Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Photography
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. – Duane Michals Category: Photography
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams Category: Photography
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Fathers
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! – Henry David Thoreau Category: Breastfeeding
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. – Joanna Trollope Category: respect
