15 Selected Photographs at Home

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15 Selected Photographs at Home  

Living with Nature, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 

Dr Abe V Rotor

“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”– Martin Parr

Ingenuity Unlimited.

(Harvesting karamay or gooseberry with inverted umbrella.)

“We must avoid snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Spring coming out from a wall seems real. 

“Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, 

no matter how it is achieved.” – Bill Brandt

Cats napping on a clear day by a waterfall on the wall.

“In photography, there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
– August Sander

Friends by an old tower while away time 

imagining the scene is real.

“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”– Annie Leibovitz

It's easy to catch a bird on the wall;

it's there roosting forever.

“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things 

familiar and familiar things new.” – William Thackeray

Who is afraid of the deer,

when it exists nevermore?

“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?”

– Edward Weston

This young lass asks for guidance from the risen Christ. 

“The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over 

the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”– Anne Geddes

Relaxing in an art gallery on an easy chair.

is indeed a real pastime.

“The pictures are there, and you just take them.”

– Robert Capa

Pets and master are one in work and leisure.

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”

– Robert Capa

Hen poses before a mural like in a show.

“A photograph is like a recipe - memory the finished dish.”

– Carrie Latet

Give way to the marching flock;

quack-quack, quack-quack. 

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”– Gilles Peress

Aestivating toad in a long, hot summer.

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”

– Peter Adams

Waning moon is full of superstitious beliefs.

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”– Ansel Adams

Driftwood art: Philippine eagle and Noah's crow are both endangered.

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also

 look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”– Joan Miro

 

Red velvet guppy sunbathing.

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” – Dorothea Lange