2012.06.29 None are the truth

Peony . . .

Bonnie's challenge:  edit a photo to look like a painting . . .

All photos are accurate.

None of them is the truth.

~ Richard Avedon

Linked to:  Pixel Dust Photo Art

2012.06.28 Outside my own window

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera.

But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window.

You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

Linked to:  Photos by LeAnne

A Rural Journal and Two Bears Farm

2012.06.25 Knowing where to stand

Visiting the Exotic Feline Rescue Center . . .

"With over 230 exotic felines calling the EFRC home,

we are one of the largest rescue centers in the United States

for abused, unwanted and neglected exotic felines."

from the Exotic Felice Rescue Center's website

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

~ Ansel Adams

And, at the Rescue Center,

the place to stand is several feet away from the fence :)

~ Me 

2012.06.24 What it feels like

Small town carnival . . .

Tornado, Tilt-a-Whirl, and Scrambler . . .

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

~ David Alan Harvey

Linked to:  The View From Right Here

A Rural Journal

2012.06.22 Not the camera

I'm grateful for simple pleasures

such as sitting at an outdoor table,

in the shade on a still-hot evening,

waiting on pizza,

with loving and fun family . . . 

The important thing is not the camera, but the eye.

~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

2012.06.21 Do not release the shutter

Heuchera "Palace Purple" (common name, Coral Bells) . . .

My theory of composition?

Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

~ Ernst Haas

That's easy . . . right?

~ Me

2012.06.18 Two people in every picture

Clifty Falls State Park . . .

the campgrounds have been mowed leaving swaths of orchard grass between the sites.

It's as if every site is its own room. 

And a photo of me while hiking . . . by Vince . . .

There are always two people in every picture:  the photographer and the viewer.

~ Ansel Adams

2012.06.16 The art of observation

Last weekend, one of the places Vince and I went was Madison

and had lunch while watching the Ohio River . . .

A view across the river . . .

Walking around town,

there are many restored and maintained houses

and some houses and buildings which aren't . . .

(The next 4 photos all have The CoffeeShop Blog's Orton action.)

There are wonderful textures on the buildings . . .

To me, photography is an art of observation.

It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... 

I've found it has little to do with the things you see

and everything to do with the way you see them.

~ Elliott Erwitt

Linked to:  The View From Right Here
You Sunday Best at A Rural Journal

2012.06.15 Skylight, framed

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude...

~ Susan Sontag

Linked to:  Pixel Dust

2012.06.14 Sunlight catches . . .

. . . a few leaves in a wooded ravine . . .

2012.06.12 One of my favorite places . . .

where we usually go for our anniversary,

but this year we went early.

It's so peaceful, calming, a place to slow . . . everything . . . 

Me . . . by Vince . . .

 A photograph is the pause button of life.

~  Ty Holland

2012.06.10 Crop-dusters!

The last several days have been busy . . .

lots of enjoyment.

A couple of hours on Thursday were spent watching some small planes and crop-dusters . . .

. . . with Vince and Lee.

jan and kids watching a take-off . . .

More photos . . .

 Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

~ Lisa Jones

2012.06.05 The beauty of life, captured

[ Kim Klassen's Trust texture VividLight PSE vignette ]

Photography is the beauty of life, captured.

~ Tara Chisholm

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.

~ Psalm 37: 3-4

Linked to:

Texture Tuesday at Kim Klassen

Shutter Sisters

2012.06.02 Enjoying the process

[ Nancy Claelys - A Rural Journal Jennifer texture LinearBurn ]

You can also see sometimes that the best pictures

are the ones where you didn’t try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process –

and you didn’t even know why you were making the picture.

It felt right.

If someone asked, "Why are you making this picture?" 

you probably couldn’t describe it very well –

and that’s why it needs to be a photograph.

~ John Sexton

To enjoy the process is the goal

in the taking of the photograph

and

in the use of textures, cropping, and blending modes.

~ Me


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Your Sunday Best at A Rural Journal