A portrait is never the person. What is captured, I think, is your relationship with the person. – Peter Lindbergh

“In a portrait, I am looking for the silence in somebody.”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” — Francis Bacon

My leaves are ground up and my gutters are clean, just in time for the first snowfall of the season.

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

“In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Get off the couch and go create some art.” — Ben Staley, filmmaker/photographer based in Los Angeles

Tis the season for sitting on Santa’s lap and wishing for an escape.

Luck, it is said, favors the prepared.

The leaves are beginning to turn. Farmers Markets are filled with the summer harvest. ... It’s a perfect opportunity to make some year-end portraits.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what it means to me.

• Otis Redding

“Let Truth Be The Prejudice” — W. Eugene Smith

Light and dark, good and evil, are just aspects of the same thing. — Dan Browning

If you don’t have a darned good reason to say no, say yes.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. — Desiderata, Max Ehrmann c. 1927

A dance is composed by moving from one foot to the other.

The meaning of life is living.

Our time on this earth is short. Let freedom ring.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. –Will Rogers

No one mentioned the gorilla in the room: cancer.