Margaret Bourke-White

I know of nothing to equal the happy expectancy of finding something new, something unguessed in advance, something only you would find, because as well as being a photographer, you were a certain kind of human being, and you would react to something all others might walk by.



 

Joan Didion

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
David Hurn

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of such complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure for me, in things such as they are

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Monday
Jan092012

hanging branches

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Palace of Fine Arts ( San Francisco, California ) ~

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Saturday
Jan072012

jack kerouac

Jack Kerouac Alley San Francisco, California

"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great..."

- Jack Kerouac

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Wednesday
Jan042012

wednesday

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San Francisco, California ~

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Monday
Jan022012

one day in september

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 San Francisco, California ~

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Sunday
Jan012012

2012

Entrance

 the Presidio, San Francisco

 

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenly..."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Wishing you a wonderful 2012~

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