Traverse City Sign - Hasselblad

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber

Prairie Flower - Isolette

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene

Traverse City Gate - Hasselblad

“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”  - Henry David Thoreau

Antique Cow Stanchions - Canon S 95

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa

Late Summer Sunflower - Canon S95

"You can't think your way to a better living, you have to live your way to a better thinking." - Anonymous

Silo Through Glass - Canon S95

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” ― Ansel Adams

Gate - Canon S95

“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.” ― Ansel Adams

Abandoned Barn Switches - Canon S95

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” ― Ansel Adams

Abandoned Barn Door - Canon S95

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” ― Ted Grant

Little House in the Tree - Canon S95

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” ― Dorothea Lange

Niles Cemetery Door Detail - Canon S95

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson

Summer Sunflower - Canon S95

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty

Beautiful Angel - Canon S95

“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good." – Anonymous

Angel Baby - Canon S95

“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment." – Elliott Erwitt

Praying Hands - 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

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