Photography Quotes To Inspire
Sep 12, 2024 by Tempe Javitz
Photography Quotes To Inspire
“Resist the urge to capture the perfect. Some of the
images I cherish most are from my simple everyday life—
my kids looking out of their bedroom windows or returning
from the yard covered in mud.” Becky Hale Staff
Photographer, National Geographic.
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Annabelle Johnson with the wind in her hair, ca.1921
“The single most important component of a camera is
the twelve inches behind it.” – Ansel Adams.
Torrey Johnson and his horse contemplate life.
A quote from Robert Capa, photo journalist
extraordinaire:“If your photos aren’t good enough
you aren’t close enough.”
Can you spot the fawn?
“Photography is uniquely suited to documenting change
that happens over such a long period of time it barely
registers in the mind.” From a show at the Phoenix Art
Museum from 3/6/10 to 6/27/2010, curated by Center for
Creative Photography.
This next photo predates cattle trucks when cowboys drove
their cattle directly to the railroad for shipping.
In this case the X4 cattle had to cross the Wolf Mountains
and then swim the Little Horn River to “Spear Siding”
just south of Lodge Grass, Montana before entering
the cattle cars at the railroad.
“There will always be a need to be reminded that beauty
can be found in unlikely places, that we must learn to
see beyond the limits of the conventional and the
expected.” Quote by Linda Gordon in her biography:
Dorothea Lange, A Life Beyond Limits. W.W. Norton
& Company, London & New York, 2009, page 430.
Winter trails through the pines in the Big Horn Mountains.
While you are waiting for more tales about Jessamine
and her family, go read my book, Bighorn Visions, The
Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson.
Exciting news, my book placed second in the non-fiction
category from the Wyoming Historical Society, for books
published in 2023.
Here’s the link for my book:
https://www.sdhspress.com/books/bighorn-visions
“Resist the urge to capture the perfect. Some of the
images I cherish most are from my simple everyday life—
my kids looking out of their bedroom windows or returning
from the yard covered in mud.” Becky Hale Staff
Photographer, National Geographic.
Annabelle Johnson with the wind in her hair, ca.1921
“The single most important component of a camera is
the twelve inches behind it.” – Ansel Adams.
Torrey Johnson and his horse contemplate life.
A quote from Robert Capa, photo journalist
extraordinaire:“If your photos aren’t good enough
you aren’t close enough.”
Can you spot the fawn?
“Photography is uniquely suited to documenting change
that happens over such a long period of time it barely
registers in the mind.” From a show at the Phoenix Art
Museum from 3/6/10 to 6/27/2010, curated by Center for
Creative Photography.
This next photo predates cattle trucks when cowboys drove
their cattle directly to the railroad for shipping.
In this case the X4 cattle had to cross the Wolf Mountains
and then swim the Little Horn River to “Spear Siding”
just south of Lodge Grass, Montana before entering
the cattle cars at the railroad.
“There will always be a need to be reminded that beauty
can be found in unlikely places, that we must learn to
see beyond the limits of the conventional and the
expected.” Quote by Linda Gordon in her biography:
Dorothea Lange, A Life Beyond Limits. W.W. Norton
& Company, London & New York, 2009, page 430.
Winter trails through the pines in the Big Horn Mountains.
While you are waiting for more tales about Jessamine
and her family, go read my book, Bighorn Visions, The
Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson.
Exciting news, my book placed second in the non-fiction
category from the Wyoming Historical Society, for books
published in 2023.
Here’s the link for my book:
https://www.sdhspress.com/books/bighorn-visions
