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Sat, 17 May 2008 04:30:01 -0800

Quote of the day:

"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?"

-Bernadette Peters

On the Road

Wed, 7 May 2008 17:25:22 -0800

Website of the day:

The Satorialist

A Christening

Wed, 7 May 2008 17:15:22 -0800

Quote of the day:

"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile." -William Raspberry

An Egg

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:58:45 -0800

Quote of the evening:

"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."

-Cato The Elder

Alana

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:34:22 -0800

Quote of the day:

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

-Henry Timrod

Ariel

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:43:02 -0800

Quote of the day:

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So. I'm back.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 02:49:28 -0800

Holy cow. I haven't posted here since October. Part of the problem was that I forgot my password, and another part was that I wasn't making much, and the stuff I did make was mostly crap; I blame absurdly large amounts of (mostly) college related stress. But that's neither here nor there: I'm back, into college, and feeling creative again (thank God). I've also decided, after much thought (that is, about a minute) that the quotes I put under my photos won't have anything to do with the photo anymore; although I like cerebral photographs, I don't want to force it down the viewer's throat either. Just look. Enjoy.

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply 'must' do things."

-Ray Bradbury

Two Girls at the ATM

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:19:25 -0800

"Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs."

-Bill, in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

The Monarch

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:51:57 -0800

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man's Work

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:53:09 -0800

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White

Giraffe

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:10:50 -0800

"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE." -Ernst Haas

The Fourth

Wed, 4 Jul 2007 05:19:48 -0800

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness." -Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)

Yellow Study

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:46:34 -0800

"Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors."
-Rhys Alexander

Graduation

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:09:51 -0800

"I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy." -Matthew Oliphant

Flower and Suit

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:35:46 -0800

"He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." -Mary Howitt

Red Dance

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:17:19 -0800

It amazes me how time flies, how I find myself sitting here not having posted for almost two months. I apologize for this, I've been very busy both with crew and my photo work for The Exonian and the PEAN. Today I return home, and will be able to concentrate more on my photography. But for now... "I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster." -Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

The Mules and The Car

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:40:03 -0800

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
-Barry Lopez

Cellist

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:39:34 -0800

"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
-George Santayana

Protesting Darfur

Mon, 2 Apr 2007 19:50:36 -0800

"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.": -Unknown

Wildebeast

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:16:39 -0800

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
-Samuel Butler

Elegant

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:05:56 -0800

"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
-William Henry Channing

Angles

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:54:04 -0800

"To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do."
-Waylon Jennings

The Mountain School Sky

Fri, 9 Mar 2007 02:45:18 -0800

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."
-Carl Schurz

...In His Hands

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:09:25 -0800

"A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.": -Unknown

Anitcipation

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:11:40 -0800

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence."
-George F. Will

Goal!

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:08:14 -0800

"It's never just a game when you're winning.": -George Carlin

Dancers

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:10:31 -0800

"All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power."
-Allegra Kent

Tennis Shoes

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:18:06 -0800

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.": -John F. Kennedy

Kenyan Boy

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:42:46 -0800

"Trust one who has gone through it.": -Virgil

Musings at Dusk

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:22:43 -0800

"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down."
-Sara June Parker

Janice

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:48:57 -0800

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-Anne Frank

Kenyan

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:31:01 -0800

"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."

-Juvenal

African Safari

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:19:39 -0800

"The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy."
-Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

The Turkey Guy

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:05:12 -0800

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pond and Pines

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:50:56 -0800

"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Dr. Suess, The Lorax

New York

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:57:45 -0800

"In charity there is no excess.": -Sir Francis Bacon

Bounce Pass

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:32:58 -0800

"One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it."
-Knute Rockne

Barack Obama

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:30:42 -0800

"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."

-Will Rogers

Mississippi Night

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:20:10 -0800

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
-John Howard Payne