“You cared enough about these moments to hire a professional to photograph them. Follow that through by having a professional print them. Have that professional print the pictures you put into frames and have them design you a high-quality wedding album that you will cherish for decades.”
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-trenske/the-case-against-good-enough_b_2967170.html)
If you’re planning your wedding right now, please just close the magazine. Log out of Pinterest. And look at the person you want to grow old with. Remind yourself of why you’re doing this. And really CELEBRATE when that day comes. Don’t stress about your shoes or your cake or your flowers. Don’t stress about anything. When it’s all over, you will be married, and surrounded by the people who know you and love you most in the whole wide world.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-almasy/resolution_1_b_2761883.html)
To find your calling is a gift. A purpose provides the drive to pursue excellence along with an unwavering belief that your work is of value. When you can take this resolve and turn it into a vocation you achieve a rare and extraordinary feat.
~ Susan Carr, “The Art and Business of Photography”
“earth” without “art” is just “eh” //
“It’s better to say too much //
Than to never to say what you need to say again.”
“The truth is no portrait of substance has people smiling. Look at the history of painting, Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Velasquez, Sargent, Vermeer, DaVinci, etc., the subjects’ gaze to the viewer is neutral at best, neither inviting nor forbidding. It is there for the viewer to see and feel. Smiling is like much of American popular culture, superficial and misleading. It is part of our vernacular, but it should be expunged in photographs.”
– Rodney Smith
“Whatever it is you do in the world, if you can carve out some time to create and to separate yourself from your normal routine, you will be rewarded.”
There is a firm and immediate relationship between risk and reward: If you don’t take a risk, there will be no reward.
This lesson is easy in the abstract, and incredibly difficult when it’s your [whatever] on the line. As we accumulate rewards, in the form of jobs, cars, spouses, and real estate, we forget Continue Reading →
“At one point in life you either have the things you want or the reasons why you don’t.”
Been thinking a lot about creativity and originality lately.
[Creativity] does not result from original parts, but from original thoughts. Creating new processes is at least as valuable as creating new pieces.
It is a mistake to assume that revolution rests on the back of Continue Reading →
