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Photographers get a much better payoff by thinking about QI (quality image) rather than IQ (image quality).
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Nobody can ever have enough of everything. But it is possible to give everyone the same.
George Bernard ShawPosted on October 31, 2012 with 2 notes
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It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.
Heinz Stucke, (German long-distance touring cyclist)Posted on October 26, 2012 with 4 notes
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.
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Civilised men are more discourteous than savages because they lnow they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general rule.
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Anytime you’re afraid to try something new…just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.
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Plan B: ‘Find out what kids are good at. It will change their lives’Posted on April 17, 2012 with 1 note
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Give it five minutes
A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view.
It’s like I had to be first with an opinion – as if being first meant something. But what it really meant was that I wasn’t thinking hard enough about the problem. The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often.
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Swagger
Swagger is everything in fashion. Swagger, after all, is the art of looking both ridiculous and authoritative at the same time, which is pretty much fashion in a nutshell.
Think of the Emperor in his supposed New Clothes: the whole narrative depends on the fact that he believes he looks fabulous, and this enables him to walk through the streets with nothing on and have the crowds applaud him for his wardrobe.
This is not, I realise, the moral we are supposed to glean from the Emperor’s New Clothes. But it’s the best part of the story, isn’t it? The part where he parades around in nonexistent finery, before some pedant blows the whistle.
Without that, it’s just the story of some old guy getting done over by a conman, and where’s the fairytale in that?
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The magic of doing one thing at a time
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The promise of happiness is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work.
For it is then that the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting.
Until then he had almost dared hope that the picture might spring to life.
Lucien Freud -
Every work of art is a child of its time.
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…there is no such thing as technical perfection. There is no perfect camera. There is no perfect lens, flash, film or Photoshop plugin.
There is only the perfect image — and people have been taking them for well over a hundred years with some amazingly imperfect gear.
Gregory Simpson, Gear Guano CanalPosted on February 24, 2012 with 1 note
Source: ultrasomething.com
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Photography and Trust
As a photographer, you won’t get around bringing your desire to photography, just as a viewer you do the same thing. You have no choice.
As I have argued before, photography must fail if that desire is denied. But desire does not automatically create good photography.
An equally crucial factor is trust.
Posted on February 9, 2012 with 6 notes
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
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Hello there, nice to meet you.
I don't know about you but I find myself constantly on the prowl for new sources of creative inspiration, whether it's architectural plans, illustration, skateboarding videos, fashion, furniture design or some bizarre, niche technological advance.
If things go to plan, the most intriguing and exciting of these discoveries and some incredible, inspiring photography will wash up here, on the shores of Tumblr.
You can find my own photographic endeavours over on my blog which is located at www.wearehomegrown.co.uk
Drink tea. Eat cake. Ride bikes. Walk dogs. Vote left. Live free.
