Quotes
What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Photography helps people to see.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
My device was setup in my backyard and the other one math instructor Raymond Crilley was using in Iowa City.
I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.
You usually don't get the copyright or reprint rights in a shared-world or work-for-hire situation, so your ability to make additional money off your work is limited.
Writing genre fantasy requires a few more research twists, most of them involving magic. By the time I start the first draft, whatever magic system I've built is meant to seem fundamental to the world I've created, but it's really an afterthought.
Whenever I encounter an article that makes my ears wiggle, I give it a number, write a summary for my database and put the article in a file cabinet. Searching the database is faster and easier than trying to have a fancy filing system.