Cass Country Road In Fall - Canon S95

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." - Eudora Welty

St Joseph River - Canon S95

"Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." - Ambrose Bierce

Abandoned Hardware - Isolette

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Helen Keller

Fall Leaves - Olympus

“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” — Author Unknown

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