own feelings about being a woman, not an expression or erotic power or a love object”

~ Ruth Bernhard
(1905-2006)

“Ruth Bernhard, the greatest photographer of the nude ever.”

~ Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)

"That desire the photographer must feel in the instant he takes the shot.. If you don’t have desire ,you wont’t see what’s there."

~ Daido Moriyama

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines."

—by Pablo Neruda, translated by M.S. Merwin

“I like taking photographs because I like life.”

~ Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)

"I was born on a small Dutch island and grew up surrounded by nature.
Our daily lives were punctuated by the seasons, the movements of the tides and the phases of the moon.”

~ Paul Cupido

“It would be difficult to take a bad picture of Marilyn Monroe. She is a real star. She’s sensitive in spite of her popularity”

~ Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)


“I've given myself away, the whole of me, every part”

~ Marilyn Monroe
(1926 - 1962)

“Broken windows and empty hallways
A plan dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it’s gonna rain today
Right before me the signs implore me
Help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it’s going to rain today”

~ Randy Newman

"Photography is undoubtedly a cultural act... I'm content simply to be a photographer—indeed, I'm proud of it!"

~ Gianni Berengo Gardin
(1930 - 2025)

This land is your land and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I went walking that ribbon of Highway
And all around me a voice keeps singing
This land was made for you and me”

~ Woody Guthrie
(1912-1967)

“I come home in the morning light
My mother says “When you gonna live your life right?”
Oh momma dear, we’re not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh girls just wanna have fun”
Cyndi Lauper

Some photographs reveal everything at first glance, while others stay with you and want you to revisit time and time again.

Made in Chicago in 1959 while Ray Metzker was studying at the Institute of Design under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, this photograph belongs to the remarkable body of work he made while exploring Chicago's Loop. Metzker later wrote, "The Loop was not so much the idea to be expressed as the situation or location wherein the camera and photographer find meaning."

The longer you spend with this image, the more it gives back to us. The people, the beautiful play of light and shadow. It feels like a familiar city scene, yet packed with so much mystery.

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl.All little girls should be told they are pretty ,even if they aren’t”

~ Marilyn Monroe
(1926-1962)

“Goodbye Norma Jeane
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the wood work
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would've liked to know you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did”

Lyrics: Bernie Taupin.
Music: Elton John

"I don't like to tell people what to do… I rather take things as they are and choose the right moment."

~ Wolfgang Suschitzky
(1912 - 2016)

“I like people for their weaknesses and defects.I get along with ordinary people.We talk.We start taking about time and gradually we get to the important things. When I photograph them it is not as if I were examining them with a magnifying glass like a cold and scientific observer.It’s a very fraternal thing and it’s wonderful to shed light on these people who are never in the spotlight”

~ Robert Doisneau
(1912-1994)

“Only photography can give people that air of family that it is almost impossible to render in writing”

~ Blaise Cendrars
(1887-1961)

Definition: “Heroes: individuals noted for exceptional bravery, outstanding achievement, or fine personal character.”

“I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall"

~ David Bowie “Heroes"

“I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again, cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy weather
To be near you, to be free"

Lyrics by Graham Sutherland
Recorded by Rod Stewart

“Everywhere around the world
They’re coming to America
Every time that flag’s unfurled
They’re coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They’re coming to America
Got a dream they’ve come to share
They’re coming to America”

~ Neil Diamond

“Little Carmen is the ideal painter’s beauty…..Her almond shaped eyes are those of a Renaissance beauty.The planes of her face are those of a Botticelli page, her long neck that of a Botticelli figure of Spring. She is an American beauty of an antique other age".

~ Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)