Praying - Canon S95

“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." – Matt Hardy

Fire Hydrant in Corn Field - Canon S95

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

Water Pot - Canon S95

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

Winter Vines - Isolette

"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” - W. Eugene Smith

Lake Michigan Dock Pilings - Isolette

"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

Norwich Cemetery "Babies" Cross - Hasselblad

"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” - Paul Strand

Lake Superior Rock Formation - Voigtlander

"Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease." - Anonymous

Dowagiac Creek - Holga

"When people ask what equipment I use - I tell them my eyes." - Anonymous

Creek Reflections - Holga

"You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand". - Princess Anne

Peace - Holga

"Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine." - Berenice Abbott

The "L" - Isolette

"The most important lens you have is your legs." - Ernst Haas

The Bean - Isolette

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I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print." - Edward Weston

Books - Olympus RC

""There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs"." - Ansel Adams

Bootlake Reflections - Isolette

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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been." - Diane Arbus

Bootlake - Isolette

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." - Dorothea Lange

Cloud Cover - Isolette

"I photograph for the love of art, not for people's reactions." -Grace Russell

Hay Mound - Isolette

"It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera." - Anonymous

Stair Rail - Voigtlander

"A photograph can be as striking and as haunting as a great painting or a fine poem." - Anonymous

Porch Chairs - Voigtlander

"You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory." - Anonymous

Star Farm #2 - Hasselblad

"A photograph is memory in the raw." - Carrie Latet

Trail Marker - Hasselblad

"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it." - Author Unknown

Shadow and Stairs - Isolette

"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people." - Annie Leibovitz

View From Above - Isolette

"You have to follow your nose...to have a mental attitude about what you feel good about and yearn for in a picture. Being able to say "I like it' or "I don't like it.' That's first." - Jan Groover

Chicago Wall Mural - Isolette

"Through photojournalism you learn that all persons are teachers." - Anonymous

Art Institute Courtyard - Chicago- Isolette

"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't have time to make them all yourself." -Anonymous

Chicago Mural - Isolette

"The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image." - Anne Geddes

Michigan Avenue - Isolette Double Exposure

"The situation catches you - you think it's absurb or mysterious an you just take the picture." - Eva Fuka

African Crates - Isolette

"Done best you're able to be a party to situations without actually being part of them." - Jill Enfield

Grapes in Winter - Holga

"Photographs are moments eternally flabbergasted." - Shayna Bauchner

Flood Water Reflections - Hasselblad

"I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects." - Mary Ellen Mark