08 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



"If knowledge was really power, every librarian on earth would be filthy rich."
-- anonymous

01 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



“Have you seen a young person reading a newspaper recently?”
--Anonymous

25 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



"There is nothing permanent except change."
-Heraclitus

18 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes




“All things technology evolve the same way. They become smaller, sleeker, better designed, more portable and carry more information.”

-Andy Grove, Former CEO of Intel Corporation,

11 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag -

04 Aug, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French Photographer, 1908-2004)


27 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing." — Lance Armstrong

21 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success."
Arianna Huffington


14 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"...People pictures: If you are just shooting the passing scene, people don't care. 'Grab shots' tend to look as though a sneak took them. Eye contact makes all the difference in a good image. You are the exploiter - You are "taking" something. ...- it isn't called "taking pictures" for nothing! - Anonymous

16 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain"

---Leo Durocher

09 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.” Anonymous


01 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Here’s to the craziest ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… they push the human race forward because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

25 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



" If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."

Richard Avedon




18 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Frederic Chopin

12 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"Look and think before clicking he shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
Yousuf Karsh


05 May, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“What is a good photograph? I cannot say. A photograph is tied to the time, what is good today may be a cliché tomorrow. The problem of the photographer is to discover his own language, a visual ABC. The picture represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera. This disease of our age is boredom and a good photographer must combat it. The way to do this is by invention – by surprise. When I say a good picture has surprise value I mean that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me. The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding clichés. Imitation is the greatest danger of the young photographer.” - Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]


28 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"If a photographer comes onto my property, I have the right to shoot him!"
Does Jon really intend on shooting anyone? Probably not -- but this quote is an easy way to grab headlines now that Kate is off "Dancing with the Stars." It may have also been his way of getting rid of some frustration from what could have been a difficult day. http://www.examiner.com/x-11363-TV-Examiner~y2010m4d25-Jon-and-Kate-Plus-8-Jon-Gosselin-reportedly-threatens-to-shoot-paparazzi

20 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“I want to find out first what the customer thinks the image is worth, and what he has in his budget for this project.”
Henry Scanlon, former president of Comstock NYC


13 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“People with drive get more done than people with talent…” – H.T. White


07 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. “Robert Capa


30 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
Ernst Haas



23 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in people and in travel; these things plus his precise feeling for geometrical relationships determine the type of pictures he takes best. What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently. A good picture must be a completely individual expression which intrigues the viewer and forces him to think. "

- Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]


10 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"You can observe a lot by just watching. "-
Yogi Berra

02 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come…”
Victor Hugo, author


23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable”.

- Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]


16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. - Eve Arnold

09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn




Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity. - Anonymous


03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Hobby became passion, passion became profession (Shokh hoechhe nesha, nesha hoeche pesha),"
Chanchal Mahmood, photographer.


27 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Player


20 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.” - Edward Abbey


12 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



"When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams

06 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
- Ansel Adams


22 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle." -- George Lucas (Creator of Star Wars)

15 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



“Finding the right subject is the hardest part.”
- Mary Ellen Mark

08 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



“Like in Hollywood, you don’t pitch a movie idea, you pitch a business opportunity. Then the producer will listen to you. – H.T. White

02 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
- Francis Bacon {1561-1626 English Philosopher}


24 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



“If you’ve got a good wife, you’ve got a good personal trainer.”

H.T. White

17 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. -

Susan Sontag -


11 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn




All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

- Susan Sontag,


03 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn




"The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe, I try to entertain, but above all, I want pictures that are emotional. "

- Elliott Erwitt